World Festivals: Clermont-Ferrand

CLERMONT - FERRAND ISFF - RETROSPECTIVE:DOG
When in 1979 three students organized a screening of about fifty short films at the campus of Clermont-Ferrand university in southern France entitled “Sauve qui peut le court-métrage” (Save Short Film) they had no idea they just started one of the world’s most important short film festivals. This year’s 30th festival screened more than 300 films over nine days and attracted almost 140.000 visitors. Its most popular section was, without any doubt, the “Retrospective: Dog” with 47 films about dogs, with dogs and dedicated to dogs. We have included ten of these films as homage to this exceptional festival.

The Life of a Dog
Aston’s Stones
Phil Touches Flo, directed by David Birdsell
Dog Days
Birds
Prof Nieto Show - épisode 4, directed by Luis Nieto
Oh My Dog, directed by Lydie Jean-dit-Pannel
Pjakkur, directed by H. Sverrisson, V. Johannsson
Maurice and Patapon
The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold