Author Archive

Interview with Julien Regnard, director of Ronde de nuit [Night Watch]  Where did you get the idea for the couple in the film? The story in the film is based largely on my personal life. It’s coated over by the animation, the genre, the film’s atmosphere, all that… But the story is still pretty autobiographical.  How would you describe your animation style?  Réactionnaire ? Non le […]

Interview with Michael Bohnenstingl, director of Slouch  How personal is the story? Are you basing it on experience or someone you know?  Back in Ludwigsburg I spent a lot of time making music and hanging out at our rehearsal room complex with other musicians. At some point I noticed an interesting paradox: many of the musicians (especially the good ones) felt that their inspiration came from […]

Interview with Aurélie Reinhorn, director of Son Altesse Protocole Why did you want to make a film in an amusement park? Were you inspired by a similar park that you’ve been to?I wanted to talk about insecure employment by looking at the mechanics of oppression and domination, where cynicism reached a peak when managerial techniques adopted the idea of “happiness at work”. Those […]

  Interview with Judah Finnigan, director of Workshop Is this workshop based on anything you’ve actually done in real life? I’ve never done a workshop quite like this one. As I started writing the short, I’d just gotten back from a very intense directing workshop in L.A., which involved a lot of physically charged exercises and role-play. I’d also been doing therapy for a year or […]

  Interview with Sarah Blok and Lisa Konno, codirectors of Baba What motivated you to tell Baba’s story? Baba (Ceylan Utlu) is a very interesting character because of his ambiguity. On the one hand he is a very well educated, erudite, smart man and on the other hand, he completely denies that life didn’t quite go according to plan. Ceylan came from Turkey to […]

  Interview with Salar Pashtoonyar, director of Bad Omen Can you tell us more about your choice of title? We were at a wedding ceremony. I was probably around 12 years old. One of the wedding traditions is that guests go up to the stage to take photos with the bride and groom. I noticed my mom didn’t participate in that. I asked her […]

  Interview with Bertille Estramon, director of Chienne [Bitch] What motivated you to tell this story? I started out wanting to make a film about the feeling of injustice. I thought back on the events that I had experienced or the stories I had been told… Then, I wanted to see a strong female character, who doesn’t let herself be pushed around. I wanted […]

  Interview with Zoé Pelchat, director of Lune [Moon] Why did you choose to title the film Lune? Because the main character repeats a mantra throughout the film that says “Je mérite la lune” which means “I deserve the moon” – I deserve the very best. Because of that the moon (lune) kind of became the emblem of the film. In the film, Babz, […]

  Interview with Mara Cerri and Magda Guidi, codirectors of Sogni al Campo  Is the boy based on someone you know or some kind of personal story? The child does not represent anyone in particular, he is any child who finds himself facing growing up. Of course the story contains fragments from our own lives, but it becomes a universal story. Can you tell […]

  Interview with Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, director of Hilum (Remedy) Can you explain the choice of title? Hilum means two different things in our language. In the Tagalog language, “hilum/hilom” means “remedy”, while in the Visayan language it means “silence”. I grew up in Manila where we speak Tagalog, while my mother grew up in the Visayan region where they speak Bisaya – […]