Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival: (1/31-2/8/03). (Festival Wraps).

Take One | March 1, 2003| | Copyright

Canada was a major presence at the 25th annual Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival--located in a picturesque medieval town north of Paris--with two special retrospective programs devoted solely to Canadian cinema. In the general screenings, 25 recent Canadian shorts were shown, several with the filmmakers present. The retrospective screenings ranged from Mes esperances en 1908 (Leo-Ernest Ouimet, 1908), a two-minute silent film made with Ouimet's children, to the NFB's classic Glenn Gould: On the Record (Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor, 1961), in which Gould's playing of J.S. ...

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