2024 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

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2024 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival by Enora Thirion

Stacey Rozich (in second place) surrounded by her fellow members of the 2022 international jury:
Ho Wi-Ding, Julie Bertuccelli, Lionel Baier and Cristèle Alves Meira © SQPLCM

On the occasion of the International Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, from February 2nd to 10th, 2024, the official poster for the 46th festival is designed by American illustrator Stacey Rozich.

Stacey Rozich, an artist, illustrator, and occasional muralist, creates situational vignettes that combine elements of folklore, surrealism, and American pop culture. Her fairy tale world comes to life through the presence of lush patterns and symbols rendered in watercolor and gouache. She offers us a mural overflowing with vivid characters and settings from her imagination and the short films she experienced as a jury member in the previous edition, the International Short Film Festival 2023.

The world that Stacey Rozich portrays offers a multitude of scenarios, much like the numerous short films screened, allowing us the freedom to compose our own narrative.

Enora Thirion

2024 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival by Enora Thirion

Stacey Rozich with the 2024 poster in her Los Angeles living room

© Sam Macon

PRIMETIME

PRIMETIME

Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime returns to the early 2000s, when reality television was reshaping our relationship with truth, spectacle and journalism. With Robert Pattinson at its centre, the film revisits the rise of To Catch a Predator and asks what happens when exposing reality becomes inseparable from making compelling television.

Bucking Fastard – Werner Herzog

Bucking Fastard – Werner Herzog

In Bucking Fastard, Werner Herzog transforms the true story of two inseparable sisters into a strange and poetic meditation on love, obsession and our idea of normality. Played in staggering symbiosis by Kate and Rooney Mara, Jean and Joan Holbrooke inhabit reality according to their own logic, and when the world fails them, they begin tunnelling through a mountain.

Ink – director Danny Boyle

Ink – director Danny Boyle

Danny Boyle’s Ink returns to 1969 and the rebirth of a newspaper that would transform British journalism. Through halftone grain, audacious typography and the restless energy of Fleet Street, the film captures the exhilaration of a rebellion against the establishment, while quietly asking when the desire to inform became the instinct to provoke.