Shorts

Après le Festival Anima et le Festival international du film francophone de Namur, le Festival international du court-métrage de Clermont-Ferrand récompense à son tour le court d’animation Dernière porte au sud, en lui décernant le Prix de la meilleure animation en compétition internationale. Dernière porte au sud est l’adaptation de la BD du même nom de Philippe Foerster, initialement parue dans Fluide Glacial puis dans le recueil Certains l’aiment noir. Le héros de ce conte glaçant et (…)

We met up with Nina Gantz, whose film Edmond is screening at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, as part of the International selection. Edmond is an animated short film dealing with twinless twin Edmond and his excessive desire for love, which overtakes his social relations. — Clotilde Couturier, our correspondent at the 2016 Clermont Ferrand international short film festival, asks Nina Gantz about Edmond. — More informations about Edmond : (…)

This week, we’ve picked William Walsh’s Remnants as our celebrated short. The winner of the 2015 100 Hour Film Race, Remnants is a simple, yet effective short film addressing issues of mental health and male suicide, through which are subtly weaved that year’s specific requirements. The theme was "mistaken identity", the prop, a mask and the action, drinking out of a straw. Walsh and his top cast manage to create engaging characters that we found ourselves caring about, no mean feat for a (…)

Glenn Paton’s H Positive has recently gone live! ”If you had a prolonged terminal illness and money was no object, would you manipulate euthanasia so that you could die on your own terms? This story examines how the protagonist Mark uses his wealth to help create a euthanasia roller coaster. A roller coaster so powerful, it causes cerebral hypoxia, thus suffocating your brain ensuring a euphoric death." A visually impressive film, and a highly original premise: H POSITIVE from Glenn (…)

"If money was no object, would you manipulate euthanasia so that you could die on your own terms?" Glenn Paton’s visually impressive H Positive is screening at Clermont-Ferrand 2016. Where did the idea come from? I went to an art exhibition and I saw a small A2 image of a roller coaster called ’the death coaster’ created by Julijonas Urbonas. I thought that it would be a great starting point for a short film so I wrote up the idea, put a treatment and storyboards together that relayed (…)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Grand Prize Las Cosas Simples (Les choses simples/Simple Things) Alvaro Anguita - Chili - 2015 - Fiction - 26’ Jury Prize Die Badewanne (La baignoire/Bathtub) Tim Ellrich - Austria, Germany - 2015 - Fiction - 12’ Special mentions - International Jury Uzak M?... (Lointain...) Leyla Toprak - Turkey - 2015 - Documentary - 16’ Panorama Virginia Urreiztieta - Venezuela - 2015 - Fiction - 20’ Audience Prize Madam Black Ivan Barge - New Zealand - 2015 - Fiction - (…)

We met up with Mark Chapman, whose film Carmex is screening at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, as part of the Lab selection. Camrex is a cinematic and photographic project exploring the stories of residents at the notorious Camrex House hostel in Sunderland. You were working on a drama in the area, when the idea to film Camrex came about. What sparked your interest ? I was casting a feature drama and as part of this process, I met up with an ex-drug-dealer in a pool hall in (…)

Armand Lameloise, réalisateur de Je ne suis pas un cygne et Chabname Zariab, réalisatrice de Au bruit des clochettes, échangent autour des points communs et des différences entre leurs films.

Another year, another Clermont Fest, wish assorted goodies, freebies, queues and lunch vouchers. Not that they’re needed to sway us. It’s a strong selection, many hits and few misses. We’ll have updates and coverage coming up, but first, we’re kicking with a few interviews conducted by our writer Clotilde Couturier, with the Brasserie du Court, the festival blog. First up is an interview with Chabname Zariab, director of Au Bruit Des Clochettes, from the [Brasserie’s (…)

Duncan Cowles a réalisé tout a fait par accident un court qui totalise maintenant presque 400 000 vues sur Youtube, et qui a été sélectionné dans les meilleurs festivals de Grande Bretagne, LSFF et Glasgow entre autre. Hier soir Doc Heads organisait une soirée de projection au Monty’s Bar a Brick Lane. L’occasion de voir une série de courts documentaires présentés par leur réalisateur, puis de boire quelques verres en leur compagnie. La projection s’est terminée sur un film de Duncan (…)