75 short films compete for Clermont Ferrand 36th edition.

26th International Competition

The International Competition is a rare moment, full of magic, where films from a wide spectrum intersect. Animated gems, documentaries, brilliant comedies, down-to-earth fictions, genre films or graduation shorts from some of the finest film schools out there will undoubtedly take you on a unique journey into young film creation. 

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  In Search of Livingstone

  Vera Sölvadóttir / Iceland / 2013 / Fiction / 16'37

  Thor and Denni go in search of tobacco during a prolonged civil servant strike which has created a shortage. They use all means in their desperation to get their hands on a cigarette and constantly believe that tobacco euphoria is around the next corner.

   
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  The Incredible Shrinking Man

  Baik Kim / South Korea / 2013 / Fiction / 11'54

  Jaemyeong gets fired from his job but he cannot tell his wife, Migyeong. One day, Jaemyeong sees that Migyeong is having an extramarital affair with a neighbor. Jaemyeong becomes isolated from the world. His miserable plight is the same as an eel in the fish tank.
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  Les Jours d'avant

  Karim Moussaoui / Algeria, France / 2013 / Fiction / 40'00

  Now adults, Djaber and Yamina each recount childhood memories of their neighborhood in the south of Algiers. During the 1990s, only boredom reigned. In a few days, what was first muffled violence in the rest of the country will explode around them.
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  Juke-Box

  Ilan Klipper / France / 2013 / Fiction / 23'00

  Danny is a singer who, having had his moment of glory, has now fallen into oblivion. He spends his days holed up in his apartment. How can you be well-known one day and unknown the next? Will there be a new success? His obsession borders on madness.
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  Junk Head 1

  Takahide Hori / Japan / 2013 / Animation / 30'22

  After a conflict between humans and clones, the clones have been driven far below, to the lower levels of the city. Now, 1,200 years later, humans are sending a research pod down below to study the clones' habitat.
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  Kay Pacha

  Alvaro Sarmiento / Peru / 2013 / Fiction / 13'20

  Maribel and Carmencita are two indigenous girls who work in Cuzco Central Square taking pictures with the tourists in exchange for a tip. Leoncio, Maribel's father, doesn't have a regular job, which causes fights with Ines, his wife and the rest of the family.
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  Keeping Up with the Joneses

  Michael Pearce / United Kingdom, England / 2013 / Fiction / 27'50

  Celia is kidnapped by two criminals looking for her politician husband but as they track him down, a more personal crisis begins to emerge.
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  Killing Phillip

  Adam Gunser / New Zealand / 2013 / Fiction / 13'10

  When seven-year-old Charlie is forced into killing his imaginary friend, an internal battle spills over into an external crisis.
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  Madama Esther

  Luck Ambinintsoa Razanajaona / Madagascar / 2013 / Fiction / 15'00

  Madama Esther, a cleaning lady in her fifties, has just lost her job. As she cannot keep her promise to take her grandson to the sea, she accepts an offer to host illegal cockfights in her backyard - a world filled with angels and crooks in equal measure.
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  MeTube: August Sings Carmen 'Habanera'

  Daniel Moshel / Austria / 2013 / Experimental / 04'00

  A homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet, who have attracted international attention.
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  Meu amigo Nietzsche

  Fáuston da Silva / Brazil / 2013 / Fiction / 15'00

  The improbable meeting between Lucas and Nietzsche will be the beginning of a violent revolution in the mind of the boy, within his family and within society. At the end he is no longer a boy, he is dynamite!
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  Minerita

  Raúl De la Fuente / Spain, Bolivia / 2013 / Documentary / 27'00

  Cerro Rico in Potosí (Bolivia) is a lawless territory, characterised by brutal violence. The miners risk their lives every day, digging for silver and zinc in crumbling galleries. The ones that survive think they’re entitled to anything and everything. And that’s...
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  Montauk

  Vinz Feller / Switzerland / 2013 / Fiction / 16'00

  Elisabeth's husband commits suicide. His last wish was to travel to Montauk where the couple met years ago. So Elisabeth embarks on a last journey to the US together with the ashes of her late husband. A journey synonymous with anger, acceptance and reconciliation.
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  Namo

  Salah Salehi / Iran / 2013 / Fiction / 29'50

  In the Iran-Kurdistan border zone, a police sergeant and a soldier have to bury the body of an unidentified person who has committed suicide. They want to bury the corpse in a nearby village but they are faced with public opposition.
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  Nashorn im Galopp

