Lucas Acher’s ‘Laser-Cat’ Wins the Cannes Festival’s La Cinef Best Short Award

May 21, 2026 9:38am PT Lucas Acher’s ‘Laser-Cat’ Wins the Cannes Festival’s La Cinef Best Short Award

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We have a winner! Lucas Acher’s “Laser-Cat” has come out on top of La Cinef section at Cannes.

For its 29th edition, La Cinef has selected 14 live-action and 5 animated shorts from among the 2,750 sent by film schools all over the world. 

Directed by 12 women and 9 men, they represent 15 countries and four continents. Two of the schools are invited for the first time: Hongik University (South Korea) and ISAMM (Tunisia).

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