CANNES: The Cannes Film Festivals is not only about the big names from cinema. And this is evident from the Cinéfondation that Gilles Jacob and Pierre Viot created in 1998 to promote the discovery of a new generation of filmmakers. An official selection of school films was therefore presented during the Festival. This year, 17 films from Australia, Asia, Europe, North America and South America were selected from the 1100 submitted.

The Jury presided by Andrei Konchalovsky and composed of Sandrine Bonnaire, Tim Burton, Daniel Brühl, Souleymane Cisse and Zbigniew Preisner awarded prizes to the following films:

1st Prize:- GE & ZETA - directed by Gustavo Riet, Universidad del Cine, Argentina

2nd Prize:- MR. SCHWARTZ, MR. HAZEN & MR. HORLOCKER - directed by Stefan Mueller, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, Germany

Joint 3rd Prize: - MOTHER, directed by Siân Heder,American Film Institute, USA

A VÍRUS- directed by Ágnes Kocsis, Színház- és Filmmuvészeti Egyetem, Hungary.