Maabar* – A journey across new Lebanese cinema Welcome to the land of honey and incense, whose history marked by turmoil is difficult to summarize here. Lebanon saw the thawra (revolution) in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic, the explosion at the port of Beirut in August 2020, and a new offensive of the Israeli army in 2024. Sites of production were swept up, the […]

The Buzz – Sound in film Sound is flowing through Clermont: In 2025, cinema is getting ready to be heard. This retrospective invites you to rediscover cinema through the prism of sound, a universe in which each murmur becomes a vital actor of the plot. Though born silent, film has always been animated by sound. From its very beginnings, pioneers such as Léon […]

Ciné-Concert Thursday 6 February 2025 at 19:30 Opéra Théâtre of Clermont-Ferrand22 boulevard DesaixSingle ticket price: €6 (excluding Festival tickets) The Original SoundTrack Challenge is France’s international film music composition competition. Part of the official program of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, the challenge spotlights musical talent. The aim of this competition is to : The aim of this competition is to : to […]

On the Road Again As winter gently settles over Clermont Ferrand, the Short Film Festival is once again preparing to brighten up the city in an explosion of creativity. From January 31 to February 8, 2025, the streets will be bustling with discussions as films from all corners of the world lit up the screens in all festival venues. Today we are proud […]

Immemory Los Rayos de una Tormenta by Julio Hernández Cordón / Até Onde o Mundo Alcança by Daniel Frota de Abreu The title is a nod to Chris Marker who was active in the social and political reality of several countries, but was also the creator of a body of work centered on memory. Many of the films in the 2024 Lab competition […]

“People have the power” – Patti Smith The choice was difficult and more limiting than usual. But  the International Competition will once again host lovely stories and singular voices for 2024. Around the world in sixty-six films. Fifty-two countries visited, (re)discovered and magnified through the vision of sixty-eight directors. Grab the programme! Women (, men and everyone else) on the verge of a […]

(Re)creating the world, a fleeting canvas of film The Festival is celebrating its 46th National Competition, a showcase for French creativity in film, which is very far from seeing a decline, with 1957 films registered this year, coming from all corners of the country and even from much farther away. Some of the shorts were co-produced or shot by foreign filmmakers across countries […]

Dear friends, Last May, we left you with a call for assistance, amidst uncertainty, but more importantly, amidst widespread mobilization on the part of our audiences, our partners and the entire film industry, which we once again want to thank you for. So now, we want to reassure you once and for all in print that Yes, the 2024 Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival will […]

The Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and Kickstarter continued their collaboration in 2023 by renewing their call for projects, following a broader partnership that provided support for launching crowdfunding campaigns to all selected filmmakers in competition at Clermont over the past four years.This year, a new call for projects was launched during the 2023 Short Film Market and was promoted to the selected filmmakers in competition, as well as those […]