
In a previous article we saw dates and jury, here are the finalists for the 2020 edition of Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, held from 31st January to 8th February 2020.
Short film finalists for the national competition
Film country is just France unless indicated
- À l’ouest by Jérémie Cousin
- L’ âge tendre by Julien Gaspar-Oliveri
- Aline by Simon Guélat (France, Switzerland)
- Amour(s) by Mathilde Chavanne
- Anna Vernor II by Eduardo Carretié
- L’ année du robot by Yves Gellie
- L’ appartement by Raphaël Frydman
- Bab Sebta by Randa Maroufi (France, Morocco)
- Blaké by Vincent Fontano (France, La Réunion)
- Car les hommes passent by Assia Piqueras, Thibault Verneret
- Ce n’est qu’après by Vincent Pouplard
- Champ de bosses by Anne Brouillet
- Clean with Me (After Dark) by Gabrielle Stemmer
- Dibbuk by Dayan David Oualid
- Disciplinaires by Antoine Bargain
- Electric Swan by Konstantina Kotzamani (France, Greece)
- Fin de saison by Matthieu Vigneau
- Genève by Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas
- Genius Loci by Adrien Merigeau
- L’ heure de l’ours by Agnès Patron
- Je serai parmi les amandiers by Marie Le Floc’h (France, Belgium)
- Je vais là-bas aussi by Antoine Cuevas
- Jusqu’à l’os by Sébastien Betbeder
- The Loyal Man by Lawrence Valin
- Madame Baurès by Mehdi Benallal
- La maison (pas très loin du Donegal) by Claude Le Pape
- Marie Boudin by Margot Barbé
- Mars colony by Noël Fuzellier
- Massacre by Maïté Sonnet
- Les méduses De Gouville by Paul Nouhet
- Mémorable by Bruno Collet
- Metamorphosis by Juanfran Jacinto, Carla Pereira (France, Spain)
- Miss Chazelles by Thomas Vernay
- Mortenol by Julien Silloray
- Moutons, loup et tasse de thé by Marion Lacourt
- My Little China girl by Sam Azulys
- Olla by Ariane Labed
- La place du mort by Victor Boyer
- Plot by Sébastien Auger
- Poussière by Clémentine Carrié
- Premier amour by Haris Raftogiannis (France, Greece)
- Qu’importe si les bêtes meurent by Sofia Alaoui (France, Morocco)
- Raout Pacha by Aurélie Reinhorn
- Shānzhài Screens by Paul Heintz
- Teen Horses by Valérie Leroy
- Têtard by Jean-Claude Rozec
- Tio Tomás, a Contabilidade dos Dias by Regina Pessoa (France, Portugal, Canada)
- Tout va rentrer dans le désordre by Cheyenne Canaud-Wallays
- Traces by Hugo Frassetto, Sophie Tavert Macian (France, Belgium)
- Une chance unique by Joël Curtz (France, Belgium)
- Une fille moderne by Noé Debré (France, Israel)
- The Van by Erenik Beqiri (France, Albany)
- La veillée by Riad Bouchoucha
- Yandere by William Laboury
Short film finalists for the international competition
- 16 de Decembro by Álvaro Gago Diaz (Spain)
- 405 by Shanawaz Nellikunnil (India)
- Abisal by Esteban Santana (Chile)
- Accompany by Haeseong Jeong (South Korea)
- Adiós, Adiós, Adiós by Ricardo Castro (Mexico)
- All The Fires the Fire by Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis (Greece)
- An Arabian Night by Pierre Mouzannar (United Kingdom, England, Lebanon)
- Apfelmus by Alexander Gratzer (Austria)
- Bonde by Asaph Luccas (Brazil)
- Cayenne by Simon Gionet (Canada, Quebec)
- City of Children by Arantxa Hernández Barthe (United Kingdom, England)
- Cum înalți un zmeu? by Gábor Loránd (Romania)
- Da Yie by Anthony Nti (Belgium, Ghana)
- Daniel by Claire Van Beek (New Zealand)
- Darikiken by Hugo Pepper Guevara (Peru, Argentina)
- The Distance between us and the Sky by Vasilis Kekatos (Greece, France)
- End-O by Alice Seabright (United Kingdom, England)
- Ertidad by Mohammed Alhamoud (Saudi Arabia)
- Family Plot by Shuichi Okita (Japan)
- Fort Irwin by Quinn Else (USA)
- Frontiera by Alessandro Di Gregorio (Italy)
- Girl in the Hallway by Valerie Barnhart (Canada)
- Hãy tỉnh thức và sẵn sàng by An Pham Thien (Vietnam, USA, South Korea)
- Henet Ward by Morad Mostafa (Egypt)
- Hot Dog by Marleen Valien, Alma Buddecke (Germany)
- Hydebank by Ross Mcclean (United Kingdom, Scotland, Northern Ireland)
- I Love Lotus by Patricia Ramos Hernández (Cuba, Nicaragua)
- I väntan på döden by Lars Vega, Isabelle Björklund (Sweden)
- Important Police Shit by Andrew T. Betzer (USA)
- Invisivel Heroi by Cristèle Alves Meira (Portugal, France)
- Je finirai en prison by Alexandre Dostie (Canada, Quebec)
- Kachalka by Gar O’Rourke (Ireland)
- Kohannia by Mykyta Lyskov (Ukraine)
