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Before landing in the month of Mars, we offer you in February a constellation of films about space. After last year’s ride on the bicycle so dear to Armstrong (Lance), we will now take a trip to the Moon that was so dear to another Armstrong (Neil), a voyage to that stellar suburb so delightfully presented in 1985 by Stéphane Drouot1, a veritable shooting star […]

Sweden, with its wide open spaces, its countless lakes, its cities hidden within vast forests… That is the forlorn atmosphere where solitary figures like Lisa Munth (Parasiten) and Jonas Selberg (Höstmannen) have every reason to waste away. And then there is fifteen-year-old Hanna, who is determined not to be done in by boredom in the midst of this isolation: let’s face it, when you’re […]

Thursday 11th February 2016 at 18h30 and 21h Petit Vélo (Clermont-Ferrand) Price : 30 €   Tickets available from 22 September at the Espace Victoire, Clermont-Ferrand, also on line.     An event not to be missed!   At the next Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, which will take place from 5 to 13 February 2016, Kube will stage a concert featuring the group […]

Call for Entries for the International Short Film Festival. Selected authors will get the chance to pitch their project during one on one meeting with potential producers. Free pass will be provided for the winners.   Click here to download the Call for Entries. [*PDF]   All submissions must be received by November 20th, 2016 at midnight (French time)!   Contact : Maison des Scénaristes. […]

  © Christophe Agou   Our turn to be confronted with silence. Christophe Agou passed away on 16th September in New York. A self-taught photographer, native of the Forez, Christophe Agou agreed to be part of our lab jury in 2012 and although his illness prevented him from travelling to Clermont, his work, photographs of men and women farmers he had taken over a […]

Dog Days   The new poster is here! A bit later than usual for sure, but it was worth waiting for July to unveil this summertime snapshot, away from the winds of winter.   Blutch, the famous French-born illustrator whose talent is only rivalled by his passion for cinema, offers us this dreamlike escape in pastel colors, an intimate interpretation of the event that […]

A forest of talent   “Love and war” by Fredrik Emilson (Sweden, 2006)    Swedish cinema is in great shape: series, detective stories, feature films, documentaries and short films enjoy a great reputation on the international scene.     In Clermont-Ferrand, we’ve presented the works of giants like Jonas Odellor Jens Assur for some years now. Our audience also had the chance to see a […]

Star systems   “Stardust” by Mischa Rozema (Netherlands, 2013)   A few years before the Wright brothers built the first successful aircraft, filmmakers were already sending their audience out in space, on odysseys through improbable cosmos, on hazardous planets full of traps, into flying saucers, or with alien visitors crossing space and time.   From the early years of cinema, space travel has addressed […]

Director, screenwriter    During the festival 2003   Javier Rebollo was born in Madrid in 1969. In 1996, with Damián Paris and Lola Mayo, he created the Lolita Films company which produces all of his films. He directed various documentaries with Lola Mayo for the program Documentos TV on TVE2. Many of his short films were selected in Clermont-Ferrand: En medio de ninguna parte (In the Middle of […]

Director, screenwriter, actress, producer     Cherien Dabis was born in 1976 in Omaha, Nebraska, to a Jordanian mother and a Palestinian father. She received her B.A. in creative writing and communications from the University of Cincinnati and her Master of Fine Arts in film from Columbia University in 2004. She is the co-producer and screenwriter for the television series The L World from 2005 to 2007. […]