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Posted on 17 February 2019
ClermontFF2019 Veljko Popovic, director of Biciklisti
by Abla KandalaftInterview with Veljko Popovic, director of the beautiful, hypnotic and playful Biciklisti.
Can you tell us about cycling season? I’m assuming it’s a real event!
The spirit of the local people in my hometown is entangled with sports. It can be football, it can be basketball, water polo or cycling. It does not matter, what matters is the iconic position of the sportsman as the alpha male in the pack. He is revered, lusted after and considered to be the best of man. He knows this and is puffed (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 17 February 2019
ClermontFF2019 Thomas Elley, director of Bølger [Open Spaces]
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 could (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 13 February 2019
ClermontFF2019 Swatted by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
by ARFIS, brasserieducourt.com, ClotildeInterview 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 (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 10 February 2019
ClermontFF2019 Last Year When The Train Passed by Pang-Chuang Huang
by Abla Kandalaft, ARFIS, brasserieducourt.comInterview 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 Huang (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 8 February 2019
ClermontFF2019 En Busca de un Tierno Silencio by Luis Cifuentes
by ARFIS, brasserieducourt.com, 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.
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Posted on 8 February 2019
ClermontFF2019 Destete by Ines Gowland
by ARFIS, brasserieducourt.com, 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.
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Posted on 6 February 2019
ClermontFF2019 Ombligo de Agua by Laura Baumeister De Montis
by ARFIS, brasserieducourt.com, 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.
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Posted on 6 February 2019
ClermontFF2019 Cadoul de Craciun / The Christmas Gift
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 I (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 5 February 2019
ClermontFF2019 Turbine by Alex Boya
by 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 film, il y a (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 9 January 2019
Short of the week: Sorry I Drowned by Studio Kawakeb and MSF
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 (...) Continue Reading »
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