Interview with Yann Berlier & Lola Cambourieu about their short film Automne Malade selected as part of the 2019 National Competition (F5 programme) at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École in collaboration with the Brasserie du Court and Mydylarama. Troubled by her mother’s sickness, Milène leaves Paris to prepare her exams. Seeking calm (…) Continue Reading »

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 »