Festival

Regular festival visitors who’ve been around for some time will surely remember the now gone brasserie next door, where festival goers, the festival team, volunteers, jury members, filmmakers and other industry delegates and festival guests would mingle and meet till late. Goodbye nostalgia, hello new world! In the same unpretentious manner we’re happy to welcome everyone to our new hangout place 2.0, in the […]

  The Short Film Market is at the heart of a network that spans Europe and reaches beyond. For European professionals, the exchanges that take place in Clermont-Ferrand are central to planning the year ahead. Developing projects, nurturing talents, or circulating films, all the key players who work towards generating and promoting quality cinema in Europe and its position in the world meet there […]

  Euro Connection has become an indispensable meeting place for European professionals who are interested in co-producing short films. Each year about fifteen European film projects already in development are pitched at the Forum, and the results from the last few years have been impressive: 38 films have been completed, and 17 of those were international co-productions. Some of the films have been genuine […]

For the seventh consecutive year, the Festival invites the participation of a film school.   For over 45 years, the Maurice  Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts has provided an intensive and professional education in filmmaking, drawing on the vast resources of New York City and New York University.  Since 2005, Chair John Tintori and a faculty of […]

 The journalist and politician Jean Jaurès was assassinated in a restaurant in Paris on 31 July 1914. In the weeks prior to his death, he had been battling to keep his country from entering the war, defended in his efforts by like-minded people across Europe. Nevertheless, a few days later, the First World War broke out, spreading its destruction and slaughter across the continent. […]

 “You cannot simply run away, you have to run the right way.” Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz Departure, flight, escape, the road… these themes have always inspired cinema – the art of movement itself – to such an extent that they have given birth to a genre: the road movie. Think of Easy Rider, from 1969, but also 1959’s North by Northwest and The Grapes of Wrath from […]

  “That one is predetermined. That one, it finds another. This one comes in one window; Sliding out the other.” Thus begins Fugazi’s song “Instrument”, the second-to-last track on their third album In On The Kill Taker. It is a howl rather than a song. A song of anger at having seen the flames. A song about the weight of loss. That’s when the […]

  Blexbolex is a French illustrator who was born in 1966, in Douai, in the north of France, and who grew up in the Cantal region of the Auvergne. In 1991, he received his degree from the National School of Fine Arts of Angoulême. In 1992, he became a silkscreen printer and began printing and publishing his own books on the underground circuit. He […]

  Denis Côté is an independent filmmaker and producer living in Quebec, of Brayon origin. His experimental films have been shown at major film festivals around the world. He studied film at Collège Ahuntsic in Montreal and founded nihilproductions around 1994. He made a number of short films, including Kosovolove (2000) and La sphatte (2003). He has also been a film critic on radio, […]

  Born in Besançon (France) in 1971, part Swiss part French, from 1990 to 1994 Ursula Meier studied film-making at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) in Belgium, graduating with “Great Distinction”. The success of Le songe d’Isaac, her end-of-course project, then of Des heures sans sommeil, Special Jury Prize in 1999 at the festival of Clermont-ferrand, enabled her to pursue an independent […]