  Erik Schmitt / Germany / 2013 / Animation/Fiction / 15'00

  Bruno roams the streets of Berlin with his head full of questions, looking for what's behind the many facades and surfaces. He is seeking the soul of the city, that little something that others might never notice. He unexpectedly meets an ally.
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  Ni-Ni

  Melissa Hickey / United States / 2013 / Fiction / 19'20

  In a Mexican border town, a lonely street thug yearns for a better life after he bumps into a girl from his past and remembers the boy he used to be.
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  No Kaddish in Carmarthen

  Jesse Armstrong / United Kingdom, England / 2013 / Fiction / 12'18

  Gwyn is confused. Who is he, how should he act? He's 15 and neither of these things are clear. He's on the edge of being eased out from his daily visits to see his best friend's girlfriend, he's on the verge of getting beaten up. Can he survive the beating and protect...
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  Ojcze Masz

  Kacper Lisowski / Poland / 2013 / Fiction / 33'27

  Marcel is a punk rock musician. Although he's already passed the forty-year mark, he still hasn't settled down. Following the "No Future" slogan, he lives from gig to gig and from party to party. Then, one evening, he meets Basia, an old friend. The idea is that she'll...
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  Olga

  Kaur Kokk / Estonia / 2013 / Fiction / 19'52

  Olga, the elderly guard of a downtown parking lot, spends her days cleaning the car park of snow that just won't stop falling. As the snow piles up, her problems start to accumulate. In the middle of a personal crisis, the weather takes a turn for the worst and Olga is...
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  A Onda Traz, O Vento Leva

  Gabriel Mascaro / Brazil, Spain / 2012 / Documentary / 28'00

  Rodrigo is a young deaf man from Recife, northeast Brazil who works installing car stereos in a small dealership on the outskirts of the town. Despite his deafness, sound penetrates his day-to-day life and he harnesses its vibrations, allowing it to pulse through his...
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  Paratiisin avaimet

  Hamy Ramezan / Finland / 2013 / Fiction / 27'00

  Iran, 1984. Homeless brothers Majid (14) and Adel (12) try to survive their daily lives in a war-torn country. They attend school and work in their spare time, but life gets harder day by day.
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  Perception

  Miranda Nation / Australia / 2013 / Fiction / 14'35

  Crystal, single mother and stripper, is diagnosed with breast cancer. Faced with her own mortality, she is forced to confront how she really feels about herself and her relationships with those close to her.
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  Pork & Luna

  Xiaoyu Du / China / 2013 / Fiction / 28'33

  Luna is an ordinary girl who works in a hair salon. She lives at her boyfriend Jiabao's place. However, his mother Yang is a controlling woman who works at a pork processing factory. Luna's manager has taken a liking to her but is afraid of Jiabao's threat.
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  Pride

  Pavel Vesnakov / Bulgaria, Germany / 2013 / Fiction / 30'00

  Manol, a retired general and loving grandfather, is a patriarch of firm morals and fixed beliefs which he has always upheld in his household. But on this day he learns that the boy he's raised is gay. The life choices of his loved ones challenge his values in a battle...
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  Puma, mi bienamado

  Nadina Marquisio , Laura Martinez Duque , Tom Maver / Argentina / 2013 / Experimental / 06'30

  Goodbyes are static: only time is in motion. Images rush past the window where light is reflected, while the Argentine poet Osvaldo Bossi departs from his hometown, finding his own voice, liberated and eager like a puma mesmerized by fire.
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  Red Hulk

  Asimina Proedrou / Greece / 2013 / Fiction / 27'27

  Giorgos lives on his own in Athens. He lacks purpose, self-confidence, identity and peer acceptance. He fills the void by "becoming" the Red Hulk, as he is known at his football team's fan club. Until the day he gets involved in racial violence, entailing new problems...
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  Rhoma Acans

  Leonor Teles / Portugal / 2012 / Documentary / 14'00

  A journey of self-discovery undertaken by the director in order to understand the true identity of her Gypsy heritage - from the history of her own family to the story of a young Gypsy inside the tradition.

   
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  Selma

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia / 2013 / Fiction / 20'00

  Following the death of her husband, a taxi driver, Selma decides to get a grip. In order to secure a better life for herself and her daughter, she embarks upon a daily struggle, a modest but truthful and sincere fight.
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  Sequence

  Carles Torrens / United States, Spain / 2013 / Fiction / 20'00

  What if you wake up one day and realize the entire world has dreamed about you?
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  Shopping

  Vladilen Vierny / France, Germany / 2013 / Fiction / 08'30

  The supermarket is about to close. A boy hurries with his last minute shopping.

