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"Atom Egoyan has said that short films and full length features are &amp;quot;different languages&amp;quot;. The Chloe director and head of the Short Film Competition jury at this year&amp;#039;s Cannes festival made the comments in an interview with the event&amp;#039;s official website. Egoyan said: &amp;quot;They are two different languages. There is the short film used as a calling card for a feature and the short filmmaker who is really happy in this form, and who doesn\u2019t necessarily have the desire to make feature films. &amp;quot;So, there are people who make entire careers with short films, just as there are writers who make their careers with short stories. So I don&amp;#039;t think that the short film is necessarily a ticket to a longer work.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;Those early films that I did were structured as short films. They are important for me because that&amp;#039;s how I learnt my craft. I didn&amp;#039;t go to film school so these films were an apprenticeship for me. &amp;quot;And when I&amp;#039;ve gone back in my career to make short films, they were for specific commissions. I had to harness my sensibility, but to be honest, as an artist, I find my form is a longer film format. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s very challenging to tell a short film properly. When I was in the jury last time, we were also judging the short films and I was astonished to see how beautiful this work was. It&amp;#039;s something very rare.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Click here for our review of this year&amp;#039;s Short Film Competition at Cannes "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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