Author Archive

Interview with Morad Mostafa, director of Khadiga Is Khadiga based on someone you know? What motivated you to tell her story? Khadiga is a character we all know, and she exists in all societies in different forms and ways. What prompted me to tell this story is that it is a story that I’d like to tell because it affects me very much and […]

Interview with Jean-Baptiste Durand, director of Vrai gars [Big Boy] Could you explain your choice for the title?For me the title has a double meaning and may be interpreted in two ways. In the beginning, Sami is a “real guy”, in the hypermasculine, macho, a bit of a street-smart rogue sense of the word. Whereas, on the contrary, at the end he is […]

Interview with Anne-Sophie Bailly, director of La Ventrière [The Midwife] Why did you choose to use the Middle Ages to tell this story? And why set it in the Jura mountains?The Middle Ages is a very broad historical period, and is sometimes very caricatured. In the film, I depict the late Middle Ages, or even the early Renaissance, around 1600, and that’s a […]

Entretien avec Assaad Khoueiry, réalisateur de A Broken Fan Can you tell us more about the conditions that have led your protagonist to take action? When you are the only breadwinner in your family and you have to provide them with food and the most basic needs of life, pay the school tuition fees, the rent and the bills. Then you find yourself jobless […]

Interview with Rakan Mayasi, director of Trumpets in the Sky Is the character of Boushra based on someone you know?The character of Boushra, if we speak about characterization, is not based on anyone. The destiny of Boushra, the idea of being forced to marry someone at 14 years old is based on my grandmother’s story. My grandmother was forced to get married when […]

Interview with Janloup Bernard, director of J’avais un camarade [I Had a Comrad] Why did you choose a military school as the setting for your story? Is it an environment that you know well? In my previous short films, I have already explored exclusively male environments. In choosing a military institution as the setting, I wanted to explore the theme of virility in a […]

Interview with Daniel Cook, director of The Bayview Tell us more about the Bayview. How did you come across the place? How familiar are you with the area?The Bayview sits on the edge of a traditional fishing village called Macduff in the North East Coast of Scotland. Over the last few years, the local youth who live there are choosing other less risky […]

Interview with Victor Trifilieff, director of Les Curiosités du mal [The Hunt of the Unicorn] Could you tell us how you came up with the title? What do you think of the English translation?I like it when a film’s title has a certain poetry to it, a hint of mystery even before you’ve seen the first images in it. I’d rather the title […]

Interview with Olivier Bayu Gandrille, director of TNT Why did you choose to set the story during the 2005 riots? It wasn’t so much a choice as a desire to stay true to my operating principle: my initial intention was to talk about a part of my teenage years in the suburbs of Paris. As it happens, those years were strongly marked by the deaths […]

Interview with Simon London, director of That Workman’s Arm What motivated you to tell the story of these two characters? What did you want to explore through their relationship?I was interested in telling a story about understanding. I wanted to bring two characters together who might see each other in a unique and forgiving way, even though they have been pitted against each […]