Festival

Film director, actress     After studying applied arts and working as a designer, Émilie Brisavoine has made drawings of the world, of women, and of dogs.     She then appeared as an actress in the film La Bataile de Solférino by Justine Triet, followed by her performance in Peine Perdue by Arthur Harari. This film was screened in the national competition of […]

Singer, musician, composer     Just shy of her 26th birthday, Brazilian cellist and songwriter Dom La Nena has learned to live in motion. Born Dominique Pinto in the coastal city of Porto Alegre, she spent her childhood split between her hometown and Paris, studying cello and piano.     © Jeremiah     She was 13 when she moved to Buenos Aires where […]

Film director, producer   Attracted by Producing section, Guillaume Brac is graduated of the Fémis and worked as an assistant director, most notably on films like Parc by Arnaud des Pallières and Un baiser s’il vous plaît by Emmanuel Mouret.   His short film, Le Funambule, was screened in the national competition of the 2006’s Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. In 2009, he realized and […]

Actress, producer     Arta Dobroshi is a Kosovar actress born in 1979. Whilst in the Acting Academy in Prishtina, she played in numerous theater plays, short films and feature films.         Arta Dobroshi shot to international renown for her depiction of Lorna in Le Silence de Lorna directed by Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne. She was nominated in Cannes for her […]

Film director, journalist, photographer   Eileen Hofer was born in 1976 in Zurich. After being a managing editor for two years at a Swiss magazine, she get involved in film production as a self-taught director.     © Magali Girardin       In 2008, she realized her first short film, Roots which was screened in 70 festivals (Locarno, Palm Springs) and was selected in the international competition […]

Artist, Composer, Musician   Cascadeur (i.e. “stuntman”), was born Alexandre Longo in Metz in the Lorraine region of France. He hails from a musical family and began studying piano at age eight.   © Cyril Gourdin   His first foray into mainstream success came in 2008 via the Inrockuptibles’ CQFD competition. Now, if you’re wondering whether you’ve seen his stage act, then you haven’t seen […]

Film director, scriptwriter, producer   Paz Fábrega studied Communications at the University of Costa Rica and Photography at the Colegio Universitario de Alajuela.   In 2005, her graduation film, Temporal, shot in a rural village in Costa Rica, has been in competition at many festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, and received the Grand Prix in Biarritz Film Festival.   She was selected for the scriptwriting residency programme […]

Photographer     JH Engström was born in Karlstad, Värmland (Sweden) in 1969. He graduates from the photography and film department at Göteborg University in 1997. He also publishes his first book Shelter. In 2000, he travels throughout Europe and then moves to his native region Värmland where he continues working on the Trying to Dance project, which was published in 2004. He is […]

Film director, sound editor, producer     Kleber Mendonça Filho was born in Recife, northeastern Brazil. He has worked extensively as a film critic and also as a programmer.       In the 90s, he made documentaries, experimental films and fiction as a videomaker. His short films permit him to win over 100 awards in Brazil and abroad. Eletrodoméstica was selected in the […]

In February 2016, during the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, La Fémis will celebrate its 30th birthday with a slate of three programmes. Two of these will be dedicated to an overview of final projects from the Production Department, including Nicolas Lasnibat’s Treinta años which journeys to Chile in search of the past, and a funeral procession accompanied by an unusual band in Luc Meilland’s […]