national

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 […]

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.

  Interview with Lorenzo Bianchi, director of Le petit (The Little Guy)    Your hero, Luka, is a twelve-year-old boy. Why did you decide to base your film around a child? Initially, I wanted to make a film based on Georges Bataille’s childhood. Not a biopic, but a narrative framework and a world that I felt close to and that would have allowed me […]

Today, we had an interview with Olivier Strauss about his film Dirty South (F5).

  Interview with Frédéric Radepont, director of Le sens des choses    Where did you get the idea for this unusual encounter? Le sens des choses is a story that stayed in a drawer for nearly five years. I wrote it during a very active and experimental period, when I often worked with a friend, Pierre Guibert. We made over thirty short films in […]

  Interview with Stéphan Castang, director of Panthéon Discount    What interested you in medical diagnosis? First, Panthéon Discount came from a proposition by Pascale Faure and Brigitte Pardot for the Canal+ short film collection “Demain si j’y suis” (Editor’s note: the entire program will be shown during the 2017 Festival). The order was clear for each director: write and direct a film that […]

  Interview with Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, directors of La république des enchanteurs (The Republic of Enchanters)    What inspired you to make this film? Is it part documentary? We were invited to shoot a film with the inhabitants of a neighborhood in Nantes for the “Dans Mon Hall” project organized by the production company De l’Autre Côté du Périph’ and the Confédération […]

  Interview with Paul Mas, director of Children    How did you come up with the idea for Children? The project was built around Nicolas’ character. In my own life, I’ve often tried to understand morally reprehensible people, even playing devil’s advocate… From the start, my intention was to put the viewer in the position of judge throughout the film, to make the viewer […]

Today, we had an interview with Lotfi Achour about his film La laine sur le dos (F10).

  Interview with Émilie Aussel, director of Ta bouche mon paradis (Your Mouth Is My Paradise)    Why did you want to make a film about feelings and human relations? I’ve always been interested in that. In all of my films I try to paint a picture of our feelings. These have to do with group relations, our relations with others, our relation to […]