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“What do voices from the beyond, the World Cup Finals, a call for help to space aliens, an ambush by a gang of Amazons and a young transgender person’s techno party all have in common? They are all unique stories told with originality and talent! Showcasing cinematic uniqueness and inventiveness, unearthing and guiding the emerging artists of tomorrow’s Cinema is all part of the […]

“Since Ikki Films’ inception in 2011, we’ve tried hard to produce films rooted in experience and experimentation. Pushing the bounds of narration, searching for a beauty that’s sharp rather than smooth, inviting the viewer towards doubt, confusion and mystery. We lead young, talented individuals in the field of animation toward the bustling world of images and narrative; we believe each of their creations will […]

Come Together   While lockdown kept us largely isolated in 2020, the 78 films that make up the International Competition this year place groups and community at the center of their stories. First and foremost, family. Like the family we don’t choose but that we’re surrounded by in moments of difficulty in Every Day’s Like This by the Canadian filmmaker Lev Lewis, which shows […]

Head Held High   The Festival’s forty-third national competition is drawn from a staggering number of films submitted for selection. One thousand nine hundred and twenty-one short films that we were hardly expecting, that we were hardly hoping for, discouraged as we were by the unprecedented crisis. We thought that cinematic production would suffer just like everything else from the restrictions in other sectors. […]

A special programme this year for a particularly devilish edition, with a welcome breath of Air by Jeanne Added in a volcanic setting, directed by Julien Mignot (2020 Lab Jury) and accompanied by the Auvergne Film Commission, as well as Belfour and “Si la rivière coule” for a gentle daydream amidst the lakes of Auvergne. “See My Girls” by Tindersticks: we were able to […]

“You don’t have to be a scientist to do experiments” stated Jeffrey Lewis as far back as 2003, before, as so often, returning to matters of the heart. In any case, the first decades of the new millennium have presided over the abolition of borders between genres and art forms, as a grand finale to the artistic avant-gardes of the 19th and 20th centuries. […]

120 BPM     The Lab competition is twenty years old and still going strong. There’s a certain rhythm and music, there’s an urge, a creative Urge, that Vincent Menjou-Cortès recreates so well in his film (Pulsion) and that simply must be let out! This unique edition of the Lab boasts an exceptional selection of films, loaded with surprises, and confirmation that documentary filmmaking is […]

Dear friends,   Late October, France went back into lockdown – just 3 months ahead of the 43rd edition of our Festival. Many decisions had then to be made, in terms of festival production or staff contracting. Pandemic figures were terrible, perspectives looked dark : what kind of festival and film market could we hope for? It appeared quickly that a major international industry […]

Flower power!   Yuko Shimizu, the talented Japanese illustrator who honored us with her presence last February as a member of the International Jury, has been tasked with creating the poster for the 2021 edition of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Editorial “I had a vague idea that I wanted to create something that has to do with volcanoes. That was my initial […]

Yi Yi, Taiwan in the spotlight! On the world map of cinema, Taiwan is a country that stands out. You may recall at the end of the 1980s, the invigorating breath referred to as the new Taiwanese wave, a cinema that broke from the cinema of propaganda, the romances and the nostalgia of a lost China: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang (the title of this […]