The Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival has become the world's premier cinema event dedicated to short films. It is the second largest film festival in France after Cannes in terms of audience and professional attendance. It is at the heart of many all-year-round activities and missions conducted from La Jetée by the collective team of Sauve qui peut le court métrage.
In 2009, the Festival attracted 137,196 admissions and over 2,800 professional delegates. The International Competition includes about 75 films in fourteen programs from around 50 countries. the French Competition includes about 65 films in twelve programs and the Lab Competition screens around 45 films in five programs. The Clermont-Ferrand Film Market has included 234 film organizations, 111 exhibitors, 378 producers and 415 festival delegates interacting in a 1,000 sqm exhibition hall. Clermont-Ferrand is the favored place of exchange between delegates from all branches of short film production worldwide.
The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival is organised by Sauve qui peut le court métrage (roughly translatable as "Short Film: S.O.S!"), a registered association which was created on 4th August 1981 out of the need to set up a major event around short films. In 1979, a Short Film Week was organised by the Clermont-Ferrand University Film Society. This event, repeated in 1980 and 1981 led members of the film society to create "Sauve qui peut le court métrage" in order to develop their project into a genuine Festival. In 1982 the Festival became competitive with a jury and in 1986 the first Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market was organized. As of 1998 the Festival had hosted over two million spectators, thousands of films, hundreds of filmmakers, eleven French Culture Ministers and eight general managers of the French Film Centre
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Directed by: Franco Lolli / France / 2007
Pablo, aged sixteen, lives with his mother. Over the last few years, she has done her best to deal with financial difficulties, but it hasn't been easy. Pablo tries to...
Audience Prize: "C'est dimanche!"
Directed by: Samir Guesmi / France / 2007
Thirteen-year-old Ibrahim is expelled from middle school and has his father believe that he received a diploma.
Special Jury Prize: "Erémia Erèmia"
Directed by: Anthony Quéré , Olivier Broudeur / France / 2007
A man tries to free himself from an alienating job through intense exercise. By subjecting his body to the rigors of the elements, and living these sensations, he hopes...
Best First Film: "Les Ombres qui me traversent"
Directed by: Emilie Carpentier / France, Romania / 2007
In Romania, the 15th of August is a huge religious and popular celebration. Fourteen-year-old Alia works with her mother in the bar at the heart of the celebration. Her...
Best Actor: "La Main sur la gueule"
Directed by: Arthur Harari / France / 2007
Bruno, accompanied by his friend Liliane, pays a visit to his father, who lives deep in the countryside. He has something to ask of him.
Best Actress: "Primrose hill"
Directed by: Mikhaël Hers / France / 2007
A western suburb of Paris, a big park overlooking the city, the Seine below, a hill in London, the tune of a dissonant melody, friendship, forgotten faces, the shadow of...
Best Soundtrack Creation Award: "Les Miettes"
Pierre Pinaud / France / 2008
A woman lives in her house, goes to work in a factory, and goes shopping at the local store. One morning she learns that the factory, which is the background of her...
Best Animation Film Award: "La Saint Festin"
Directed by: Léo Marchand , Anne-Laure Daffis / France / 2007
Hurrah! Tomorrow is the 40th of November! It's Saint Feast Day, the great celebration of Ogres, so if you haven't caught a child yet hurry up now... and good hunting!
Canal + Award: "Tony Zoreil"
Directed by: Valentin Potier / France / 2007
Tony is a 28 year-old bachelor who inherited a remarkable physical particularity. Like the rest of his family, he has very big ears and suffers from an extreme...
Procirep's Award for Best Producer: "Irinka et Sandrinka"
Directed by: Sandrine Stoïanov , Jean-Charles Finck / France, Belgium
Fifty years separate Irène and Sandrine. One, from Russian nobility, lived through the fall of the regime, the absence of an exiled father, and an adoptive family. The...
"Attention Talent" FNAC Award: "664 Km"
Arnaud Bigeard / France / 2008
Two men are looking for stashed cash in abandoned stations. Competition is stiff and things turn south. David's a small-time crook who gets cold feet and hides out with...
Youth Jury Prize: "Les Miettes "
Pierre Pinaud / France / 2008
A woman lives in her house, goes to work in a factory, and goes shopping at the local store. One morning she learns that the factory, which is the background of her...
