YOUNG AUDIENCE COMPETITION

A LA MODE by Jean LecointreFrance / 2020 / 8‘40Production: 2.4.7 Films, SchmubyIn a kingdom tormented by fashion crazes, a queen and her court must always keep up with the new trend. If not, an abominable monster will consume them: the Ridicule.

UN CAILLOU DANS LA CHAUSSURE by Eric MontchaudFrance, Switzerland / 2020 / 11‘30Production: XBO, NadasdyA student arrives in his new class. He is not a student like the others - he is a frog in a class of rabbits.

SHORT FILMSOUR FILMS IN COMPETITION AT CLERMONT 2021

OFFICIAL COMPETITION – LAB

EMPTY PLACES by Geoffroy de CrécyFrance / 2020 / 8‘30Production: Autour de MinuitCompleted before the global lockdown, Empty Places is an ode to the melancholy of machines.

HOMELESS HOME by Alberto VázquezFrance, Spain / 2020 / 15‘Production: Autour de Minuit, UnikoNo one can escape their roots, however rotten they may be.

ORGIASTIC HYPER-PLASTIC by Paul BushDenmark, UK / 2021 / 7‘Production: Late Love, Ancient MarinerAn animated extravaganza of plastic collected from beaches, roadsides, attics and junk shops.

CONCATENATION 1 & 2 by Donato SansoneItaly / 2020 / 2x1‘Production: Milkyeyes1. A destructive sequence of infinite consequences...2. A chain reaction as new Olympic discipline

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SHORT FILMSOUR FILMS SELECTED AT CLERMONT 2021

OPENING CEREMONY

THE EXTERNAL WORLD by David O‘ReillyGermany / 2010 / 15‘Production: Detail FilmA boy learns to play the piano.

OST CHALLENGE

PULSIONby Pedro Casavecchia Argentina, France / 2019 / 7‘Production: Nicolas Casavecchia, Atlas VA kid growing up in a dysfunctional family. A psychological thriller following the character along a spiraling descent into madness, piecing together the portrait of a killer.

HURLEVENTby Frédéric DoazanFrance / 2019 / 6‘30Production: Frédéric Doazan, 12fpsThe wind blows and browse through the book of the alphabet creatures.

THE LAB IS CELEBRATING iTS 20TH ANNIVERSARY!

WITH A BOXSET OF 20 CULT FILMS

Including a 52-page bookletand many bonuses

AVAILABLE JANUARY 29thPre-orders open now!

On sale at Les Volcans shop inClermont-Ferrand and at

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• A 52-page booklet• 5 hours of films• 20 award-winning films including: Reruns,

Swatted, A Family Portrait, Hopptornet, Ghost Cell, The External Word, MRDRCHAIN...

• Digital version of the films + exclusive bonuses

Coffret Blu-Ray including :

SPECIAL SCREENING - POLAR

RONDE DE NUIT (The Night Watch) by Julien RegnardFrance, Belgium / 2021 / 10‘ / No dialogueProduction: Autour de Minuit, SquarefishA couple rushes out of a glamorous party. On their way home, an argument leads to a brutal car accident. When George regains consciousness, Christina has disappeared. He will then experience a real descent into hell.

IL GATTO by Donato SansoneItaly / 2020 / 7‘ / Italian dialoguesProduction: MilkyeyesA severed head. A dead cat. An invitation to a journey of dreams and nightmares.

SWALLOW THE UNIVERSE by NietoFrance / 2021 / 12‘ / Japanese dialoguesProduction: Autour de MinuitThe grandiloquent blood-and-thunder saga of a young child lost in Manchuria’s deep jungles. His sudden presence creates complete anarchy in the fauna’s primitive world, which was until-then perfectly organized.

HOME by Anita BruvereUK / 2019 / 8‘ / English dialoguesProduction: Ajay Arora, Anita BruvereA true story of community, immigration, and diversity, told through the history of a single building.

SCHAST‘E (Happiness) by Andrey ZhidkovRussia / 2020 / 5’ / Russian dialoguesProduction: Andrey ZhidkovIn a cold repulsive world of chaos, a man is searching for his true happiness hoping that simple things can evolve into bliss. But his attempts end up in abyss of loneliness and poverty.