   

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    Sin respuesta

    Miguel Parra / Spain / 2013 / Fiction / 10'30

    Lola suffers through the pressures of the day but she does her job without giving it too much thought. She works as a telemarketing phone operator for a financial institution. From her tiny cubicle she phones those who owe the company money to remind them that when it...
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    Solidarity

    Dustin Brown , Michael Huang / United States / 2013 / Fiction / 21'00

    Two illegal immigrants in Los Angeles, dealing with loss, unknowingly connect through collective action.
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    Springtime

    Erica Liu / Taiwan, Singapore / 2013 / Fiction / 13'06

    Xiao Zhu is a lonely, 86-year-old pork-sung maker from rural Taiwan. Her "answering-machine son" refuses to return her calls and she yearns for change and adventure. So, one day, Xiao Zhu packs her life up in a creaky blue suitcase and heads off to Taipei to find her...
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    Subconscious Password

    Chris Landreth / Canada / 2013 / Animation/Experimental / 10'55

    A forgotten name leads to a mind-bending romp through a game show of the unconscious.
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    Techos Rotos

    Yanillys Perez / Dominican Rep, France / 2013 / Fiction / 16'30

    Young Ana is facing the hardships of living her childhood with an absent mother who plays cards. She dreams of having a normal family, of making her first communion and getting the white dress required for the ceremony. Unfortunately, it is difficult for her to follow...
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    That Afternoon We Went to See the Pandas

    Ric Aw , Yue Weng Pok / Singapore / 2013 / Fiction / 22'00

    A young couple from Chengdu, China, struggles to build a perfect home in Singapore. As their dream of becoming Singaporeans seems more and more remote, they decide to go and see the pandas.
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    Though I Know the River is Dry

    Omar Robert Hamilton / Palestine, United Kingdom, England, Egypt / 2013 / Fiction / 19'30

    He has returned to Palestine. On his journey through the country he relives the trauma of his past and the choice that sent him to America - a choice between a passport for his unborn child and a safe haven for his activist brother.
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    Ud, spring over, ind

    Thomas Daneskov / Denmark / 2013 / Fiction / 26'00

    When Rasmus goes to the family home to visit his dad after many months without contact, he is met with his worst fear. His dad has momentarily lost his mind while camping out alone in the family summerhouse and drinking heavily while trying to complete a sci-fi novel.
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    Un lugar mejor

    Moisés Romera , Marisa Crespo / Spain / 2013 / Fiction / 04'00

    Thimbo wants to be a football player. Malik dreams of managing his own business. Demba just thinks of going to a better place.
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    Un pays de silences

    Paul Tom / Canada, Quebec / 2013 / Documentary / 22'54

    I was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and arrived in Montreal at the age of one with my parents. In August 2010, I went to Cambodia for the first time, a country my father hadn't returned to in thirty years. Everybody told me that this trip would change my life.
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    Wardyat Yanayer

    Emad Mabrouk / Egypt / 2013 / Fiction / 13'40

    Ibrahim goes about his daily life routine and fulfills his job duties, on January 25 during the Revolution in Egypt.
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    The Way Back

    Halla Kim / South Korea / 2013 / Fiction / 23'08

    A man feels burdened because his uncle has been living off him for a very long time. Although he feels sad for the old man, taking care of him has become too hard. As he is looking for a place for his uncle to stay, he stumbles upon an article about old people.
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    Welkom

    Pablo Munoz Gomez / Belgium / 2013 / Fiction / 17'34

    Jorge loves his father. His father loves a chicken. Jorge doesn't like the chicken, he wants it in a henhouse. Before building the henhouse, Jorge needs a license. But it's hard to get something when your garden is in Flanders and you don't speak Flemish.
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    Xe tai cua bo

    Mauricio Osaki / Brazil, Vietnam / 2013 / Fiction / 16'00

    Ten-year-old Mai Vy skips school to help her father with his passenger truck for hire. Mai Vy is soon confronted with shades of morality and some harsh realities as she learns how things, outside the classroom, really are.
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    Zima

    Cristina Picchi / Russia / 2013 / Documentary/Experimental / 11'27

    A portrait of a season, a journey through North Russia and Siberia, a reality where the boundary between life and death is almost nonexistent, where civilization both fights and embraces nature and its millenarian rules. A reflection on life, adaptation and the...