The 47th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival is set to begin in just under a month. Following the announcement of the films selected for the four main competitions, the festival has rounded out the 2025 program by announcing the XR Panorama, Young Audience screenings and a spotlight on short films by the new generation of African filmmakers. This global selection features animated gems throughout.
Clermont-Ferrand is the world’s leading event dedicated to short films. Organized by the Sauve qui peut le court métrage association, the 47th festival (and its short film market) will take place from January 31 to February 8, 2025 in the heart of central France’s picturesque Auvergne region.
In the International Competition, animation lovers will be treated to Florence Miailhe’s Papillon (France), the documentaries I Died in Irpin (Czech Rep., Slovakia, Ukraine) by Anastasiia Falileieva and Percebes (Portugal) by Alexandra Ramires & Laura Gonçalves, the latest Job, Joris & Marieke short Quota (Netherlands) and Number 32. Giant Fish from South Korean animator Seunghyun Si.
Representing the always compelling French animation scene, the National Competition includes Fabienne Wagenaar’s Sweeter Is the Night, Basile Khatir’s My Teenage Blackout, Roberto Catani’s Il Burattino e la Balena (The Puppet and the Whale), Natalia León’s Como Si la Tierra se las Hubiera Tragado (As If the Earth Had Swallowed Them), Cheyenne Canaud-Wallays’ My Very Own Football!, Camlle Monnier’s Ashen Sun (France/Belgium), Marie Viellevie’s Kaminhu and François Leroy & Stéphanie Lansaque’s Sisowat Quay.
The Grand Prix winners in both the International and National competitions at Clermont-Ferrand are eligible for Academy Awards consideration.
And of course, while animation plays an extensive role in the Young Audiences programs tailored to a range of age groups, there is also a glimpse of the continent’s up and coming animation landscape in the African Perspectives lineup with Kim Yip Tong’s documentary Black Tide (France/Reunion Island/Mauritius), about the 2020 MV Wakashio oil spill — the greatest ecological disaster to ever strike the Mauritius region.
The full roster of films is now available online. Learn more at lecourt-clermont.org.
