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Submit a film
The online submissions for the 47th edition of the Clermont-Ferrand International are now open.
International Competition 2025
Registration deadline:
- October 3rd, 2024
Submission fee = €13
+ delivery costs = 1 Shortfilmdepot stamp
Requirements:
- Films completed after: October 1st, 2023
- Maximum running time: 40 minutes
- Origin: All countries (except France)
- Festival screening format: DCP
2024 International Special Jury Prize 2024: Rishi Chandna and his producer and co-scriptwriter Rahul Srivastava for "Virundhu" (The Fest) - © SQPLCM, Baptiste Chanat
National Competition 2025
Restricted to French films
Registration deadline:
- October 10th, 2024
Submission fee = €13
+ delivery costs = 1 Shortfilmdepot stamp
Requirements:
- Films completed after: October 1st, 2023
- Maximum running time: 59 minutes
- Origin: France as main country of production
- Festival screening format: DCP
2024 National Grand Prix: Julia Kowalski for "J'ai vu le visage du diable" (I Saw the Face of the Devil) - © SQPLCM, Baptiste Chanat
Lab Competition 2025
- No application for this competition is necessary since the films will be chosen from those submitted to two competitions above.
- The Lab Selection Committee will select the films for the Lab Competition from a pre-selection proposed by the Committees of the International and National Competition.
2024 Lab Grand Prix: Valeria Hofmann for "AliEN0089" - © SQPLCM, Baptiste Chanat
XR - Extended Reality section 2025
- Registration deadline: November 15th, 2024
- Film produced: between 2023 and 2024
- Maximum running time: 59 minutes
- Genre: fiction, documentary or experimental film in continuous shooting or frame by frame (animation)
2024 Best VR Film Award by Evaveo: Marion Burger and Ilan J. Cohen for "Empereur" (Emperor) - © SQPLCM, Anthonin Robineau
International Short Film Market 2025
The International Short Film Market is organized by the association Sauve qui peut le court métrage (hereafter “SQP”) alongside the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in the aim of facilitating economic activity and encouraging professional interaction in the short film sector. The Short Film Market is a unique venue for meetings, promotion and networking.
Participation :
- The referencing of films at the International Short Film Market is free and non-competitive.
- All films submitted to the National or International Competition of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, whether or not selected, will be referenced in the digital catalog of the Short Film Market.
Conditions:
- Referencing at the Short Film Market is only available for films who have been submitted to the National or International Competition of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
Short Film Market Picks Label :
In order to highlight the films that the different official selection committees of the festival particularly appreciated, SQP reserves the right to reference and label these films under the name "Short Film Market Picks" on the different short film market medias such as its digital catalogue or video library; offering in this way better visibility for these films.
Videolibrary option
The Videolibrary option will allow participants of the Short Film Market to watch the registered film online. Each participant is checked by our teams beforehand. Online viewing is strictly reserved to cinema and audiovisual industry members (TV/VOD/ SVOD buyers, Distributors, Programmers, Press, etc).
Participants can extend their access to the viewing option via a paid subscription (Shortfilmwire+), until 1 December 2025.
Submission:
- To register a film to the Short Film Market Videolibrary, leave the "Videolibrary option" box checked when submitting your film to the National or International Competition of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival via the site shortfilmdepot.com
- For films being selected in the official selection of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival (international competition, national competition and lab competition, African perspectives, Young Audience programmes, French Region Showcase, Pop-Up programme) this option is mandatory.
Services:
- Registered films will be accessible from the Short Film Market Videolibrary via a secure server (strictly reserved to cinema and audiovisual industry members: (TV/VOD/ SVOD buyers, Distributors, Programmers, Press, etc).
- two free accesses to the digital section of the Short Film Market (access to viewing statistics and participants contact details, etc.).
- a free accreditation for the director(s) and producer(s) of the film.
Viewing Copy:
- By default, the viewing copy that has been uploaded to the shortfilmdepot.com platform when you registered to the National or International Competition of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival will be used.
New version of the viewing copy:
- To replace your viewing copy by a new version (final version, English subtitled version, etc.), download a new video file to the shortfilmdepot.com film card (which was initially used to register your film to the National or International Competition of the Clermont- Ferrand International Short Film Festival) by using the "Upload new version" button, before January 10th, 2025.
Cancellation:
- The International Short Film Market Videolibrary registration can be canceled at any time by sending a note to g.rouchit@clermont-filmfest.org, except for the films in the official selection.
FAQ
Submissions are to done via Shortfilmdepot only.
Please complete the entry form, upload your film to the platform and submit to “Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand”.
There is no registration for the Lab Competition since the films will be chosen from those entered into the National and International competitions.
No preview links are accepted. Only uploaded films & submissions via Shortfilmdepot are accepted.
We do not accept DVDs. Only preview files (.mp4) can be uploaded via Shortfilmdepot.
If your film is in French, no subtitles are requested for the submission process.
If your film is in English, adding English subtitles is preferred.
If your film is not in English or in French, please subtitle it in one of these two languages.
-> For subtitles’ information regarding the selected films, please refer to our regulations.
You can submit as many films as you want.
Unfortunately no, you cannot re-submit a film that has already been submitted to the festival in the past (even if the new edit is very different from the first).
This includes films that filmmakers decided to send as works-in-progress.
The time limit for the International Competition is 40 minutes & 59 minutes for the National (French) Competition.
We do not accept late entries.
We will personally contact the selected filmmakers & the submitters the first week of December.
The list of selected films will be published shortly after on our website.
Non-selected films will be notified by email and their Shortfilmdepot account will be updated accordingly.
Submission fee = €13
+ Delivery costs = 1 Shortfilmdepot stamp
This is a flat fee throughout the submission process, there are no early bird discounts.
There are no refunds in case your film is not eligible or selected. Therefore, please carefully check the regulations before submitting & check with your team (distributor, production, filmmaker or film school) to see if your film has already been submitted.
Waivers are not available, however a 50% discount is reserved to film schools, distribution companies or film promotion institutions that would like to submit more than one film, by different directors. To benefit from this discount, the account submitting must be the one of the school, distribution company or film promotion institution. Individual accounts cannot benefit from it. The organization reserves the right to not consider submissions that do not fill these criteria.
Any queries shall be sent to the submissions desk at the festival via email submissions@clermont-filmfest.org
Contacts
Coordination of the International Competition
Tim Redford
t.redford@clermont-filmfest.org
+33 (0)4 73 14 73 21
Coordination of the National Competition
Stéphane Souillat
s.souillat@clermont-filmfest.org
+33 (0)4 73 14 73 14
Coordination of the Lab Competition
Calmin Borel
c.borel@clermont-filmfest.org
+33 (0)4 73 14 73 32
Coordination of the Extended Reality section
Sébastien Duclocher
s.duclocher@clermont-filmfest.org
+33 (0)4 73 14 73 08
Coordination of the Short Film Market
Grégoire Rouchit