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Retour sur mon premier court : Laura Goncalves
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Retour-sur-mon-premier-court-Laura-Goncalves

A l’occasion de l’édition 2023 du Festival de Clermont-Ferrand, nous avons discuté avec la réalisatrice Laura Goncalves dont le court La Quadrature du Cercle avait fait partie de la sélection de 2015 pour en savoir un peu plus sur son parcours depuis et ce que lui a apporté cette présence au festival. Parlez-nous de votre premier court-métrage sélectionné à Clermont-Ferrand. Quel était le sujet ? Le court-métrage La Quadrature du Cercle a été sélectionné pour la 37ème édition du Festival du (...) #Clermont_FF

Jawahine Zentar on Sur la tombe de mon père #ClermontFF23
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Jawahine-Zentar-on-Sur-la-tombe-de-mon-pere-ClermontFF23

We interviewed French filmmaker Jawahine Zentar about her short film heart-felt Moroccan-set Sur la tombe de mon père (On My Father’s Grave) selected in the 2023 National Competition (F1 programme). #Clermont_FF

Interview with Binghan Lin, director of The Trapped Pig
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Interview-with-Binghan-Lin-director-of-The-Trapped-Pig

The Trapped Pig tells the almost surreal story of a Wuhan truck driver, who is travelling home for the Chinese New Year with a precious boar, being trapped in one-person quarantine zone at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of my two comedy coups de coeur of Clermont-Ferrand 2023. The Trapped Pig is both totally absurd and at times very much laugh out loud. With skilful comedic timing, Lin Binghan tells a story that’s also full of heart and compassion for its trapped (...) #Clermont_FF

Richard Misek on his short A History of the World According to Getty Images
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Richard-Misek-on-his-short-A-History-of-the-World-According-to-Getty-

A keen video essayist, Richard Misek’s work involved endlessly googling archive images. In 2018, he noticed that the download function had been disabled on Google. He dug deeper and found out that Getty Images had threatened to sue Google. The more he looked, the more Richard noticed that Getty had their logo imprinted everywhere and the scope of their reach became clear to him. This very cleverly edited short film questions the proprietary ownership of images from our collective history and (...) #Clermont_FF

Isabella Margara on her short Nothing Holier than a Dolphin
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Isabella-Margara-on-her-short-Nothing-Holier-than-a-Dolphin

Two fishermen find a Dolphin accidentally caught in their nets. The Dolphin, on its turn, finds a fisherman drowning in the water and tries to save him. More myths and legends as inspiration at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival! This time, they come to us from Greece and through the lens of Isabella Margara in an astoundingly original short that one member of the audience loudly claimed was "the best film he’d seen this (...) #Clermont_FF

Masterfully inspired by Afro-futurism: Amartei Amar on TsutsuƐ
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Masterfully-inspired-by-Afro-futurism-Amartei-Amar-on-Tsutsu%C6%90

Set in a small Ghanaian town at the edge of a large landfill site that spills into the ocean, the sons of a fisherman, Sowah and Okai, struggle to cope with loss of their eldest brother who drowned during a fishing expedition. Haunted by his demise, Okai believes their brother is still out there… Speaking at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, filmmaker Amartei Amar explained his choice to draw on the aesthetics of such movements as Afro-futurism. He does so masterfully. (...) #Clermont_FF

Laura Gonçalves on her short “O Homem do Lixo”
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Laura-Goncalves-on-her-short-O-Homem-do-Lixo

On a hot August afternoon, the family gathers at the table. The memories of each are crossed to tell the story of uncle Botão. From the dictatorship to the emigration to France, where he worked as a garbage man, and when he arrived with the van filled with “garbage”he transformed into treasures. What a man uncle Botão clearly was! Laura Gonçalves paints a tender and heart-warming portrait of a hard-working man who seems to have been as eccentric as he was likeable. Café court / Short Talk - (...) #Clermont_FF

“There is a radical desire for the unknown and of otherness”: Soufiane Adel on One Day When I Was Lost
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/There-is-a-radical-desire-for-the-unknown-and-of-otherness-Soufiane-A

