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© KipArt Remarquables ! (Remarkable Women!) Women and cinemaDrawings, paintings, photos, sculptures, art installationsChapelle des Cordeliers – Place SugnyClermont-Ferrand29 January > 17 February4:00 to 18:00 except SundaysPreview: Saturday 3 February at 18:00Free entrance For this thematic exhibition, twenty-eight artists will pay tribute to all these exceptional, prodigious, always surprising women. They will introduce us to these impetuous women, clear or obscure, with a […]

Clermont-Ferrand, 16 May 2023 « We are delighted to be a regular partner of the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, which exactly matches our cultural vision for rigor and accessibility. » Dear Minister, President of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Council, you pronounced the above words in your editorial for our 2020 catalogue. This past Friday, 12 May, the standing committee approved reducing by over 50% the subsidies that […]

The Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, a professional, public and popular event, the second French film festival in terms of number of spectators and one of the most important events dedicated to the new voices in cinema in the world, has just lost more than half of its 2023 funding from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional council. This decision affects first and foremost our organisation, same […]

Interview with Joachim Hérissé, director of Écorchée [Skinned] What did you want to explore in this relationship between the two women? Who or what inspired this relationship between them?With this film, I wanted to express the feelings that came from fever nightmares that I had as a child, in which I could feel my body going from an empty state to a full […]

Take Me with You While we thought that the past year would be synonymous with a return to “normalcy”, we have to admit that 2022 has not been a calm year on the international stage. However, filmmakers from around the world have continued to take an amused, original, and sometimes critical look at what surrounds us, as you will discover through the 78 […]

I’m Still Standing Despite the decline in movie theater attendance, one thing is certain: French production has never weakened. With 1,972 films registered this year, we are approaching the levels of “the world before”. Take the opportunity to be seduced by colorful characters and distant or inner landscapes: 56 destinations will be offered to you as part of this 45th National Competition. French […]

The Paradox of the Black Night El Sembrador de Estrellas by Lois Patiño (Spain) With the city lights, the contemporary world is in the process of “killing” the night. In some cosmogonies, it is the very origin of the world: it is the archetype of the matrix of the darkness of the mother’s womb. In others, the night represents the end, the symbol […]

Saturday, 28th January at 4pmLa Jetée – salle de projection6 place Michel-de-L’Hospital63000 Clermont-Ferrand Tram > Delille – Montlosier [Free entrance] Open to all on a first come first served basis The talk will be in French Live on the Festival’s Facebook page The British filmmaker Sally Potter’s audacious adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel Orlando, with Tilda Swinton, in 1992 initially brought […]

4th to 10th FebruaryCiné JaudeMall Jaude 1 – Last Floor18 rue d’Allagnat63000 Clermont-Ferrand Tram > Jaude Open to those with a Festival ticket or proper accreditation Interested in talking about the films in competition with their creators? Then the Open Mic sessions are just for you! Come and watch the films in competition and ask your questions immediately after the screening. The […]

Laughing in up, taking it off After an eroticism retrospective in 1996, Kamera Sutra, an S&M program in 2001, and a caustic Blue Midnight program in 2010 that remains fresh in festival memories, here we are again with the body as an obscure object of desire as we explore the libido. To know which erotic playgrounds we are leading you towards, just follow […]