Shorts

So, can you tell us more about Gasper and how the idea for the film came about? The film came about when I took a trip back to Ireland, where I grew up, to visit family and friends in the summer of 2015. While I was there I unexpectedly met Gasper, an old friend from Ireland, who was part of a group of friends that I grew up with. One evening, when I was driving Gasper home after a friend’s dinner party, we started discussing the unaffordable housing property for young people wanting to (…)

We caught up with animator and filmmaker - and Clermont-Ferrand coup de coeur director - Chris Shepherd during the 2017 edition. His latest short, Johnno’s Dead, a sort of sequel to his very successful, dark and mesmerising short film Dad’s Dead, was screened as part of the Lab competition. Both films, voiced by Ian Hart, use a clever and beautiful mix of animation and live action, which immerse the audience in the narrator’s sorry, and at times incongruously comical, tale. Dad’s Dead and (…)

One of Mydy’s Lucile Bourliaud’s TOP 5 from this year’s Clermont-Ferrand Film Fest, and winner of the Grand Prix, Douwe Dijkstra’s Green Screen Gringo is a highly original short in which the filmmaker invites ordinary Brazilians to read poems or talk about their country while a green screen superimposes random scenes that jar, complement or clash with the situation at play. Douwe’s previous work, Démontable (2014) and Supporting Film (Voor Film, 2015), have both been lauded on the festival (…)

Could you tell us a bit more about where the inspiration came from to tell Lara’s story? Are there any autobiographical elements? The inspiration behind In White is definitely autobiographical. I lost my father in 2009 and it was my first experience of a funeral as a “host” as opposed to a guest. The ritual that took part across 3 days, at a time when my heart was pretty much broken, lingered with me long after the funeral. The visual and auditory experience in the film is in some ways my (…)

DeKalb Elementary On comprend qu’il ait gagné le grand prix de la compétition internationale, tant ce film puissant et inattendu reste en mémoire après la projection. Un plan fixe sur le bureau d’accueil d’une école primaire. Nous sommes aux États-Unis. Les gens vont et viennent, la vie suit son cours, jusqu’à ce qu’un jeune homme arrive et, fébrilement, sorte une arme de son sac à dos. Le spectateur se fige dans son fauteuil, craignant une histoire glaçante à la Elephant ou We Need to (…)

We interviewed Daniel Mulloy, director of short film Home, selected at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, starring Jack O’Connell and Holliday Grainger. The film, partly funded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was released in cinemas on 20 June 2016, to coincide with World Refugee Day. Daniel tells us and the Brasserie du Court team about the filmmaking process, his time spent in a refugee camp and the support of the Kosovar crew... Le court du jour : “Home” de (…)

This week’s short comes to us courtesy of film collective Reframed, whose eerily beautiful GIRL.LONDON.NIGHT, written by and starring Reframed member Claire Gordon-Webster, has just won the Best Female Filmmaker award at the Filmic Pro Tangerine Dreams Contest competition. The contest, now in its second year and named after feature film Tangerine, that was shot entirely on an iPhone, requires participants to make a short film using the FiLMiC Pro phone app.

Lara has always lived in the shadow of her mother. That is, until the morning of one life-changing decision that Lara knows must be made alone. This week’s pick is Marc Hardman’s Mother, starring Jumaan Short & Miriam Margolyes, a moving, well-paced 10 minute drama. The film is one of many entries in this year’s Women’s Voices Now festival. To view it and vote, click here. Voting is open until 1 July!

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 : (…)