🎬 Ptit Clap 2025: Youth at the Heart of Short Filmmaking
The Ptit Clap Festival 2025 returns to Levallois to celebrate young talents in short filmmaking. This new edition honors the creativity of filmmakers aged 15 to 25 through a demanding official competition and bold, socially engaged screenings.
Why Talk About the Ptit Clap Festival?
Because it highlights what makes cinema truly alive: iitss youth. The Ptit Clap Festival, created in 2010 in Levallois, is dedicated to filmmakers aged 15 to 25. No marketing strategy here, no formulas—just the thrill of a first film, the rush of a first screening, and the urgency to tell a story. In 2024, the festival welcomed over 20,000 spectators, proof that the hunger for emerging creativity is real.
Official Competition – Ptit Clap Festival 2025: Creativity and Diversity
Each year, the Ptit Clap Festival launches a call for submissions in partnership with the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. The only requirements: be aged between 15 and 25, and submit a film under 15 minutes. In 2025, a selection of 11 finalists paints a vivid portrait of young creativity: from the intimate (René, Louve) to the socially conscious (La Blessure, Chers Avengers), and even existential comedy (Super Bernard).
On June 7, 2025, the official ceremony will be held at Pathé Levallois, with film screenings, audience voting, youth and senior prizes, and five jury awards. Presided over by Mariama Gueye (seen in Netflix’s Drôle and director of Les Garants), the jury also includes Mathieu Simonet, Amélie Prévot, Olivier Dussausse, and Philippe Pinel.
Finalists – Ptit Clap Festival 2025: Shorts That Leave a Mark
🎬 La Blessure – France – Dir. Niels Schroder
A brutal confrontation between a teenager and his coach. A restrained direction, palpable tension: a moral gut punch.
🎬 René – France – Dir. Lucien Duléry
A 30-year-old autophobe faces emotional emptiness. Absurd yet touching, somewhere between Wes Anderson and Michel Gondry.
🎬 Amours accidentées – France – Dir. Félix Démurger
A breakup and a marriage proposal collide in a stalled elevator. Sharp dialogue, snappy rhythm: a rom-com with a twist.
🎬 The Act – Belgium – Dir. Nicola Florin
A couple’s argument in a parked car turns metaphorical. Ambiguity borders on thriller.
🎬 Asocial – France – Dir. Sam Nakache
Teenage awkwardness and an unexpected meeting. The camera captures emotion without overplaying it.
🎬 King Ben – France – Dir. Raphaël Toledano
A philosophical fable about truth. A slow pace, serious tone—yet never heavy-handed.
Ptit Clap: A Festival with Educational and Inclusive Goals
What sets Ptit Clap apart? Its commitment all year long: screenings in nurseries, preschool film sessions with educational tools, screenwriting workshops, and storytelling discovery. From early childhood to senior citizens, the festival builds a genuine intergenerational cultural dialogue. In short, it trains the eye.
A Local Action with National Impact
Ptit Clap is a bold municipal initiative, backed by public and private partners (Pathé, BNP Paribas Foundation, Devoteam…). It’s both a talent incubator and a tool for social inclusion. At a time when culture is fragmenting, this festival uses cinema to bring people together.
Why It Matters
Because supporting Ptit Clap means more than backing “youth” or “the image”—it’s supporting creative freedom, the courage to begin, and the need to film. The short format, by nature, forces creators to get to the essence. And in a world of uniform stories, that’s radical.
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