Author Archive

Watch the interview with the Hungarian filmmaker Kálmán Nagy about his short film Az Utca Másik Vége selected in the 2023 International Competition (I12 programme).

Watch the interview with the British filmmaker Richard Misek about his short film A History of the World According to Getty Images selected in the 2023 International Competition (I6 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Manon Tacconi about her short film La Bouche en cœur selected in the 2023 National Competition (F12 programme).

Watch the interview with the Swiss-Portuguese-French filmmaker Aurélie Oliveira Pernet about her short film As Sacrificadas selected in the 2023 International Competition (I1 programme).

Interview with Przemyslaw Adamski and Katarzyna Kijek, co-directors of Slow Light Can you tell us more about the medical condition? Did you come across something similar in real life?It is a fictive medical condition but it’s rooted in scientific research. “Slow light” is a term used in physics to describe a wave of light that was slowed down way below its fundamental physical constant. Danish physicist […]

Interview with Shao Tzu Lin, director of Summer Rain  What did you want to explore through Kao Li-Hsuan and Kao Cheng-Hsuan’s relationship?During the pandemic in 2021, I went back to my hometown and spent two months with my mom and my brother. Although we had our phones to use and spent so much time on social media, we still felt very bored. Ten years […]

Interview with Clara Anastácia and Gabriela Gaia Meirelles, co-directors of Escasso  What inspired you to make a mockumentary? It’s quite an original format! Clara: I wanted to portray the performative state of the present time. Not only the scene’s time, but also the speech, which always appears to be spontaneous. Inspired by YouTube videos and the works of the documentary maker Eduardo Coutinho, I […]

Interview with Soufiane Adel, director of Le Jour où j’étais perdu [One Day When I Was Lost]  alk to us about the bond that unites the Voyager and Alain’s journey.The Voyager space mission was started by NASA in the 70s with the goal of exploring the solar system and of sending signals of our societies on Earth to potential alien civilizations. It was […]

Watch the interview with the American filmmaker Dwayne LeBlanc about his short film Civic selected in the 2023 International Competition (I14 programme).