Festival

  An interview with Douwe Dijkstra, director of Démontable  Your film begins with the shot of a kitchen table with a radio on top. As a hand searches the FM band for the right station, toy soldiers begin to invade in helicopters. Where did you get the idea to turn a usually calm space, the kitchen, into a war zone? It is my depiction […]

  An interview with Clément Tréhin-Lalanne, director of Aïssa  It seems obvious when watching Aïssa, that the heroine is at risk of being deported from France if she ends up being past a certain age. Can you confirm that intuition and tell us more about this legal situation? These tests, which we call “bone age tests”, are conducted on young undocumented immigrants of whom […]

  An interview with Francesco Rosso, director of Fok Nabo Distorio    Your film is based on extracts from “Liivaterade Raamat”, composed by Liis Viira. How did you decide to construct images around this music? Since I built myself a light-box (for animating with oil paint on glass) I’ve started to play with anything I could find around me. So I got quite soon […]

  An interview with Morgan Simon, director of Essaie de mourir jeune [Try to Die Young]  What inspired you to make Try to Die Young? Birthdays are hardly ever what we would like them to be. They are the stuff of nightmares and bad memories. They make us think of the time that has passed, and that we discover lost during the course of […]

  An interview with Mathieu Z’Graggen, director of Think Big  What inspired you to make the film Think Big? Did you do research on runaways and missing teenagers, or did you base the film on real events? The film takes place in a sleepy little village in the south of Alsace next to a big Franco-Swiss airport. It happens to be the town where […]

  An interview with Nicolas Boone, director of Hillbrow    Hillbrow begins with an attack in the street where it seems that the person being attacked refuses to retaliate. Why did you decide to begin the film with this sequence? To follow this person on his urban path gives a good overview of the Hillbrow neighborhood. We see guarded bus stops, churches, chickens, guys […]

  An interview with David White, director of Killer?  Killer? gives the floor to a man accused of patricide. In particular, he expresses the weight that the suspicion of others represents. Why does public opinion often doubt the innocence of someone before they are even tried? Firstly, in the film he has gone to trial and been found not guilty, which is a slight […]

  An interview with Brahim Fritah, director of Les fantômes de l’usine (Ghosts in the Factory)  First of all, is Ghosts in the Factory based on a (or several) true story/stories? Is the script read by the voice-over an actual testimonial? Ghosts in the Factory is partly autobiographical. The script read by the voice-over is inspired by the memories and personal reflections I have […]

Game over! The correct answer was: Maniac by Bo Mirosseni (F4 programme)   Answer it and you can win two invitations for the Festival screenings ! Here is track #17 from Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival to win the game “For whom the short tolls ?” You must find the exact title of this film, the complete director’s name, AND the programm in which the […]

Every day, two interviews with directors in selected in official competitions (national, international and Lab) of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival.   Today, Richárd Hajdú talks about his short film S (L2 programme).