Submit a film

Submissions are to done via Shortfilmdepot only.
Please complete the entry form, upload your film to the platform and submit to “Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand”.
There is no registration for the Lab Competition since the films will be chosen from those entered into the National and International competitions.

No preview links are accepted. Only uploaded films & submissions via Shortfilmdepot are accepted.

We do not accept DVDs. Only preview files (.mp4) can be uploaded via Shortfilmdepot.

If your film is in French, no subtitles are requested for the submission process.

If your film is in English, adding English subtitles is preferred.

If your film is not in English or in French, please subtitle it in one of these two languages.

-> For subtitles’ information regarding the selected films, please refer to our regulations.

You can submit as many films as you want.

Unfortunately no, you cannot re-submit a film that has already been submitted to the festival in the past (even if the new edit is very different from the first).

This includes films that filmmakers decided to send as works-in-progress.

The time limit for the International Competition is 40 minutes & 59 minutes for the National (French) Competition.

We do not accept late entries.

Yes.

We will personally contact the selected filmmakers & the submitters the first week of December.
The list of selected films will be published shortly after on our website.
Non-selected films will be notified by email and their Shortfilmdepot account will be updated accordingly.

Submission fee = €13
+ Delivery costs = 1 Shortfilmdepot stamp

This is a flat fee throughout the submission process, there are no early bird discounts.

There are no refunds in case your film is not eligible or selected. Therefore, please carefully check the regulations before submitting & check with your team (distributor, production, filmmaker or film school) to see if your film has already been submitted.

Waivers are not available, however a 50% discount is reserved to film schools, distribution companies or film promotion institutions that would like to submit more than one film, by different directors. To benefit from this discount, the account submitting must be the one of the school, distribution company or film promotion institution. Individual accounts cannot benefit from it. The organization reserves the right to not consider submissions that do not fill these criteria.

Any queries shall be sent to the submissions desk at the festival via email submissions@clermont-filmfest.org