- Lefty/Righty by Max Walker-Silverman (USA)
- The Loyal Man by Lawrence Valin (France)
- La maison (pas très loin du Donegal) by Claude Le Pape (France)
- Mama by Anastasia Borisova (Russia)
- Mamapara by Alberto Flores Vilca (Peru, Argentina, Bolivia)
- The Manila Lover by Johanna Pyykkö (Norway, Philippines)
- Mascot by Leeha Kim (South Korea)
- Matchen by Pia Andell (Finland)
- Matriochkas by Bérangère McNeese (Belgium, France)
- Mujer Sin Hijo by Eva Saiz (Spain)
- Il Muro Bianco by Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi (Italy)
- Nacht Ueber Kepler 452b by Ben Voit (Germany)
- No Flowers or Seasons by Chia-Hsuan Yu (Taiwan)
- Nor tarva goji by Alexsander Baghdasaryan (Armenia)
- On ne mozhet zhit bez kosmosa by Konstantin Bronzit (Russia)
- Oslo by Shady Srour (Israel, Germany, Palestine)
- Physique de la tristesse by Theodore Ushev (Canada)
- Potop by Kristijan Krajnčan (Slovenia, Croatia)
- The Present by Farah Nabulsi (Palestine, Qatar)
- Pulsión by Pedro Casavecchia (Argentina, France)
- Quebramar by Cris Lyra (Brazil)
- Route 3 by Thanasis Neofotistos (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece)
- Rykoszety by Jakub Radej (Poland)
- Servİs by Ramazan Kılıç (Turkey)
- She Runs by Qiu Yang (China, France)
- Sh_t Happens by Michaela Mihályiova, David Stumpf (Czech Republic, Slovakia, France)
- Skewwhiff by Robin Summons (Australia)
- Sodom & Gomorrah by Curtis Essel (Ghana, United Kingdom, England)
- Sol del Llano by Manuela Irene Espitia (Mexico, Colombia)
- Sorry Not Sorry by Julia Thelin (Sweden)
- Sousaphone by Flo Linus Baumann (USA, Switzerland)
- Still Working by Julietta Korbel (Switzerland)
- Stray Dogs Come Out at Night by Hamza Bangash (Pakistan, United Kingdom, England)
- Tak Ada yang Gila di Kota Ini by Wregas Bhanuteja (Indonesia)
- Tienminutengesprek by Jamille Van Wijngaarden (Netherlands)
- Die Tinte trocknet nicht by Felix Herrmann (Germany)
- To Sonny by Maggie Briggs, Federico Spiazzi (USA, Italy)
- Togrøvere by Martin A. Walther (Norway)
- Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves by Chintis Lundgren (Estonia, Croatia, France)
- Tradition by Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze, Elmar Imanov (Germany, Georgia)
- Udahnut zivot by Thomas Johnson, Ivana Bosnjak (Croatia)
- Un coche cualquiera by David Pérez Sañudo (Spain)
- The Visit by Azadeh Moussavi (Iran)
- Warum Schnecken keine Beine haben by Aline Höchli (Switzerland)
- The Water Will Carry Us by Shasha Huang (China)
- What Did You Dream? by Karabo Lediga (South Africa)
- Winter in the Rainforest by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg (Estonia, Lithuania, Mexico)
Short film finalists for the lab competition
- 49 Years From the House on the Left by Sevgi Eker (Finland, Turkey)
- Acid Rain by Tomek Popakul (Poland)
- Average Happiness by Maja Gehrig (Switzerland)
- Blessed Land by Lan Pham Ngoc (Vietnam)
- Blue Boy by Manuel Abramovich (Germany, Argentina)
- California On Fire by Jeff Frost (USA)
- Carrière de Pissy by Eliott Chabanis (France, Burkina Faso)
- Cultes by (LA) HORDE, Marine Brutti, Arthur Harel, Jonathan Debrouwer (France)
- Don’t, Kiss .mov by Carl Olsson, Fabio Liberti (Sweden)
- Duszyczka by Barbara Rupik (Poland)
- Former Cult Member Hears Music For The First Time by Kristoffer Borgli (USA, Norway)
- Freeze Frame by Soetkin Verstegen (Belgium, Germany, Finland)
- Günst ul vándrafoo by Jorge Cantos (Spain)
- How to Breathe in Kern County by Chris Filippone (USA)
- El Infierno y Tal by Enrique Buleo (Spain)
- Kaksi Ruumista Rannalla by Anna Paavilainen (Finland)
- Kids by Michael Frei (Switzerland)
- Mega Sexy Robot Dinosaur by Paul Howard Allen (United Kingdom, Wales)
- Meridian by Calum Walter (USA)
- Mustererkenntnis by Thorsten Fleisch (Germany)
- Në Mes by Samir Karahoda (Kosovo)
- Pitch Black Panacea by Tom Hardiman (United Kingdom, England)
- Rise by Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin De Burca by (Brazil, Canada, USA)
- Slug Life by Sophie Gate (United Kingdom, England)
- Swinguerra by Benjamin De Burca, Bárbara Wagner (Brazil)
- Le Taxi de Sun City by Thomas Trichet (France)
- Tomorrow I Will Be Dirt by Robert Morgan (United Kingdom, Wales)
- Yoakemae no KoiMonogatari by Chunni Lin, Pang-Chuan Huang (Taiwan, Japan)
- Zombies by Baloji (Belgium, Congo, Rep. Dem)