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Discover the trailer of the 40th 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).

More than a world tour, the international competition paints an annual portrait of the contemporary world. Because its production times are shorter, the short film is the format that gives us the most current portrayal of our times. Their subjects question our society. We discover their characters as an intimate and universal echo of these times we live in. In 2018, 75 short films […]

The national competition was the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival’s original competition, and this year’s fortieth installment offers fifty-four films. And even though directors and producers don’t sit down and agree to follow a particular movement, making it difficult to establish trends, we can still see some general directions.   French short films are becoming more international  There are numerous factors that account for a […]

For this 17th edition, the Lab is working to shake up rules and reality by exploring every land, nook and cranny, real or imaginary, that speak volumes about us. We steadfastly dig into the same track: that of the inexplicable and of parallel worlds. “I believe that the universe is 97% rational,” says the French director Clément Cogitore. “But it is within the remaining […]

Hélène Vayssieres Head of short ARTE France -Short films programming manager / Catherine Colas Program manager – programming manager ARTE ZDF / Laurence Rilly Program manager – Programming manager ARTE GEIE (France, Germany)

  Interview with Michael Panduro, director of Det Sjunkne Kloster    How did you get the inspiration for Det sjunkne kloster? I was inspired by the sense of longing and hopelessness, that I got from reading the story by Hans Christian Andersen (originally a German folk tale written by Gottschalk). It’s a story of doomed love and an institutional lack of compassion, which features a […]

  Interview with Petra Szöcs, director of Pouvez-vous boiter ? (Can you Limp?)    Why were you interested in the mourning period and in using it to start Pouvez-vous boiter? My grandfather had died shortly before I started shooting this film. Pouvez-vous boiter ? is a very personal film, I even used some of my home videos I made of my grandfather.  How did you […]

  Interview with Pierre Feytis, director of Film, Beyonder III    How did you get the inspiration for Gog, his dog and his rod? In my previous short film, Kuwait, there’s a strange red ‘perforated’ staircase, which appears in a garden. Random appearances and sudden manifestations of objects disrupting the routine of your average protagonist have always inspired me. I wanted to begin the […]

  Interview with Marcos Sanchez, director of The Unnatural    What came first: drawings or music? The film contains some sequences that I had animated a while ago for a video installation. These scenes already contained the characters of the film and the black setting they inhabit. Later came the music, when the musicians proposed me to animate a film for it. It really […]

Discover the interview with the Italian codirectors Marie Amachoukeli & Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka  about their short film I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again (Je veux que Pluton redevienne à nouveau une planète), selected in the International competition (F12 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École.