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Exclusive: Global streamer Mubi has taken worldwide Svod rights (excl. Spain) to Little Hands, Rémi Allier’s short film that is in the running for this year’s Live Action Short Film Oscar.

The pic screened at Telluride and also won last year’s César short film award in France. It tells the story of a factory employee who, upon discovering that the management is closing down his workplace, kidnaps the toddler of the director in order to negotiate.

It was produced by Benoît Roland (Wrong Men) and Pauline Seigland and Lionel Massol (Film Grand Huit). Wim Wenders and Dario Suter (Dcm) are executive producers.

The deal was struck between François Morisset from Salaud Morisset, a regular distributor of short films, and Kevin Chan from Mubi.

Paris and Berlin based Salaud Morisset has previously worked on Guy Nattiv’s 2019 Live Action Short Oscar-winning film Skin, Ladj Li’s short Les Miserables,...

Works from Romania, Belgium, France, Czech Republic, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom feature in the shortlists for Live Action, Animated and Documentary Short Film. Along with the shortlists for the International Feature Film and Documentary Feature Film categories (read the news), the 92nd Academy Awards have announced the selection of short films that will vie for a nomination in their respective categories - and Europe is well represented among them. In the Live Action Short Film category, from the 191 titles initially qualified, 10 have made the cut. A highlight of the selection is The Christmas Gift by Romanian director Bogdan Muresanu, which has just been named European Short Film at the European Film Awards. Along with it, we can find Belgian title A Sister, directed by Delphine Girard, French productions Little Hands by Rémi Allier (co-produced with Belgium) and Nefta Football Club by Yves Piat (co-produced...

The Oscar shortlist released Monday for live action shorts offers a range of socially relevant and hot-button issues, including children and families in jeopardy, transgender identity, immigration, off-beat love stories, and animal shenanigans.

There are two French shorts about kids in jeopardy: In “Little Hands,” from Rémi Allier, the toddler son of a chemical factory director is abducted by a radical factory worker in a desperate attempt to keep the factory from closing. And, in Yves Pia’s feel-good comedy, “Nefta Football Club,” two boys intrude on a big drug score when they stumble on a donkey with headphones in the middle of the desert between Tunisia and Algeria.

Continuing with the family theme, “The Christmas Gift,” the Romanian short from Bogdan Muresanu, turns a family upside down when a young boy mails a letter to Santa during the brutal Ceausescu regime in 1989, asking for the dictator’s death. “Saria,...

Other winners at the cinematography festival in Poland included Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity.Scroll down for full list of winners

Competition winners at Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, were revealed today as the 21st edition came to a close with a gala awards celebration at the Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

The winner of the top prize - the Golden Frog - went to Polish drama Ida, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, the latest in a string of top awards for the film.

Ida cinematographers Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski accepted the award.

The film stars newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska opposite Polish star Agata Kulesza in the story of a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.

It marks the first Polish-language film for Warsaw-born British filmmaker Pawlikowski, best known for...