Anna, a short film by Israeli director Or Sinai, took home first place in the student competition at Cannes Film Festival on Friday.
The 24-minute-long film was shown at the Cinéfondation, and beat out 17 other finalists. Sinai’s win is a considerable achievement, seeing as there were no less than 2, 350 other student films from 277 film schools from around the world in the competition.
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Starring Evgenia Dudina as Anna, the movie is based on a woman who has some alone time without her son for the first time in a long time. As she goes on a solo journey around her town, she tries to find a man whom she can be with, even if only for a short while.
Anna was Sinai’s graduation film, having completed her studies at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem.
As an award for winning best picture, Sinai received €15, 000 and a guarantee that her first feature-length film, when completed, will be screened at the festival.
The second-place winner was an Iranian filmmaker who studied at the London Film School.
