Bus Story, The Cake, The Drunkard's Walk, And Voyage Spatial Go To ClujShorts

A new edition of the ClujShorts (Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania) is about to be opened just today, Monday 3rd April, and will count on the participation of four shorts promoted by [ The House of Films ]: Bus Story by Jorge Yúdice, The Cake (La tarta) by Fernando Sánchez, The Drunkard's Walk (El andar del borracho) by Pol Armengol, and Voyage Spatial (Viaje espacial intergaláctico) by Guillermo A. Chaia.

The short films Bus Story by Jorge Yúdice, The Cake (La tarta) by Fernando Sánchez, The Drunkard's Walk (El andar del borracho) by Pol Armengol, and Voyage Spatial (Viaje espacial intergaláctico) by Guillermo A. Chaia are about to begin their participation at the 5th ClujShorts 2017 International Short Film Festival, which is annually held in the town of Cluj-Napoca (Transylvania, Romania). The ClujShorts of the current year 2017 is starting today, Monday 3rd April, and will end on Sunday 9th.

The screening of these short films are scheduled according to the following timetable:

In total, the ClujShorts 2017 has selected 158 short films from the submitted ones. Four of this selected films are, of course, Bus Story by Jorge Yúdice, The Cake by Fernando Sánchez, The Drunkard's Walk by Pol Armengol, and Voyage Spatial by Guillermo A. Chaia. The 158 selected shorts, including the four short films promoted at film festivals by [ The House of Films ], are going to compete for the Audience Award of the current fifth edition of the ClujShorts.

Bus Story by Jorge Yúdice

The Cake by Fernando Sánchez

The Drunkard's Walk by Pol Armengol

Voyage Spatial by Guillermo A. Chaia

For their part, the Jury of the ClujShorts 2017 has just nominated 52 international short films for fighting in the Official Competition of this edition. These finalists will fight for the rest of the awards of this festival and among them, also The Drunkard's Walk, the short film directed by Pol Armengol, which has entered into this year's Official Competition.

The 52 finalists of this edition are: 4 1/2 Simturi by Raluca Gorgos & Ion Arama (Romania), 40 aniversario by J. Enrique Sánchez (Spain), Anna by Alexia Rubod, Antoine Poyard, Jordann Jacobé, Alexis Choquard, Sophie Bracmard & Yunhan Liu (France), Atopia by Luís Azevedo & Alexandre Marinho (Portugal), Backstory by Joschka Laukeninks (Germany), Balcony by Toby Fell-Holden (United Kingdom), Blight by Brian Deane (Ireland), Braček Jelenček by Zuzana Žiaková (Slovakia), Bruce by Adam Etheridge (United Kingdom), Burned by Jaime Valdueza (Spain / USA), Campingliv by Ina Lerner Grevstad (Norway), Chika, die hündin im ghetto by Sandra Schießl (Germany), Cuenta con nosotros by Pablo Vara (Spain), Libelula by Mihai Salajan & Adelina Bulibasa (Romania), Farewell by Chen Yang Hsu, Adeline Jacquot, Paul Jourdain, Alan Sorio & Eléa Trahay (France), Fata Morgana by Amelie Wen (USA / China), Food, First by Pol Ponsarnau (Germany), Zu ihrer eigenen sicherheit by Florian Heinzen-Ziob (Germany), Puppenspiel by Ares Ceylan (Switzerland), George by David Coudyser (France), Srečno, Orlo! by Sara Kern (Slovakia), Hausarrest by Matthias Sahli (Switzerland), Hypnotism For Love by Hiroki Inoue (Japan), Entre la tierra by Sofía Quirós Úbeda (Argentina / Costa Rica / Chile), Strana udehe by Ivan Golovnev (Russia), Last Call Lenny by Julien Lasseur (USA), Nez en moins disait Cléopâtre by Chams Chitou,Charlotte Lebreton, Lucie Loiseau, Mikahel Meah, Maxime Monier, Marc Razafindralambo, Aymeric Rondol, Jonathan Salvi & Anthony Trefleze (France), Lesson Unlearned 14\41 by Nina Vedmitskaya (Russia), Luxna by Anthony Bonnard, Abdelkader Alihadef, Juliette Dominguez, Timothé Claeys, Hugo Falaize & Vincent Barré (France), Manuel by Bruno Carnide (São Tomé and Príncipe / Portugal), Memories Of You by Bart Schrijver (Netherlands), Mikelis by Marc Bethke (Germany), Mein freund der deutsche by Bilal Bahadir (Germany), Sans Mobile Fixe by Jerome Peters (Belgium), Ici, personne ne meurt by Simon Panay (France), Old Iron Woman by Anastasia Polukhina (Russia), Operation Commando by Jan Czarlewski (Switzerland), Peony Pavilion by Sido Yao Lu (China / USA), Va banque by Stefan Plepp & Christine Kabisch (Germany), Semele by Myrsini Aristidou (Cyprus), Grekh by Tamilla Slichenko (Russia), The Breed by Guillem Ventura (Spain), The Drunkard's Walk by Pol Armengol (Spain), В стороне by Alexandra Averyanova (Russia), The Orchestra by Mikey Hill (Australia), Le plombier by Xavier Séron & Méryl Fortunat-Rossi (Belgium), La tragedia de rodar una película by Israel de la Rosa (Spain), Die Hochzeitspolizei by Rogier Hardeman (Germany), Cutia albă by Mihai Pacurar (Romania), Du sollst nicht lügen by Sascha Zimmermann (Germany), We Fly Again by Alexandru Vlad (Romania), and Zero M2 by Matthieu Landour (France).