Press Prize: "Lisa"
Lorenzo Recio / France / 2007
Lisa is a young girl who lives in an isolated house with her parents and her two brothers, under the firm authority of her father. One day, Lisa shatters his sacred...
Special Jury Mention: "La Saint Festin"
Léo Marchand , Anne-Laure Daffis / France / 2007
Hurrah! Tomorrow is the 40th of November! It's Saint Feast Day, the great celebration of Ogres, so if you haven't caught a child yet hurry up now... and good hunting!
and "Les Illusions"
Directed by: James Thierrée / France / 2007
How do you, as an artist, when the show is over, leave the imaginary world of the stage and deal with life after seven years spent performing a first play you gave birth...
and "Tony Zoreil"
Directed by: Valentin Potier / France / 2007
Tony is a 28 year-old bachelor who inherited a remarkable physical particularity. Like the rest of his family, he has very big ears and suffers from an extreme...
and "La Main sur la gueule"
Directed by: Arthur Harari / France / 2007
Bruno, accompanied by his friend Liliane, pays a visit to his father, who lives deep in the countryside. He has something to ask of him.
Jury Mention: "Pour la comédienne Marie Nicolle
Lucas sur terre"
Maud Alpi / France / 2007
Today is Isabelle's birthday. She would have been 25. Lucas got a bottle out, then went to work next to the silo, to his favorite song... That's when she appeared, the...
Youth Jury Mention: "Résistance aux tremblements"
Olivier Hems / France / 2007
A mysterious old lady lives in an abandoned apartment block. She lives alone but simply will not leave the place.
Press Mention: "La Saint Festin"
Directed by: Léo Marchand , Anne-Laure Daffis / France / 2007
Hurrah! Tomorrow is the 40th of November! It's Saint Feast Day, the great celebration of Ogres, so if you haven't caught a child yet hurry up now... and good hunting!
and "Le Vacant"
Directed by: Julien Guetta / France / 2007
Pierre is a man in his sixties who refuses to accept early retirement for health reasons. Between hardship and makeshift solutions, he comes up with occasionally...
Directed by: Kazue Monno , Takeshi Nagata / Japan / 2007
Exploring parks, train tracks, schools, hallways and Tokyo Bay.
Audience Prize: "Charlotte Sieling"
Directed by: Annette Kristina Olesen / Denmark / 2007
A man and a woman pass each other in a hotel corridor. They notice each other – it is possible that their personal space will be invaded in the very moment they pass...
Special Jury Prize: "Plot Point"
Directed by: Nicolas Provost / Belgium, United States
This is a land of New York cops, with its howling police cars, uniforms, ambulances, and crowded streets, which soon turns into the perfect scenery of a nation in fear....
Canal + Award: "Yours Truly"
Directed by: Osbert Parker / United Kingdom, England / 2007
Re-assembled into a surreal city this dark romance of Frank and Charlie is told with unexpected plot twists as they sacrifice their morals to find more than what they...
Press Prize: "Do-It-Yourself "
Directed by: Eric Ledune / Belgium / 2007
“If you don’t violate someone’s human rights some of the time, you probably aren’t doing your job.” Washington Post – December 26, 2002
Digital Work of Art Award (SCAM): "Cuisine"
Directed by: François Vogel / France / 2007
What is the relationship between a banana and your field of vision? How can a box of camembert cheese modify your perception of reality?
Special Jury Mention: "Plivnuti polibkem"
Directed by: Milos Tomic / Czech Rep. / 2007
Jakub sees the world from a different perspective, as he spends his days lying on the ground. Many legs pass him by, and one pair especially catches his attention -...
"The Apology Line"
Directed by: James Lees / United Kingdom, England / 2007
The creation of an "apology line" where members of the public can anonymously confess absolutely everything over the phone.
Press Mention: "Silencio"
Directed by: Sivaroj Kongsakul / Thailand / 2007
A soundman goes in search of that rarest of sounds – silence.
"Milk Teeth"
Directed by: Tibor Bànòczki / United Kingdom, England / 2007
A young boy follows his sister into a field as she sneaks out to see her boyfriend. Lost in the strange world of the cornfield, the siblings experience fear, love and...
Directed By: Reto Caffi / Germany, Switzerland / 2007
A department store security guard is racked by guilt after not helping someone who was being attacked in the subway.
Audience Prize: "The Wednesdays"
Directed By: Conor Ferguson / Ireland / 2007
Sometimes, when you’re in the autumn of your days, you’ll try anything to put a smile on your face again. Two pensioners who manage to re-ignite the love they’d almost...
