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Voyage, voyage<\/em><\/h2>\n

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Are you coming for the holidays?*<\/strong><\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Inspired by these timeless French pop songs, the 48th<\/sup> Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival\u2019s retrospective invites us to embark upon the dual act of leaving and remembering.<\/p>\n

Like a summertime refrain, it arouses both the desire of escape and the melancholy of returning, of dreamed landscapes and mirages of idleness. By means of these two promises\u2014that of travel and that of holiday\u2014the Festival explores the multiple representations of time suspended between escape from daily life, search of self, the absurdity of collective rituals, and being confronted with the Other.<\/p>\n

In our imaginary, holidays conjure both the escape and the wait, both freedom and constraint, the promise of an idealized elsewhere and, occasionally, the flaring up of personal or social tensions. It is precisely in this zone of contrast that the short film format excels, grasping in just a few minutes the shortcomings, the surprises, and the sparks of truth that surge from these transitory moments.<\/p>\n

Such is the case with Broadcast Club\u2019s film Lila<\/em>, which proposes a bittersweet re-reading of vacation through the prism of teenage nostalgia and that of an ephemeral love story. The film accurately captures the fleeting intensity of summer encounters, moments in which the everyday seems to be suspended. The seaside d\u00e9cor and the late afternoon light suggest a summer that is both real and imaginary, where desire, shyness, and the fear of it all ending are hurled together. Here, vacation is not so much a space to relax, but rather a terrain of emotional initiation in which experience is deeply felt without necessarily lasting. The short film makes this notion palpable: holiday as an awakening of the senses, but also as a scheduled ending.<\/p>\n

This retrospective brings together about 20 films, mixing fiction, documentary, and animation from different eras and countries. Films that are light, funny, or contemplative stand alongside darker narratives, wherein holidays become the stage of a suffocating atmosphere, a break-up, or a rite of passage.<\/p>\n

The showcased films also interrogate the very notion of vacation: for whom? at what price? with what hopes in mind? Through minimalist or gutsy narratives, the filmmakers in this series paint an unexpected panorama of what it means to \u201ctake a break,\u201d whether it is by the seaside, in a trailer, on a suburban balcony, or in the depths of oneself.<\/p>\n

Resonating with contemporary cultural practices and social issues, this retrospective adopts an approach that is both cinephilic and popular. It speaks to all generations, proposes a reading at various levels of one universal theme, but is never neutral.<\/p>\n

Like always at Clermont-Ferrand, short film here plays its role of a discoverer, of a mirror that exaggerates our habits, our desires, our contradictions. Cinema on Holiday <\/em>is therefore not only a summer-themed program, it is a way to reexamine, through image, our need to collectively take a deep breath.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And seeing as it is also a question of freedom, let us recall the words of Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s Breathless<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“If you don’t like the sea<\/em>, if you don’t like the mountains, if you don’t like the big city, screw you!”[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

*Title of a French song by the French pop duo David et Jonathan (1988).<\/h6>\n

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And as an added bonus\u2026<\/h4>\n

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6 exhibitions<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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No fewer than six exhibitions will explore the theme of vacations:<\/p>\n

– The traditional thematic exhibition organized by Clermont-based artists will take place in a new venue.<\/p>\n

– Kiblind<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0will present D\u00e9tours de France<\/em><\/strong>, featuring 44 illustrations at the H\u00f4tel Mercure from January 16 to February 8.<\/p>\n

– The resource center at La Jet\u00e9e will host Vacances !<\/em><\/strong>, a film poster exhibition from January 27 to February 26.<\/p>\n

– Clermont-based photographer Marielsa Niels<\/a>\u00a0will exhibit her photo series Vacances en autarcie, 2004<\/em><\/strong> at the Maison de la Culture from January 30 to February 7.<\/p>\n

– The St\u00e9nop\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0association will present J\u2019arrive bient\u00f4t, je suis en route<\/em><\/strong>, a photographic series by Clermont art student Thelma Le Roux, at its gallery starting January 30.<\/p>\n

– You\u2019ll also find a photographic exhibition by the Monstre<\/a> collective at L\u2019Imaginarium, starting January 30.<\/p>\n

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Find at the festival shop a selection of goodies specially designed and created for this retrospective \u2014 perfect for your next getaway!<\/p>\n

In collaboration with Californie Fran\u00e7aise<\/a>, we\u2019ve put together a range of caps, bucket hats, and socks featuring Le Court<\/em>\u2019s signature style. Among our limited-edition merchandise, you\u2019ll also find a fan inspired by the 2026 Festival poster illustrated by Karolis Strautniekas.<\/p>\n

And for the first time, as part of our CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) goals, Flax Couture<\/a> has reimagined and recycled former Festival materials into a variety of practical and colorful goodies, including tote bags, glasses cases, pouches, and luggage tags.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re almost ready to hit the road!<\/p>\n

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Selection committee<\/h4>\n

Fanny Barrot, Agn\u00e8s Reure, Bertrand Rouchit.<\/p>\n

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