Festival

Trente ans après avoir été sélectionné en compétition nationale au festival de Clermont-Ferrand avec Toro Moreno (1983) et Homicide by Night (1985), Gérard Krawczyk revient pour une Master class consacrée au scénario. En tant que scénariste ou réalisateur, il a signé de grosses productions comme Taxi 3 et Fanfan la tulipe, mais aussi des œuvres plus personnelles telles que Je hais les acteurs ou […]

Star systems   “Stardust” by Mischa Rozema (Netherlands, 2013)   A few years before the Wright brothers built the first successful aircraft, filmmakers were already sending their audience out in space, on odysseys through improbable cosmos, on hazardous planets full of traps, into flying saucers, or with alien visitors crossing space and time.   From the early years of cinema, space travel has addressed […]

Today, we had an interview with Caroline Poggi et Jonathan Vinel  about their film Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe (programme F10).

  An interview with Sarah Saidan, director of Beach Flags  Your name is Sarah Saidan and one of Beach Flags women is Sareh. Do you feel close to her or to the main character, Vida? Are they like parts of yourself, of your own story? Are you Iranian too? I am Iranian and I have lived almost my whole life in Iran. I have […]

  An interview with Thomas Baerten, co-director of De Smet    How did you write your story? Did you write it with Wim? I wrote a first draft of the script by myself, and we were talking about who’s gonna direct it, so I contacted Wim Geudens because he had more experience in directing and I wasn’t too sure if I could handle a […]

Every day, two interviews with directors in selected in official competitions (national, international and Lab) of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival..   Today, Nassos Vakalis talks about his short film Dinner for Few (I13).

  An interview with Atsuko Hirayanagi, director of Oh Lucy!  In Oh Lucy!, you deal with the fundamental differences of culture and communication between Americans and Japanese with humor. Do you think the Japanese should open up more to the English language? I don’t necessarily think so. That’s a part of who we are culturally, whether by choice or not, and differences make the […]

  An interview with Demis Herenger, director of Guy Moquet  Your film shows a kind young man in love by the name of Guy Moquet, who wants to kiss his beloved in public. What inspired you to make this film? I don’t think she is really his beloved, but it is indeed about kissing in public. The question this film arises from is less […]

Today, we had an interview with Ludovic et Zoran Boukherma, Marielle Gautier et Hugo P. Thomas about their film Ich bin eine Tata (F11) et Perrault, La Fontaine, mon cul ! (F12).

  An interview with Jérôme Clément-Wilz, director of Printemps    Printemps appears to be a documentary about the relationship between two men, one of which is speaking in the first person. Is it you? It is in fact a documentary in the first person, or in two first persons, him and me. We are both at Clermont to present the film at the Festival. […]