Special Jury Prize: "Mompelaar"
Directed By: Wim Reygaert , Marc Roels / Belgium / 2007
Lubbert is a withdrawn young man living with his overbearing mother in a little house. A morning walk through the Flemish hinterland is upset by a surreal encounter with...
Best Animation Film Award: "The Pearce Sisters"
Directed By: Luis Cook / United Kingdom, England / 2007
Lol and Edna Pearce live on a remote and austere strip of coast. When the sea offers up a handsome but half drowned man they do their best to resuscitate him.
Canal + Award: "I Love Sarah Jane"
Directed By: Spencer Susser / Australia, United States / 2007
Jimbo is thirteen. All he can think about is one girl, Sarah Jane. And no matter what stands in his way - bullies, violence, chaos, zombies - nothing is going to stop...
Youth Jury Prize: "René"
Directed By: Tobias Nölle / Switzerland / 2007
A man in a yellow raincoat is desperately trying to break out of his solitude.
Press Prize: "La Rebelion de los pinguinos"
Directed By: Simón Bergman / Chile, Spain, Finland / 2007
While Chilean students demonstrate to demand better schooling, all Diego can think about is sex. He encounters a political conspiracy and has a love affair.
Special Jury Mention: "Wrestling"
Directed By: Grimur Hakonarson / Iceland / 2007
A love story about two gay wrestlers living in rural Iceland.
and "Ryba"
Directed By: Alexander Kott / Russia / 2008
A cold winter... Only hope can melt the ice.
and "John and Karen"
Directed By: Matthew Walker / United Kingdom, England / 2007
John the polar bear apologises to Karen the penguin after an argument they had and then has some tea and a biscuit.
Mediatheques Award: "La Rebelion de los pinguinos"
Directed By: Simón Bergman / Chile, Spain, Finland / 2007
While Chilean students demonstrate to demand better schooling, all Diego can think about is sex. He encounters a political conspiracy and has a love affair.
Youth Jury Mention: "Mompelaar'
Wim Reygaert , Marc Roels / Belgium / 2007
Lubbert is a withdrawn young man living with his overbearing mother in a little house. A morning walk through the Flemish hinterland is upset by a surreal encounter with...
Press Mention: "Giganti"
Directed By: Fabio Mollo / Italy / 2007 / Fiction
In his attempt to become a man, Pietro, a 15-year-old boy who lives in the deep south of Italy, begins to understand the reality in which he is growing up and...
and "Lacreme napulitane"
Francesco Satta / Italy / 2007
Two contrasting characters clash on a train from Naples to Milan on Christmas Eve. In the background, the Italian landscape is made of old, colourful postcards.
Best Comedy "Fernand Raynaud" Award: "I Am Bob"
Donald Rice / United Kingdom, England / 2007
Bob Geldof – rockstar, campaigner, international man of action - gets accidentally stranded at a look-alike convention. Will anyone believe he is the real deal?
Directed By: Jens Assur (2006, Sweden)
Audience Choice: “Tanghi Argentini”
Directed by: Guido Thys (2006, Belgium)
Special Jury Prize: “Deweneti”
Directed by: Dyana Gaye (2006, Senegal, France)
Best Sound Production: “Hochhaus”
Nikias Chryssos (2006, Germany)
Best Animation: “Levijatan”
Directed by: Simon Bogojevic-Narath (2006, Croatia)
Prix Canal +: “Il Supplente”
Directed by: Andrea Jublin (2006, Italia)
Youth Prize: “Tricko”
Directed by: Hossein Martin Fazeli (2006, Slovakia)
Prix de la Presse: “Atmenah”
Directed by: Cherien Dabis (2006, Palestine)
Prix des Médiathèques (CVS): “Tanghi Argentini” Directed by: Guido Thys (2006, Belgique)
Mention Spéciale du Jury: “Atmenah”
Directed by: Cherien Dabis (2006, Palestine)
Best Actress: Cathy Curtin in “Cricket Head”
Directed by: Grant Greenberg (2006, South Africa/United States)
Special Mention of the Youth Jury: “Levijatan”
Directed by: Simon Bogojevic-Narath (2006, Croatia)
Fernand Raynaud Comedy Prize: “Tanghi Argentini”
Directed by: Guido Thys (2006, Belgique)