The Voyager probe is about to leave our solar system. At the same time, on Earth, Alain Diaw begins his first day of work in a prestigious automobile company. He has come a long way and is also aiming for the unknown. Soufiane Adel’s Le Jour où j’étais perdu (the title is taken from James Baldwin’s book) is a beautiful and graphically ambitious meditation on social, physical and technological mobility, merging an individual’s own desire to reach for the unknown and the ambitions of the global (...) #Clermont_FF

Dwayne LeBlanc on Civic, at the Brasserie du Court
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Dwayne-LeBlanc-on-Civic-at-the-Brasserie-du-Court

CIVIC is a short film that follows Booker on his first trip back home to South Central, L.A. after several years of self-imposed exile. Without any clear motive, or even a warning, Booker returns to the place that holds his origins and the people who shaped him. An impressively mature and reflective debut short by Dwayne LeBlanc. There is a lot to unpack from Booker’s journey through his past, but this gives the film richness and texture as opposed of weighty and opaque complexity. LeBlanc, (...) #Clermont_FF

Interview with Kamal Aljafari, director of Paradiso, XXXI, 108
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Interview-with-Kamal-Aljafari-director-of-Paradiso-XXXI-108

“Nothing can be heard anymore; the roar of our plane absorbs every other sound. We are heading straight to the world’s biggest display of soundproof fireworks, and soon we will drop our bombs.” Palestinian filmmaker and artist Kamal Aljafari has built a solid reputation for his cutting-edge experimental filmmaking over the years, with work shown at the Berlinale, Locarno, Venice.... and here in Clermont-Ferrand! Aljafari’s new film certainly doesn’t disappoint. Its title is taken from a short (...) #Clermont_FF

Salar Pashtoonyar on Bad Omen at the Brasserie
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Salar-Pashtoonyar-on-Bad-Omen-at-the-Brasserie

Set in Kabul, Afghanistan. Pari, an in-house tailor, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses to save her job. I did a double take when Salar came on to this video interview. I’ll be honest and say that I expected him to be a woman. Salar has a real knack for writing female characters. Bad Omen is an intelligent, well-crafted story and I look forward to seeing more of Salar’s work. He joined us at the Brasserie du Court for this quick (...) #Clermont_FF

Sensitive and important well-stitched short: Salar Pashtoonyar on Hills and Moutains
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Sensitive-and-important-well-stitched-short-Salar-Pashtoonyar-on-Hill

Shooting on location in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, director Salar Pashtoonyar uses a thought-provoking yet powerfully humane hybrid of documentary and fiction to delve deep into the experience of a woman forced to the edge of her society. This is the second short Salar has had in competition at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. Bad Omen, which was in competition last year, showcased his ability to write three dimensional and complex female characters. In Hills And Mountains, yet (...) #Clermont_FF

Interview with Enrique Buleo, director of Las Visitantes
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Interview-with-Enrique-Buleo-director-of-Las-Visitantes

3 retired women travel by bus to discover Europe. They’ve recently lost their husbands and now it’s time to start living. They’ve heard people talk about the wonders of tourism all their lives and are dying to experience them firsthand. “I love them, they are so brave!” responded director Enrique Buleo to a question about his feelings towards those three ladies. Why? They have the courage to openly dislike quite a lot of their travels. Good on them for being so blunt! What a change from the (...) #Clermont_FF

Kevin Steen on Daron, Daron Colbert
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Kevin-Steen-on-Daron-Daron-Colbert

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. Kevin Steen’s short is about much more than that though, it is a tender and respectful portrait of a genuinely likeable man. Similar films have had uncomfortable mocking undertones, but there is none of those here. Rather, Steen has opted for a sort of (...) #Clermont_FF

Leo Blandino on Bitume at the Brasserie
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Leo-Blandino-on-Bitume-at-the-Brasserie

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 workers home. By encasing this in a more esoteric depiction of loneliness against the harsh lines of its looming background of trucks and highways, Leo avoids pathos and allows his film to resonate for a long time. How did you happen to think of (...) #Clermont_FF

Sasha Argirov on his film Nurture at the Brasserie
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Sasha-Argirov-on-his-film-Nurture-at-the-Brasserie