As for the 158 short films nominated at this festival, these are the titles chosen by the ClujShorts 2017: 702 by Rodrigo Lages (Brazil), (a) Vous regardez un film by Jon Boutin (France), (Otto) by Job, Joris & Marieke (Netherlands), [Out Of Fra]Me by Sophie Linnenbaum (Germany), 4 1/2 Simturi by Raluca Gorgos & Ion Arama (Romania), 40 aniversario by J. Enrique Sánchez (Spain), A New Home by Ziga Virc (Slovakia), Adila by Rubén Llama yAlejandro Manzano (Spain), Après les cendres by Eduardo Sosa Soria (France), Toate fluviile curg în mare by Alexandru Badea (Romania), All The World's A Stage by Hannes Rall (Germany / Singapore), Ami by Gonzalo San Vicente (Germany), Anna by Alexia Rubod, Antoine Poyard, Jordann Jacobé, Alexis Choquard, Sophie Bracmard & Yunhan Liu (France), Asteria by Alexandre Arpentinier, Mathieu Blanchys, Lola Grand, Tristan Lamarca, Thomas Lemaille & Jean-Charles Lusseau (France), Atopia by Luís Azevedo & Alexandre Marinho (Portugal), Backstory by Joschka Laukeninks (Germany), Balcony by Toby Fell-Holden (United Kingdom), Bikeportraits by Sashko Danylenko (Ukraine), Billy & Bud by Charlotte Arnoult, Françoise Brès, Caroline Marcel, Céline Hautbout & Louise Baron (France), Blight by Brian Deane (Ireland), Boat People by Paul Meschùh (Germany / Austria), Braček jelenček by Zuzana Žiaková (Slovakia), Bruce by Adam Etheridge (United Kingdom), Burned by Jaime Valdueza (Spain / USA), Bus Story by Jorge Yúdice (Spain), L'ombra di Caino by Antonio De Palo (Italy), Campingliv by Ina Lerner Grevstad (Norway), Alto el juego by Walter Tournier (Uruguay), Chandra by Asmita Shrish & Fateme Ahmadi (Nepal), Chika, die hündin im ghetto by Sandra Schießl (Germany), Classmate by Javier Marco (Spain), Garderobshitsa by Ekaterina Golubeva-Poldi (Russia), Coming Full Circle by Kim Yaged (USA), Cuenta con nosotros by Pablo Vara (Spain), El vuelo de los cangrejos by Inti Torres & Bhima Gandica (Venezuela), Disco by Boris Seewald (Germany), Dot by Tali Barde (Germany), Libelula by Mihai Salajan & Adelina Bulibasa (Romania), Einstein-Rosen by Olga Osorio (Spain), Ernestine & Kit by Simon Bird (United Kingdom), Farewell by Chen Yang Hsu, Adeline Jacquot, Paul Jourdain, Alan Sorio & Eléa Trahay (France), Fata Morgana by Amelie Wen (USA / China), Flash by Marius Georgescu (Romania), Food, First by Pol Ponsarnau (Germany), Zu ihrer eigenen sicherheit by Florian Heinzen-Ziob (Germany), Foxglove by Brian Deane (Ireland), Puppenspiel by Ares Ceylan (Switzerland), From San Francisco With Love by Yohann Kouam (France), Fruit by Gerhard Funk (Germany), George by David Coudyser (France), Golden Love by Pavlo Ostrikov (Ukraine), Srečno, Orlo! by Sara Kern (Slovenia), Groomed by Samantha Armiger (USA), Grounded by Lucas Durkheim (France), Home by More Raca (Kosovo), Hounds by Omer Tobi (Israel), Hausarrest by Matthias Sahli (Switzerland), Hypnotism For Love by Hiroki Inoue (Japan), Ya no te quiero by Francisco Hervada Martín (Spain), Imedium by Alfonso García López (Spain), Indice 50 by Joseph Guené, Alexandre Belmudes, Damien Clef, Sylvain Amblard, Mégane Fumel & Mathieu Peters-Houg (France), Entre la tierra by Sofía Quirós Úbeda (Argentina / Costa Rica / Chile), Ioana by Simon Pfister (Switzerland), Irina Im