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“M.O.” by Jakub Kouril (Czech Republic – 2012) To fittingly celebrate our 30th anniversary, the Brest European Short Film Festival offers you an exceptional program in the image of its annual festival: from the Czech Republic to Norway via Ireland and Hungary, a subtle mixture of hope, feelings, occasional nostalgia, but always lots of vitality! A European tour of the practices and tricks that […]

You know by now the name of the illustrator who has the daunting task of succeeding Blexbolex and creating the official 2016 festival poster.   “Pour en finir avec le cinéma”, Dargaud, 2011   Born in Strasbourg in 1967, Christian Hincker, aka Blutch, is known for his drawings that have graced the columns of Libération, the New Yorker and the Inrockuptibles, but he is […]

Music and images done differently.   “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)” by Floria Sigismondi (USA – 2013)   On the menu for this new year of our program « Decibels ! », we meet up again with among others the Blogothèque and Phoenix at the Château of Versailles, at dawn, filmed from mid-air with a drone, but also from an airplane in flight, then while relaxing on […]

For the eleventh consecutive year, the festival invites a film school.     The prestigious film school of Amsterdam (NFA) was founded in 1958. It is a division of the Amsterdam School of the Arts (Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten). Its mission is to prepare students for careers in filmmaking: directing – narrative and documentary, producing, screenwriting, editing, sound engineering…   Its alumni […]

Damn, thirty years already!   Thirty years. Flies by so quickly, and yet…     The Short Film Market saw the light of day in 1986. First held in Salle Gaillard, then in the Maison de la Culture in Salle Chavignier, the Market consisted of three viewing booths in a small office made available to a handful of buyers. Among them, the Canal+ team […]

  Claire Burger was born in 1978 in Forbach, Lorraine (France). She first worked as a photo-journalist before she became a La Fémis school degree holder and finally, a film maker. During her first shootings, she makes some films with her close relations and works with non professional actors, exploring together the ambiguous connection between fiction and reality.   Forbach   Her first short film […]

Chris Landreth started his adult life as a mechanical engineer, until he decided in 1990 that doing animation would be much more fun. Shortly after this he joined Alias Inc. (now Autodesk), where he created two CG-animated short films, The End (1995) and Bingo (1998). Both films explored storytelling based on human psychology as much as photorealistic character animation. He calls this approach “psychorealism”. […]

Thomas Cailley during the festival 2011   Thomas Cailley is a thirty-year-old film maker, La Fémis school degree holder. In 2010, he directs the short film Paris Shanghai, awarded in several worldwide festivals and selected in the national competition of the festival of Clermont-Ferrand 2011. With Franc Bruneau on the stage of Paris Shangai   Les combattants, his first full-length feature film, was selected at the Quinzaine […]

The European Film Academy and EFA Productions present this year’s short film nominations. At each of the 15 participating film festivals, an independant jury presented one European short film in competition with a nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards. The International Jury of the 36th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival selected, on February 8, 2014, the film Pride by Pavel Vesnakov, also International […]

            Flight over a short films nest   After busy bees left Clermont-Ferrand’s 2014 edition on yet another audience record of 164,000 admissions, the festival team’s now headed towards new adventures, either flying on a dragon’s back to prepare a showcase of Chinese shorts, riding on a tour of the best shorts around the theme of Cycling, or scouting […]