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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 »
11 March 2019
ClermontFF2019 Interview with Jonathan Hodgson, director of Roughhouse
by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamIn 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 »
1 March 2019
ClermontFF2019 Lobo Mauro, director of Mais Triste que Chuva num Recreio de Colégio
by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamCan 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 »
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 (…) Continue Reading »
Interview 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 (…) Continue Reading »
Interview 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 (…) Continue Reading »
Interview 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 (…) Continue Reading »