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10 Must-Watch Shorts at Clermont-Ferrand 2025
Clermont-Ferrand, the world's top shorts festival, values local audience expectations and industry standards, offering filmmakers unique visibility.
Over the course of 14 bruising minutes, director Benoît Méry immerses viewers into the mosh-pits and security perimeters of the Hellfest heavy metal festival, embedding right in the heart of the action with a non-judgmental eye and a taste for explosive visual spectacle. Heralded in Annecy and winner of the top prize at the LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, this autobiographical, mixed-media doc follows the Ukrainian filmmaker’s own tale of escape and survival. World premiering out of Clermont-Ferrand’s national competition, “The Devil and the Bicycle,” follows an adolescent girl raised in a mixed-faith household whose discovery of sensuality supersedes any kind of religious awakening.
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