Festival

Pierre Mazingarbe (2014) Translation : First year you attended the festival : First time with a film selected in the National competition, fifth time I’m coming. Do have an anecdote about your film ? The chicken scene was like a circus to shoot where ten actors and five chickens are tossed into the ring together and you have to show the consequent fight. What do (did) […]

Every year, the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival dedicate 6 programmes to a country.   The Chinese film industry is in full ferment. Jeffrey Chan, a young Hong Kong producer who now works in Beijing, sums up the situation thus: “Before, the only thing that existed were propaganda films made by the army and the Party. Our cinema is like a ten-year-old boy: full of […]

Each year, the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival presents a panorama about a thematic retrospective.   The first film reel ever… Leaving the factory, facing the Lumière brothers’ Cinematograph, disentangling themselves from a crowd of pedestrians… Here they come already: the cyclists! And with them of course, comes that indispensable, “that marvelous machine”, the bike, which writer Paul Fournel says, “noiselessly carries you to the […]

Party girl is the first film directed by Marie Amachoukeli (scriptwriter of La traversée and La femme à cordes, selected in the 2007 and 2011 national competition, and Forbach, 2009 National Grand Prize National 2009, and director of C’est gratuit pour les filles, special mention of the national jury in 2010) – Claire Burger (film maker of Forbach and C’est gratuit pour les filles) […]

          The Luxembourg-french short movie M.Hublot won the Best animation short movie’s oscar. It was on screen during the 36th international short film festival of Clermont-Ferrand in youth audience selection.              

This year, our friends from Off-Courts brought Stéphane Bourgeois’ Photobox to the short film market. The result in pictures, and in music!

Interview : Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis.

  Interview with Alvaro Sarmiento, for Kay Pacha  Where did you find the inspiration for Kay Pacha ? Unfortunately in Peru it is common that many kids work in the streets to earn money to help their families to survive. In Cuzco you can see many girls like the main characters of the short working with tourists. I wanted to make a story about this world, […]

  Interview with Maria Ruiz, for Des(pecho)truccion  In your short, the separation is focused on objects related to Gabriel and both characters are almost absent from the screen. Do you think that we can get a full portrait of Gabriel through his objects ? I dont think you can get a full portrait of him in anyway because all the information you have about […]