Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with a population of 143,886 (2017). Its metropolitan area had 485,315 inhabitants at the 2017 census. It is the prefecture (capital) of the Puy-de-Dôme department. Olivier Bianchi is its current mayor.
Ursula Meier is a French-Swiss film director and screenwriter who received the Best Director award at the 2008 Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême [Angoulême French-language Film Festival] for her first theatrical feature, Home, which won the 2009 Swiss Film Prize for Bester Spielfilm as well as Bestes Drehbuch. The film also received a César nomination for Best First Film and a Best Film nomination at Argentina's Mar del Plata Film Festival.
Over the Fence is a Finnish short film written by Ilmari Aho and Hamy Ramezan and directed by Hamy Ramezan. The screenplay for the film took part in a scriptwriting competition organized by The Finnish Film Foundation and The Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE in early 2008. Out of 53 submitted screenplays, Over the Fence was selected to be produced. The film was shot in April 2009 with €170,000 budget.
Luc Plissonneau is a French screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing the short films Fil Rouge,Angela est partie, and Les Mains.
Red Balloon is a 13-minute thriller short film directed by Alexis Wajsbrot and Damien Mace. It is adapted from the "clown statue" urban legend.
The Cassava Metaphor is a 2010 film.
The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival is an international film festival dedicated to short films held annually in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Adastra Films is a film production and distribution company based in Cannes, France. It was founded in March 2008 by Sébastien Aubert and David Guiraud.
Leyla Bouzid, is a Tunisian screenwriter and film director.
Samuel Collardey is a French film and television director and cinematographer noted for his work in the Docufiction genre.
Isabelle Balducchi, is a French screenwriter, director and producer.
Joan Chemla is a French film director.
Le Mans 1955 is a computer-animated short film from 2018 directed by Quentin Baillieux and produced by Nicolas de Rosanbo & Carole Lambert inspired by the 1955 Le Mans disaster. The short has been presented in a number of festivals including in the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2019, and won awards such as the St. Louis International Film Festival for Best Animated Short Film award, qualifying it for the Oscars.
Sherif El Bendary is an Egyptian film director, writer and producer. His debut feature film was Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim.
Sarah Van Den Boom is a French animation film director and co-founder of the Papy3D Productions production company.
Olla is a 2019 drama film, written and directed by Ariane Labed, starring Romanna Lobach, and Grégoire Tachnakian. It follows Olla, a woman from eastern Europe, who responds to an advertisement on a dating site. She moves in with Pierre, who lives with his old mother in a suburb in France.
Bonobo is a 2018 Swiss short film directed by Swiss director Zoel Aeschbacher as a graduation film for his directing studies at the ECAL. The film premiered at 2018 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival where it won the Audience Award. It has been selected and awarded at several film festivals including Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Brooklyn Film Festival where it won the Best Short Film Spirit Award. In September 2019 the film received the Oscar Qualifying Gold Medal for "Best Narrative" (International) at the Student Academy Awards.
Nefta Football Club is a 2018 live action short film directed by French director Yves Piat. It has been selected and awarded at several film festivals including Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival as well as Aspen Shortsfest, where it won the Oscar Qualifying Jury Award for Comedy.
Moon is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Zoé Pelchat and released in 2020. The film stars Joanie Martel as Babz, an ex-convict working as a waitress in a diner, who is set on a path to redemption when she works up the courage to ask a customer out on a date.
Mohamed Chrif Tribrak is a Moroccan filmmaker and screenwriter.
