The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival presents UK highlights from the festival's Lab Competition from 2022/2023. The festival is one of the largest and most prestigious short film festivals in the world.

The event will include Q&As with Man Or Tree actor Daniel Campbell (Dungeons and Dragons, Knightfall), and sound designer Dominic Fitzgerald (Scale) and will be followed by networking in the bar after the screening.

Buy a ticket to two of the Clermont-Ferrand evening screenings for the discounted price of £15, buy a ticket to 3 screenings for £20. This applies to the following screenings- the LAB Competition, The French Competition and The International Competition. Prices will automatically update in your basket.

FILMS SCREENING:

45th Parallel 

The film explores the contradictions of borders and the laws that govern the liminal space of the Haskell Free Library and Opera House. (Jury Special Mention)

dir. Lawrence Abu Hamdan | United Kingdom | 2022 | 15min

The Debutante

A spirited young woman persuades a hyena from London Zoo to take her place at a dinner dance held in her honour. Their plan requires a surprising amount of artistry and violence. (Jury Special Prize)

dir. Elizabeth Hobbs | United Kingdom | 2022 | 8min

Hideous

Popstar Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame and blood. A three-part musical short. (Grand Prize)

dir. Yann Gonzalez | United Kingdom | 2022 | 22min

Man or Tree

A tree in the wilderness becomes convinced it's actually a man tripping on hallucinogens.. (Student Prize)

dir. Varun Raman, Tom Hancock | United Kingdom | 2022 | 4min

Prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia uses expressive animation to investigate intimacy, communication and memory. Sketchbooks, photographs and diaries unravel to tell a unique and personal story. (Grand Prize)

dir. Steven Fraser | United Kingdom | 2021 | 10min

Scale

Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug addiction deepens, he struggles to unpick the sequence of events that led to his predicament, before he's lost forever. (Audience Prize)

dir. Joseph Pierce | France, United Kingdom | 2022 | 15min

Tindersticks - See My Girls

The film is a collaboration with Stuart’s daughter Sidonie. “After much preparation and experimentation, she made a continuous, layered illustration of her interpretation of the song.”

dir. Stuart A. Staples, Sidonie Osborne Staples | United Kingdom | 2022 | 5min