Florian Fernandez

Holding a Master’s degree in Film Studies, Florian has coordinated the various industry initiatives elaborated as part of the SFC | Rendez-vous Industry for ten years, before becoming, in 2024, head of this four-day forum organised by the Festival de Cannes. The event aims to highlight short and first-feature film projects, emerging talent, and facilitate interactions between filmmakers and the industry. Florian is also a programming consultant for Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) and an associate programmer at SXSW for the Documentary Shorts.

He formerly served on the Encounters Film Festival pre-selection team for several years, was a distribution consultant for The Short Film Lab (Argentina), and was Head of Short Film Hub at Drama Int’l Short Film Festival (Greece), where he launched a residency program for projects in development in 2024. Since 2023, he has partnered with Solal Films to handle the festival distribution and sales of a handful of short films featuring unique voices. He also collaborates yearly with various initiatives, such as European Short Pitch.

Florian Fernandez participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Florian Fernandez’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Black Panthers Agnès Varda France 1968 28’

Special shoutout to Ulysse as well! Even if my favs will always be Daguerréotypes, Les Plages d'Agnès, and Jacquot de Nantes, but they are all features
 
Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog Alain Resnais France 1955 32’
The Hand 手 Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong 2020 56’

Antology film (Eros) made of three shorts.
Bear Nash Edgerton USA 2011 11’
D’un château l’autre Emmanuel Marre Belgium 2018 40’
All These Creatures Charles Williams Australia 2018 13’

I can't help but crying every time I'm seeing this one. It's rare a fiction really engages me that much. The way it talks about people that society, or a so-called community, tends to exclude. People who are marginalized and dismissed as if they are mad, despite the fact that their sensitivity & soul are far more vivid. It reminds us to care about others on an emotional level and that it's rather the world - and not those marginalized people - that is not running smoothly.
Love, Dad Milý tati Diana Cam Van Nguyen Czech Republic, Slovakia 2021 13’
Le mal des ardents Ardent Other Alice Brygo France 2023 16’

Through the intertwining of personal thoughts—sometimes controversial, sometimes sensitive, sometimes problematic, sometimes genuine—the film manages to capture the inner feelings of the protagonists at a given moment in the form of a moving photograph. Political and human, plastic, and with a particularly memorable visual approach, the film, rooted in an unsettled everyday life, offers an overview of a moment where everything can shift—as capable of shaping the future as vanishing in an instant.
The Oasis I Deserve Inès Sieulle France 2024 22’
Common Pear Gregor Božič Slovenia, United Kingdom 2025 15’

Deeply rooted in the real world—pointing out personal, environmental and therefore political matters—yet creating its own and unique dystopian tale by blending fiction into documentary (something that is sometimes tricky to me and can lead to way too staged approaches), Common Pear is a smooth and honest journey that cares equally about the cinematographic medium and those who inhabit the film.