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© Riccardo Guasco Be prepared for the 39th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival next February The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival continues to amaze with record entries of 162,000 spectators and over 7,000 film submissions. You really will be dazzled by the light shining on this ocean of dreams. Come join us on a journey into the deep from February 3 to 11, 2017. You […]
A Sense of History (Mike Leigh – United Kingdom, 1992) The term black humor appeared in Huysmans’ work and was later coined by André Breton, whose Anthology of Black Humor was banned by the Vichy Regime in 1940. But what does the expression actually reflect? At times where seeing political correctness everywhere if often a reflex for new conformists, we must […]
Un Juego de Niños by Jacques Toulemonde Vidal (France, Colombia – 2010) Colombian short films are full of promises that the audience will discover in Clermont-Ferrand with 6 programmes of films. In 2008, Como Todo el Mundo, by Colombian director Franco Lolli, won a Grand Prize in Clermont-Ferrand. This marked the beginning of a new era for Colombian cinema, that will gradually start […]
Wednesday, February 10 at 8 p.m., La Fémis offered the creation of a live soundtrack accompanying the screening of three graduation films by former students of the school, by Alexandre Rochon and the Delano Orchestra, as part of the 30 years of the School. On the program: Les Naufragés by François Abdelnour (2012, 24 ’), Song by Éponine Momenceau (2011, 13’) and Le Feu […]
Interview with Gabriel Harel, director of Yúl et le serpent (Yúl and the Snake) Where did the idea for Yúl and the Snake come from? Yul and the Snake was inspired by my childhood growing up in the Southern Alps region. The story is not directly based on something I experienced. It’s more of an atmosphere: youth pretending to be criminals, drugs, pitbulls, techno music, and […]
Interview with Yianni Warnock, director of Homebodies Homebodies is your third short of a “despair trilogy.” How this short is connected to your previous films? The films are all connected through their focus on people and exchanges that are all very disconnected. I probably should have called it the ‘disconnected trilogy’, but I find the word despair very extreme, and, in a sense, […]