Canadian short films join Cannes lineup

Two more Canadian films, both of them shorts, have been added to next month’s Cannes Film Festival lineup.

Tesla: Lumière mondiale, by Matthew Rankin, promises to be electrifying. Set in the New York of 1905, it makes what’s billed as a “spectacular” imagining of a lastditch funding appeal by visionary inventor Nikola Tesla to his wealthy benefactor, J.P. Morgan.

Möbius, a Canada/U.S. co-production by Sam Kuhn, is described as “a moth-eaten tale of magic and mutation, half-remembered by a teen poet whose beloved lies lifeless in a stream.” The two films will screen in competition. Peter Howell