Living on the edge of the most polluted zip codes in the US, an actor prepares for a role. Daron Colbert is an aspiring actor and like so, so many of his peers, he’s toiling away at his day job, hoping the next audition will clinch the deal. (…) Continue Reading »

On his way to England for an urgent transport, Merlin, an exhausted 50-years-old driver, begins to hear haunting voices from the back of his locked truck. An impressive mix of grit and poetry drives the miserable, heart-wrenching fate of migrant (…) Continue Reading »

Very amusing and highly inventive animation around the themes of recycling and reincarnation! What was the starting point for the inspiration of the film? Are you particularly fond of certain objects? We based the film around the theme (…) Continue Reading »

The chirpy tone and cute child actors certainly belie a cruel madness at the heart of this ballsy and fun short, in which a children’s play date reveals darker power dynamics. Continue Reading »

An emotionally stunted man reckons with the deep-rooted resentment that he harbors for his ailing mother. A surprisingly and impressively beautiful film given the dark and complex subject matter. Why did you choose this title in particular? (…) Continue Reading »

Julien, 30, visits his daughter Cléa, 6, whom he has not seen for a while. While the child looks for his attention, Julien makes every effort to come home to Lucie, Cléa’s mother. This time he will stay. A touching short with impressive character (…) Continue Reading »

Musician Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame, and blood. A three-part queer horror movie that features songs from Sim’s highly-anticipated debut album _Hideous Bastard_. Director Yann Gonzalez talks to us at the Brasserie du Court about his new short Hideous. Café court / Short Talk - Yann Gonzalez from ClermontFd Short Film (…) Continue Reading »

The Shining was shown at The Garden Cinema as part of their Jack Nicholson season. The film was followed by an in-depth discussion with Professor Roger Luckhurst, writer of The Shining: BFI Film Classics and hosted by Mydy’s Abla Kandalaft. The (…) Continue Reading »

SPOTLIGHT ON... Iraq 2009. Ten-year-old Hamoudi has only one leg, but is totally obsessed with football. He and his friends - like the rest of the world - are looking forward to the Champions League final between Barcelona and Manchester (Messi versus Ronaldo). But then Hamoudi’s television breaks down! Kurdish-Belgian director Sahim Omar Kalifa’s award-winning short is ruthlessly (…) Continue Reading »

A group of people come together in the Welsh town of Machynlleth to produce El Sueño Existe (The Dream Lives On), a festival of politics and culture. This is the subject of Pablo Navarrete and Teilo Vellacott’s short doc Fragments Of A Dream, (…) Continue Reading »