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La Ville Lumière by Pascal Tessaud (France – 2012)   For more than 20 years, the short films produced by La Luna Productions have been part of an effort to discover and support young filmmakers. We have created a program that highlights the diversity of these works throughout the years: many successful films, one receiving an Oscar nomination, as well as other more peculiar films […]

Roman Polanski on the steps of the school in 1981   The remarkable history of Poland’s National Film School of Łódź, in Polish PWSFTViT *, founded just after World War 2, began 70 years ago, on March 8, 1948. The fifth oldest film school in the world, it trains directors, producers, cinematographers, screenwriters, editors, and actors. It is considered one of the top 10 […]

Oiseaux-Tempête ft. Sharif Sehnaoui, Abed Kobeissy & Ali El Hout, Bab Sharqi, by Grégoire Orio et Grégoire Couvert (2017)   Decibels! offers a new voyage that begins in Algiers with The Blaze underscored by electronic music with Territory. Next stops are the USA and Afghanistan thanks to the PJ Harvey videos for Orange Monkey and The Community of Hope, both directed by Irish photographer Seamus Murphy, who […]

Oiseaux-Tempête ft. Sharif Sehnaoui, Abed Kobeissy & Ali El Hout, Bab Sharqi, by Grégoire Orio et Grégoire Couvert (2017) Decibels! offers a new voyage that begins in Algiers with The Blaze underscored by electronic music with Territory. Next stops are the USA and Afghanistan thanks to the PJ Harvey videos for Orange Monkey and The Community of Hope, both directed by Irish photographer Seamus Murphy, who will […]

Ce n’est qu’un début by Michel Andrieu et Jacques Kébadian (France – 1968)   50 years later, we most often view this time period as a liberation, a revolt against the morals and aesthetics of a bourgeois society, shamelessly reproduced by the self-proclaimed higher-ups of the society’s hierarchy. This is all true. But if May 1968 was the symbolic climax of a wave of […]

Les Merguez de Zeitoun by Jean-Louis Cap (France – 1987) © CANAL+   It’s the festival’s 40th anniversary, and it’s Dinner Time!   To celebrate the event, we have cooked up a delicious retrospective celebrating the art of gastronomy and the pleasure of dining in all its forms, from the most unpretentious to the most sophisticated, by way of a few curiosities.   It is […]

Racines by Eileen Hofer (Switzerland, Turkey – 2008)   A time and space journey into the cinema of the Swiss Confederation…   Switzerland is better known for its bank confidentiality than for its films. And yet… At the end of the 1970s, a few filmmakers, including the iconic Alain Tanner, burst onto the international scene on the waves of May 1968 at a time when their […]

  We are pleased to share with you today the beautifully colored poster for the 40th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, which will take place from February 2 to 10, 2018. The image of this year’s Festival has been designed by Antoine Lopez and Isabelle Pio, better known under the nickname « Bologo ». They are behind several posters of the festival, in particular those […]

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There are any number of directors who have cut their teeth in the world of short films. But it’s the actors who stand, belting, on the front lines of the seventh art, fearless and often unknown soldiers marching to the orders of script and director. From hesitant beginnings to thunderous returns, from vibrant homages to late bloomers, these “casting survivors”, are now familiar faces, […]