Benedikt Erlingsson is an Icelandic director, author and actor. His first feature, Of Horses and Men, was a hit on the festival circuit and won many international awards, including the New Directors Prize at the 2013 San Sebastián Film Festival (…) Continue Reading »

Interview with the British filmmaker and Clermont favourite Nick Jordan about his short film Stratum. Stratum is a film that navigates through post-industrial landscapes on the European Route of Industrial Heritage, from Britain’s abandoned South Yorkshire coal seams to the culturally re-purposed collieries of the Ruhr Valley, Germany, via the former coal-mining region of Wallonia, Belgium. (…) Continue Reading »

Interview with the American filmmaker Paul Szynol about his film, the moving and ambitious short "The Pull". After serving time in a New Hampshire jail, a freed inmate faces the pull of addiction. Café court / Expresso Video - Paul Szynol from ClermontFd Short Film Festival on Vimeo. More about Paul’s work on his website. Follow him on Twitter @paulszynol. The video was directed by (…) Continue Reading »

In a Moroccan village, children play football on an improvised field. Meanwhile, Abdallah and Mohammed come across a donkey with a headphone on his hears and bags full of a white powder on his back. The two young brothers decide to bring those bags to their village. TRAILER - NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB from Les Valseurs on Vimeo. Interview with Yves Piat, director of the award-winning hilarious (…) Continue Reading »

Based on a true story. An Italian backpacker stops at a remote gas station in Australia and is confronted with a strange situation. Interview with Alex Feggans, director of the amusing, genre-bending Australian short Jackrabbit. Jackrabbit was screened at the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival 2019. To find out more about Alex’s work or to request a screener, check out his (…) Continue Reading »

In a strange town, the relationship of a group of friends is tested when a new person joins them. The manipulative personality of the new group member has worrying consequences and challenges the loyalty of the friends. Are there any elements (…) Continue Reading »

Detainment is based on transcripts of the interrogation of 10 year-olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered toddler James Bulger in 1993. How did you learn about children’s transcripts? I was 12 when it happened and I grew up hearing about the case. I could never understand how these two ten-year-old boys could commit such a horrific crime. A lot of people will say they were (…) Continue Reading »

Comment avez-vous appris l’existence des transcriptions des interrogatoires de l’affaire James Bulger ? J’avais douze ans au moment de l’affaire, et j’en ai entendu parler toute ma jeunesse. Je n’arrivais pas à comprendre comment ces deux garçons de dix ans avaient pu commettre un crime aussi horrible. Beaucoup de gens disent qu’ils étaient juste foncièrement « mauvais ». Mais je pense qu’il (…) Lire la suite »

Can you explain your choice of title? Is it a Brazilian saying? It’s not a Brazilian saying. There’s a sentence in a book called Os Cus de Judas (“The Land at the End of the World”), by António Lobo Antunes, a Portuguese writer, which says (…) Continue Reading »

Interview 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 (…) Continue Reading »