Festival

Here Comes the Sun From left to right: L’Arrivée du soleil dans votre signe by Lisa Giacchero, À l’ombre l’après-midi by Marin Gérard, Anxious Body by Yoriko Mizushiri and Blanc Ninja byEsther Mysius & Camille Rouaud The 2022 National Competition with its 1,867 films is rich with the offerings of directors who share with us their visions of the world, from pragmatic to […]

What a Wonderful World We started out with 6200, and will end up with 77 short films to discover in this 2022 International Competition. 84 directors will offer just as many visions of the world around us. 55 countries are represented with just as many stories from elsewhere. Once again, the festival will give us the opportunity to travel to the other side […]

Editorial The 1990s already marked a great leap forward, both qualitatively and quantitatively, in Spanish short filmmaking, but the first 20 years of this new century have only increased and consolidated its constant evolution.  Spanish productions have had an almost continuous presence in the leading world festivals, winning numerous awards (including a Palme d’Or in Cannes), and Spanish short films have been winning […]

Let’s get the party (re)started!   L’artiste pose avec son œuvre / The artist and his masterpiece © SQPLCM, Camille Dampierre “This drawing shows first of all what we missed the most: not only discovering new films, but to do so in the company of thousands of new people for us to meet.” These are the words of Brecht Evens, the Belgian illustrator who […]

The nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony have been announced on Monday, March 15, and some of the names sound quite familiar… In the “Best Live-Action Short Film” category, we can find The Present by Farah Nabulsi, which won the International Audience Prize in 2020.     Video interview of Farah Nabulsi Written interview of Farah Nabulsi White Eye by Tomer Shushan is […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Pauline Penichout about her short film Mat et les Gravitantes selected in the 2021 National Competition (F5 programme).

Watch the interview with the Brazilian filmmaker Léo Bittencourt about his short film Vagalumes selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L2 programme).

Watch the interview with the Russian filmmaker Vladilen Vierny about his short film À marche forcée selected in the 2021 National Competition (F9 programme).

Watch the interview with the Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saiz about his short film La Hoguera selected in the 2021 International Competition (I8 programme).

Watch the interview with the Taiwanese filmmaker Wei-Lin Hung about her short film K’s Room–the Creation And Destruction of the World selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L5 programme).