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? Nurture just popped into my head one day when I was writing a draft of the script. As a title, it sums up the entire story for me. It also provides the perfect ironic counterpoint to the first image we see at the start of the film. What was it that (...) #Clermont_FF

Joséphine Darcy Hopkins on Les Dents du bonheur
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Josephine-Darcy-Hopkins-on-Les-Dents-du-bonheur

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. #Clermont_FF

Interview with Trinidad Plass, Titouan Tillier and Isaac Wenzek, co-directors of Ressources humaines
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Interview-with-Trinidad-Plass-Titouan-Tillier-and-Isaac-Wenzek-co-dir

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 “recycle what is not of use” and we thought that for once, it would be interesting if the material to be recycled were humans. This led us to the following question: If given the choice, what would we like to be recycled into? The set is mostly composed (...) #Clermont_FF

Yann Gonzalez at the Brasserie - Clermont Film Festival 2023
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Yann-Gonzalez-at-the-Brasserie-Clermont-Film-Festival-2023

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 Festival on (...) #Clermont_FF

Claudia Bottino on A Trois / The Three Of Us
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Claudia-Bottino-on-A-Trois-The-Three-Of-Us

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 development, which highlights the emotional complexity that can define a father and daughter relationship. Italian filmmaker Claudia Bottino discusses her short film, selected in the 2023 National Competition at the Clermont Ferrand Film Festival. (...) #Clermont_FF

The Place That Is Ours - Zena Agha & Dorothy Allen-Pickard
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/The-Place-That-Is-Ours-Zena-Agha-Dorothy-Allen-Pickard

We interviewed the duo for the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, as part of the Brasserie Du Court. A daughter returns to her father’s village in Palestine, which was destroyed in 1948. She journeys through unfamiliar landscapes and is confronted with the reality of her own exile. The film is a moving, experimental and exhaustively researched journey into the displacement and lack of rootedness faced by Palestinians worldwide. It’s an impressive first effort from the two (...) #Clermont_FF

Interview with Ezequiel Salinas and Ramiro Sonzini, co-directors of Mi Última Aventura (My Last Adventure)
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Interview-with-Ezequiel-Salinas-and-Ramiro-Sonzini-co-directors-of-Mi

A poor young man decides to cease to be so, and along with his friend, he tries to flee with a bag full of money from his boss. The last night in his hometown is the two friend’s review, in the form of a farewell, of the places, the emotion and the songs that marked their lives. What was the starting point of the film? The starting point was partly a preliminary work by Ezequiel Salinas, Adieu à la nuit, where a mysterious character rides his moped through the night. In this short film, (...) #Clermont_FF

Interview wih Katherine Propper, director of Birds
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Interview-wih-Katherine-Propper-director-of-Birds

Moments in the lives of Austin teenagers in the heat of Texas summer. How was Birds born? I wanted to make this film, in part, to explore my creative process. My last short film involved a local community of young people whom I spent time with and worked with to make a film about their world. Birds expands on that approach more deeply. This film is more improvised, more off-the-cuff and observational, blurring the lines of doc and narrative in a way that was new for me. It was also my way (...) #Clermont_FF

▻https://www.katherine-propper.com/birds

Interview with Sander Joon, director of Sierra
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Interview-with-Sander-Joon-director-of-Sierra

Parents often push their children to follow their steps. In this case, the father’s obsession with the rally turns the kid into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director’s childhood, Sierra takes us into the surreal car racing world. What inspired you to make Sierra, an animation film that deals with the pressures parents can put on their children? After talking to my friends and acquaintances I found that the pressure from their parents to choose the “right career” is quite common. (...) #Clermont_FF

Interview with Geordy Couturiau, director of La Flûte enchantée [The Magic Flute]
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Interview-with-Geordy-Couturiau-director-of-La-Flute-enchantee-The-Ma

While he is overwhelmed by his debts and coping with his dying mother, Arnaud meets Momo, a magician from his neighborhood with unusual and mischievous behavior. This meeting will not ward off bad luck, quite the contrary. But perhaps the discovery of an old flute may be the solution to all their problems and change their destiny? Tell us a bit about Momo and Arnaud. Are they based on people you know in real life? The character Arnaud gets his name from a close friend of mine, Arnaud (...) #Clermont_FF