Shorts
Reviews, previews and highlights of features and shorts from the myDylarama team and guest writers.
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ClermontFF2019 Thomas Elley, director of Bølger [Open Spaces]
17 February 2019, by Abla KandalaftInterview with Thomas Elley, director of the cryptic and unsettling Bølger [Open Spaces] in the international competition. I assume Open Spaces [the English title] refers to the filming location. Can you tell us a bit more about this place and its community? Yes, it does. The fun thing is that the original title of the film is “Bølger” which is Danish for “waves”. And I hated that title in English, so I went on this big hunt for a new one. Finally, I settled on Open Spaces, which I felt (…) -
ClermontFF2019 Swatted by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
13 February 2019, by ARFIS, Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierInterview with the French filmmaker Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis about his short film Swatted selected as part of the 2019 Lab Competition (L1 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École, in collaboration with the Brasserie du Court and Mydylarama. Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis is back at Clermont with a second award-winning short. Café court / Expresso Video - Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis from ClermontFd Short Film Festival on Vimeo. -
ClermontFF2019 Last Year When The Train Passed by Pang-Chuang Huang
10 February 2019, by Abla Kandalaft, ARFIS, Brasserie du Court teamInterview with Taiwanese filmmaker Pang-Chuan Huang around his short film "Last Year When the Train Passed by" selected as part of the 2019 Lab Competition (L5 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École in collaboration with the Brasserie du Court and the Mydylarama team. Pang directed the Grand Prix-winning Retour in 2018. What were you doing last year when I took this photo from a train passing by in front of your house? Café court / Expresso Video - Pang-Chuan (…) -
ClermontFF2019 En Busca de un Tierno Silencio by Luis Cifuentes
8 February 2019, by ARFIS, Brasserie du Court team, Catherine C.Interview with the Chilian filmmaker Luis Cifuentes about his short film "En Busca de un Tierno Silencio" selected as part of the 2019 International Competition (I3 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École in collaboration with the Brasserie du Court and Mydylarama. A man returns to Chile after years living in exile to try and find his friend who was disappeared during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Café court / Expresso Video - Luis Cifuentes from ClermontFd Short Film (…) -
ClermontFF2019 Destete by Ines Gowland
8 February 2019, by ARFIS, Brasserie du Court team, Elise LoiseauArgentin filmmaker Inés Gowland talks about her short film "Destete" selected as part of the 2019 International Competition (I4 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École in collaboration with La Brasserie du Court / Mydylarama. Teresa returns to Argentina determined to sell the family farm, but excessive rain forces her to stay, while allowing Ernesto, the presumptuous man who runs it, to convince her to keep it. Café court / Expresso Video - Inés Gowland from (…) -
ClermontFF2019 Ombligo de Agua by Laura Baumeister De Montis
6 February 2019, by ARFIS, Brasserie du Court team, Elise LoiseauBrasserie/Mydy interview with the Nicaraguan filmmaker Laura Baumeister De Montis about her short film "Ombligo de Agua" selected as part of the 2019 International Competition (I2 programme). Alina rides horses. She is good at it, as she is at everything she does. Alina smokes crack. She feels more at home with the people who provide her with the drug than with her own family. Alina crumbles, but she has something to hold on to. A dream of a simple life, growing tomatoes. Café court / (…) -
ClermontFF2019 Cadoul de Craciun / The Christmas Gift
6 February 2019, by Abla KandalaftOn the 20th of December, 1989, a few days after Ceausescu’s bloody repression in Timisoara, a father’s quiet evening turns to sheer ordeal as he finds out that his little son has mailed a wish letter to Santa. As the kid understood, his father’s desire was to see Ceausescu dead. What motivated you to set the film at that time? Did you have direct experience of the Ceausescu period in Romania? I have always been interested in this period perhaps because I grew up during Communism so that (…) -
ClermontFF2019 Turbine by Alex Boya
5 février 2019, par Abla KandalaftInterview in French by the Brasserie du Court team with filming from ARFIS students. Serait-il correct de voir dans votre film une analogie avec l’impact des nouvelles technologies qui ont tendance à s’immiscer considérablement dans nos vies, au détriment des relations que nous tissons avec les gens ? Oui, la manière dont la technologie s’est installée dans nos vies nous a changés. Cependant, je ne sais pas si c’est au détriment de la façon dont nous interagissons entre nous. Dans mon (…) -
Short of the week: Sorry I Drowned by Studio Kawakeb and MSF
9 January 2019, by morrisThe animation Sorry I Drowned was broadcast on BBC Arabic’s film programme Cinema Badila last week. This 6-minute animated film “Sorry I Drowned”, created by the Beirut-based Studio Kawakeb and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), is inspired by a letter allegedly found on the body of someone who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea due to the prevailing cynical politics of our day. The film illustrates the migrant-rejection crisis from the eyes of the migrants taking the Mediterranean route. It (…) -
Short of the Week: 6 Miles Out - One Day in the Life of Gaza Fishermen
23 December 2018, by morrisThis week’s film was one of the highlights of the 2018 edition of the Bristol Palestine Film Festival. 6 Miles Out is a short doc offering an intimate and authentic encounter with a group of fishermen in Gaza as they set out at dawn and follows them throughout the day and night, when they unavoidably become the target of Israeli military ships, hurling threats and warning shots, pushing them back towards the coast and away from the more plentiful supply of fish. The boats are restricted to 6 (…)