Wunderland by Silvana Ceschi & Arnulfo Gonzalez (Switzerland), It's Happy Hour Out There by Daniel Melguizo (Spain / USA), Jubilé by Coralie Soudet, Charlotte Piogé, Marion Duvert, Marie El Kadiri & Agathe Marmion (France), Just The Beginning by Abraham López Guerrero (Spain), Keiro by Tatiana Juskewicz, Benoît Leloup, Franck Menigoz, Zoé Nérot & Charlotte Poncin (France), Knight To Meet You by Antoine Fromager, Laurie Bogdel, Loïc Resplandy, Lucas Godineau, Mathieu Astruc & Nicolas Canot (France), Strana udehe by Ivan Golovnev (Russia), Las Meninas by Daniel Beres (Austria), Last Call Lenny by Julien Lasseur (USA), Nez en moins disait Cléopâtre by Chams Chitou, Charlotte Lebreton, Lucie Loiseau, Mikahel Meah, Maxime Monier, Marc Razafindralambo, Aymeric Rondol, Jonathan Salvi & Anthony Trefleze (France), Lesson Unlearned 14\41 by Nina Vedmitskaya (Russia), Libby by Juanan Martínez (Spain), Lost And Found by Claudia Seibl (Germany), Lyubov est by Tamilla Slichenko (Russia), Luxna by Anthony Bonnard, Abdelkader Alihadef, Juliette Dominguez, Timothé Claeys, Hugo Falaize & Vincent Barré (France), Malgrin Debotté by Morgane Marinos, Claire Brodelle, Cindy Kinadjian, Clarisse Valeix (France), Manuel by Bruno Carnide (São Tomé and Príncipe / Portugal), Meli-Metro by Alexandre Blain, Lucas Germain, Christophe Gigot, Jade Guilbault, Andreas Muller & Simon Puculek (France), Memories Of You by Bart Schrijver (Netherlands), Mikelis by Marc Bethke (Germany), Millimeterle by Pascal Reinmann (Switzerland), Monument by Alan Geoy (Singapore), Mein freund der deutsche by Bilal Bahadir (Germany), Mon dernier été by Paul-Claude Demers (Canada), My Life I Don'T Want by Nyan Kyal Say (Myanmar), Arumim by Yoram Sachs (Israel), Nicole’s Cage by Josef Brandl (Germany), Sans mobile fixe by Jerome Peters (Belgium), Hichkas by Elham Toroghi (Iran), Ici, personne ne meurt by Simon Panay (France), Rien ne va plus by Marc Schmidheiny & Christoph Daniel (Germany), Old Iron Woman by Anastasia Polukhina (Russia), Operation Commando by Jan Czarlewski (Switzerland), Our Father by Calum Rhys (United Kingdom), Our Wonderful Nature - The Common Chameleon by Tomer Eshed (Germany), Paläontologie by Pablo Callisaya (Switzerland), Peony Pavilion by Sido Yao Lu (China / USA), Phantom Limb by Michalis Felanis (Greece), Pleased To Meet You! by Fairouz M’Silti (France), Preston by Gabriel Amar, Louis Doucerain, Joseph Heu, William Marcere, Térence Tieu & Morgane Vaast (France), Red Dawn by Vincent Boulot, Jean Burtschell, Romain Couturiaux, Guillaume Deleuze & Sébastien Leclerc (France), Registratorsha by Daria Razumnikova (Russia), Va banque by Stefan Plepp & Christine Kabisch (Germany), Rm10 by Emir Ezwan (Malaysia), Robeth by Kevin T. Landry (Canada), Schroot by Anthony Van Roosendael (Belgium), Selfiecat by Geoffrey Assie, Emeline Bernard & Elsa Divet (France), Semele by Myrsini Aristidou (Cyprus), Sheep Deprived by Stacy Coakley (USA), Grekh by Tamilla Slichenko (Russia), Sirocco by Avril Hug, Lauren Madec, Kevin Tarpinian, Thomas Lopez & Romain Garcia (France), Stream Of Doubts by Joseph Catté (France), Tanazo by Masoud Hatami (Iran), L’aviatrice by Jacques Leyreloup, Victor Tolila, Perrine Renard, Laura Viver Canal & Gaël Chauvet (France), The