SHORT FILMS NEW FILMS IN DISTRIBUTION CATALOGUE

ABSENCE by Marc HéricherFrance / 2021 / 10‘ / French dialoguesProduction: Autour de MinuitA homeless man collapses violently on the ground, and remains frozen on all fours. The journalists‘ sudden interest in this man takes us into a grotesque and absurd media vortex.

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DVD FOCUS ON ROSTO

Rosto was a Dutch artist, director, illustrator and musician. Each of his works is an initiatory journey between reality and imagination, in a rock atmosphere.

THEE WRECKERS TETRALOGY (2019 / 70’)Including : No Place Like Home (2009) / Lonely Bones (2013) / Splintertime (2015) / Reruns (2018)+ Everything’s Different, Nothing Has Changed, a 20’ documentary about Rosto and Thee Wreckers.

THE MONSTER OF NIX (2011 / 30’)Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix... until an all-devouring monster appears.

MIND MY GAP TRILOGY (2005 / 25’)Including : Beheaded (1998) / (The Rise and Fall of the Legendary) Anglobily Ferverson (2002) / Jona/Tomberry (2005)

ALSO AVAILABLE: Rosto’s graphic novel Mind My Gap, collector vinyle, DVDs & flipbook...

FOCUS ON DONATO SANSONE

Nieto is a perversionist artist persecuted by animal defensors and Hare Krishnas. His films and performances are insane experiments and experiences.

IN CATALOGUE: Swallow The Universe (2021) / Metacinema appliqué (2014) / Rabbid (2011) / Lazarov (2010) / Finger Fighter (2010) / Capucine (2009) / A la baguette (2007) / Prof Nieto Show (2006-2007) / Far West (2006) / Carlitopolis (2005-2006)

FOCUS ON JOSEPH PIERCE

SHORT FILMSREADY MADE PROGRAMS

Donato Sansone is the Italian genius of animation. Mixing animation and live action, his world is made up of funny, sexy and crazy visual experiments.

IN CATALOGUE: Il Gatto (2020) / Concatenation 1&2 (2020) / X.Y.U (2020) / Ghost Crash (2019) / Bavure (2018) /Robhot (2017) / Journal Animé (2016) / Portrait (2014) / Topo Glassato Al Cioccolato (2011) / Grotesque Photobooth (2012) / Videogiocco (2009) / Love Cube (2003)

FOCUS ON NIETO

Joseph Pierce is the British master of rostoscopy…with a sharp sense of humour, his work has been multi awarded in festivals over the world!

IN CATALOGUE: Stand Up (2008) / A Family Portrait (2010) / The Pub (2012)

FRESH OUT OF SCHOOL, PAUL VERLAINEA collection of short films about poetryFrance / 2020 / 13x3’Production: Tant Mieux Prod

IN CATALOGUE: Seasons 1 to 6Prévert, Desnos, Apollinaire, Eluard, Roy, Tardieu 2015-2019 / 6 x (13x3’)

EL AFTER DEL MUNDO by Florentina GonzalezFrance / 10‘ / Spanish dialoguesProduction: Autour de Minuit

COMPLETION: MAY 2022

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CARPINCHOS by Alfredo SoderguitFrance, Uruguay / 8‘ / No dialoguesProduction: Autour de Minuit, Palermo Estudio

TODOS LOS FUTUROS by Barbara CerroFrance / 10‘ / No dialoguesProduction: Autour de Minuit

SHORT FILMS PRODUCTIONS COMING SOON

THE CHILD FROM THE DEPTHS by Denis GaubertFrance / 45‘ / French dialoguesProduction: Autour de Minuit, Association Jacques Henri Lartigue

COMPLETION: MAY 2022

THE GOOSE by Jan MikaFrance, Czech Republic / 10‘ / No dialoguesProduction: Animation People, Autour de Minuit

COMPLETION: JUNE 2022

SECOND EMPIRE by Denis GaubertFrance / 15‘ / French dialoguesProduction: Autour de Minuit