Festival

2 programmes 17 films   Etablished in 1996 by Franck Ekinci and Marc Jousset, Je Suis Bien Content (I’m Very Happy) is a production company that specializes in animated films.As winners of the 2016 Producer’s Award for short film, we have the privilege of presenting two Carte Blanche programmes at this year’s Festival. The award is a recognition of all the hard work and […]

2 programmes 20 films     Carte blanche to Nuits sonores (DB1)     For fifteen years, the Arty Farty team has been programming the festival Nuits sonores with conviction, rigor and a spirit of openness. In addition to its musical initiatives, from its very beginning the festival has thrown its weight into images. On the one hand by keeping up to date on […]

2 programmes  9 films     Who will be the next BONG Joon-ho ?   Where does BONG Joon-ho’s virtuosity come from? Where did he get the idea of having the monster in The Host emerge from the depths of the Han river? Or of translating the comic book Snowpiercer into film? Or of stirring up the long-dormant Memories of Murder? Where did E-J-yong (Untold Scandal) and JANG Joon-hwan […]

This programme consists of films shot and made in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.   It is a testament to this nex region’s dynamism in the area of youthful creation.     In the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, filmmakers and producers have a wide range of ressources at their disposal for realizing their projects. Schools, residencies, assistance for emerging talents, financial assistance for development and production, logistical support during […]

Maud Alpi, film director and scriptwriter presents her short films at the Festival of Clermont-Ferrand since 2003.   Maud Alpi‘s second short film, Lucas sur terre (Lucas on earth), was rewarded during the Clermont-Ferrand short film festival in 2007. Her third short film, Nice, multi award winning in Pantin and Vandôme in 2009.           Since 2010, she writes with Baptiste […]

  Nine Antico is a French illustrator, comic book author and filmmaker.     America, rock’n’roll, adolescence and especially female figures, scandalous, free-wheeling, politically incorrect ones if possible, but also simply contemporary figures all inhabit her work, making her an author with an audacious, subversive voice that is unmatched among current comic books.                   Her first […]

Black Humor     (L’union fait la force – Hanne Phlypo – 2006)           The closer we look at black humor, the more it seems to resemble humor in general. In his Anthology of Black Humor, which was banned in 1940, André Breton more often speaks of just humor, without adorning it in that color whose association he so cherished (black […]

Featured Countries Colombian Promises     (Los restratos – Iván D. Gaona – 2014)       Six programmes of short films invite Clermont-Ferrand to discover the many bright promises of young Colombian filmmakers engaged in the short form, in a country where cinema is in full bloom.   (Rio – Nicolas Serrano – 2012)   It’s no secret that Colombia is at a turning point […]

Daniel H.Byun’s films are broadcasted all over the world. He is also known as Byun Hy-uk.   Several of his productionshave been selected in numerous festival and have been multiprimed at the festival of Clermont-Ferrand.     He is a Francophile who completed his studies in directing at La Fémis and earned a doctorate in Aesthetics, Arts and Culture from the Sorbonne.     […]

Sébastien Betbeder, French film director and scriptwriter, has directed several short films that have been rewarded in previous editions of the Clermont-Ferrand Short FilmFestival. After studying at the Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, he joins Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, in Tourcoing. He then directs a number of short films, followed by a feature-length film in the fantasy genre, Nuage (Cloud), released in cinemas in […]