Bookartist by Christine Nippoldt (Germany), The Breed by Guillem Ventura (Spain), The Cake by Fernando Sánchez (Spain), The Chop by Lewis Rose (United Kingdom), La cour by Estelle Costedoat, Antoine Engels, Julien Fradin, Florian Gourdin, Pierre-Edouard Mérien & Olivier Royer (France), The Disappearance Of Willie Bingham by Matthew Richards (Australia), The Drunkard's Walk by Pol Armengol (Spain), El audífono by Samuel Quiles (Spain), В стороне by Alexandra Averyanova (Russia), Le fruit du désir by Thierry Pradervand (Switzerland), The Manliest Man by Anuj Gulati (India), La melodía del mal by Miguel Ángel Durán (Spain), The Orchestra by Mikey Hill (Australia), The Passenger by Orlane Brouillet, Claire D’Intorni, Antoine Mariez, Lucie Martinetto, Réda Mehleb & Eva Seyeux (France), Le plombier by Xavier Séron & Méryl Fortunat-Rossi (Belgium), The School Bag by Dheeraj Jindal (India), La noche de todos los santos by Gustavo Vallecas (Spain), The Show by Simon Auquier, Cécile Cazes, Yann Madec & Hadrien Ottevaere (France), U scriusciu du mari by Fabien Collet, Fanny De Carvalho, Arnaud Douzal, James Nardelli, Lea Rossi & Zarah Towey (France), Le steak de tante Margaux by Sameh Alaa (France), La tragedia de rodar una película by Israel de la Rosa (Spain), Οι επισκεπτες by Theo Papadoulakis (Greece), Die hochzeitspolizei by Rogier Hardeman (Germany), Cutia albă by Mihai Pacurar (Romania), Ipler by Gokce Pehlivanoglu (Turkey), They Will All Die In Space by Javier Chillon (Spain), Du sollst nicht lügen by Sascha Zimmermann (Germany), Time Lapse by Christian Avilés (Spain), Ad vitam aeternam by Benoit Madeleine, Clément Guihard, Clément Poulain, Guillaume Letourneur & Raphaël Bellino (France), Croyez-moi, j'ai l'oeil by Clement Clareton (France), Upír by Laura Rembault (France), Voyage Spatial by Guillermo A. Chaia (Canada), Camino de agua para un pez by Mercedes Marro (Spain / Colombia), We Fly Again by Alexandru Vlad (Romania), ¿Señor o señorito? by Cristina Piernas & Victoria Ruiz (Spain), What Do You See? by Scott Willis (United Kingdom), Wo Warst Du by Katja Benrath (Germany), Am Ende Der Wald by Felix Ahrens (Germany), Tú no eres el más fuerte by Emilio Yebra (Spain), Zero by David Victori (Spain), and Zero M2 by Matthieu Landour (France).

This selection consists of short films produced in France (34), Spain (22 plus 3 co-productions), Germany (21 plus 2 co-productions), Russia (8), Switzerland (8), USA (4 plus 4 co-productions), United Kingdom (6), Romania (6), Belgium (3), Canada (3), Australia (2), Slovakia (2), Greece (2), Netherlands (2), India (2), Iran (2), Ireland (2), Israel (2), Ukraine (2), Austria (1 plus 1 co-production), Singapore (1 plus 1 co-production), Brazil (1), China (2 co-productions), Cyprus (1), Slovenia (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Kosovo (1), Malaysia (1), Myanmar (1), Nepal (1), Norway (1), Portugal (1), Turkey (1), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (1), Argentina (1 co-production), Chile (1 co-production), Colombia (1 co-production), Costa Rica (1 co-production), Portugal (1 co-production), and São Tomé and Príncipe (1 co-production).

The ClujShorts 2017 will announced its winners coming Saturday 8th April at 19:00 hours.