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  Interview with Zoe McIntosh, director of The World in Your Window     Firstly, could you explain the title? Without giving away the story, the film is set in a caravan park and explores the theme of grief. That sometimes in order to heal, you have to open your eyes and engage with the world again.  The relationship between the three characters is incredibly […]

  Interview with Jamie Jones, director of The Nest     What motivated you to tackle London’s housing crisis and precarious conditions in this film? Many different reasons to be honest. It’s constantly in the news. It’s something that people talk about a lot, but most importantly the idea came to me from conversations with my mother. I grew up in London during the 1980s […]

  Interview with Ronny Trocker, director of Estate [Summer]    Why did you want to make a film about illegal immigrants? That’s certainly a complex question, but to begin with, I don’t like the word “illegal”. Most people who cross the sea do so out of necessity. Our laws are what push them towards “illegality”. The refusal by European states to grant safer paths […]

  Interview with Paul Philipp, director of Die Besonderen Fähigkeiten des Herrn Mahler (The super powers of Mr Mahler)     You’ve managed to solve a crime story in under half an hour on screen. Are you interested in developing feature films? If so, are you interested in any particular genre? Yes, I am continuously looking for interesting topics, and maybe one of them will be worth […]

  Interview with Emma Benestan, director of Goût bacon [Bacon Flavor]    How did you come up with the idea for your film? A long time ago, when I was having a drink with my friend Morgan Simon (director of several shorts that have been screened at Clermont, including Essaie de mourir jeune [Try to Die Young] and Réveiller les morts [Waking the Dead], […]

  Interview with Julien Silloray, director of Féfé Limbé    Where did you get the inspiration for Féfé Limbé? During a rehearsal on my previous short film. Pierre Valcy (he had a supporting role in that film) confided in me in quite an unexpected way. Teary-eyed, he told me about his marital issues including the separation from his first wife. Pierre is deeply sentimental, unlike […]

  Interview with Maximilien van Aertryck and Axel Danielson, directors of Hopptornet (Ten Meter Tower)    How did you get the inspiration for Hopptornet and how did you make it possible technically? Our challenge and desire when working on “Ten Meter Tower” has been to capture precise images of people in a vulnerable state, a situation strong enough that it could work without a […]

  Interview with Astrid Goldsmith, director of Squirrel Island     Can you tell us a bit more about your background in animation and your specific “style”? I taught myself to animate when I was 12 with an old Super-8 camera, I used to make plasticine models and backdrops from cereal packets, it was pretty lo-fi! Super-8 film came with a process-paid envelope, so you […]

Discover the trailer of the 39th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, edited by Atalante Productions (David Chambriard) with some sequences extracted from the short films selected in the three competitions and an original score by Institut (Arnaud Dumatin & Emmanuel Mario).

Wednesday, February 10 at 8 p.m., La Fémis offered the creation of a live soundtrack accompanying the screening of three graduation films by former students of the school, by Alexandre Rochon and the Delano Orchestra, as part of the 30 years of the School. On the program: Les Naufragés by François Abdelnour (2012, 24 ’), Song by Éponine Momenceau (2011, 13’) and Le Feu […]