Film Awards

1960 Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or - Best Short Film WinnerLe sourireSerge BourguignonIn the year that Cannes Film Festival handed out awards to Federico Fellini for La Dolce Vita, L'avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni, and Kagi by Kon Ichikawa -- 'Le Sourire' won the Palm ...Amazon

1958 Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or - Best Short Film WinnerLa Joconde: Histoire d'une obsessionHenri GruelThis is the story of an obsession. Mona Lisa keeps smiling quizzically while our poor hero is pursued by her representation in all its forms, in all places. She smiles at him in a museum, ...AmazonThe Seine Meets ParisJoris IvensQuotidian scenes of Paris along the quays beside the River Seine. Fishing, snoozing, cutting hair, washing clothes. Lovers embrace as nuns gaze. Students sketch, models pose. A diver ...AmazonO saisons, ô châteauxAgnès VardaAmazon

1957 Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or - Best Short Film WinnerA Brief HistoryIon Popescu-GopoThis 1957 Romanian short animation and Cannes Film Festival winner skilfully and with incredible artistic expression manages to condense the entire narrative of human evolutionary theory ...Amazon

1956 Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or - Best Short Film WinnerThe Red BalloonAlbert LamorisseA red balloon with a life of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.Amazon

1955 Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or - Best Short Film WinnerBlinkity BlankNorman McLarenThe surreal story of a bird and its cage with both their conflict and union.Amazon

1953 Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or - Best Short Film WinnerWhite ManeAlbert LamorisseIn the Camargue, France, a young boy bonds with a white haired horse that escaped from ranchers.Amazon