Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market 2022

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – A-list short film festival in France – annually gathers over 50 thousand film admirers from around the world. Because of its importance for the European film industry this festival is often nicknamed the little Cannes festival. Since 2013, Lithuanian short film agency “Lithuanian Shorts” participates in Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market with a National stand. In 2022 for the first time in a Market’s history, Baltic countries had a joint BALTIC SHORTS stand, where visitors will be able to hear about the newest Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian short films, to discuss film industry in Baltic States and to discover new possible collaborations. Moreover, Short Film Market participants will be introduced to the short film events taking place in the Baltic region, such as – Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Baltic Pitching Forum, Baltic Shorts Residency and others.

BALTIC SHORTS is the collective name for the film institutions and festivals from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that present and promote the best Baltic shorts for the international film community. The stand was organized by Lithuanian Short Film Agency LITHUANIAN SHORTS, PÖFF Shorts (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival), Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS, Riga International Film Festival, Latvian Animation Association. Main sponsors: Lithuanian Film Center, Estonian Film Institute, Latvian Film Center.

37th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film market was held in a hybrid format on 31 January – 4th of February, 2022.