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Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Aurélie Reinhorn about her short film Raout Pacha selected in the 2020 National Competition (F5 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École.

  Interview with Andrew Betzer, director of Important Police Shit Can you explain the title? The title is supposed to sound like police slang. A term that only police use, in this case to describe the rights and trials that they go through in their training. The title is made up, but I feel that it sounds very authentic. I’m surprised the term does […]

Watch the interview with the Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi about her short film The Present selected in the 2020 International Competition (I10 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École.

  Interview with Thanasis Neofotistos, director of Route-3 So, what is Route-3? Is it an actual bus route in Sarajevo? Why did you choose this one? Yes. Route-3 is the main historic route of the tram in Sarajevo. The tram was a gift from Vienna after the war and Route-3, where the film is shot, is the only route that goes through the centre […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Yves Gellie about his short film L’année du robot selected in the 2020 National Competition (F9 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École.

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Mehdi Benallal about his short film Madame Baurès selected in the 2020 National Competition (F6 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École.

  Interview with Alessandro Di Gregorio, director of Frontiera What motivated you to focus on Lampedusa? Me and the screenwriter, Ezio Abbate, wanted to tell a story about what was happening in the Mediterranean Sea. Ezio read a newspaper story about the tragedy of 3 October 2013, when 368 migrants died near Lampedusa. It was the biggest migrant tragedy ever heard. In that article, […]

  Interview with Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, director of Winter in the Rainforest Can you explain the title to us? Winter in The Rainforest started on my first trips to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and a rainforest in the Sierra Gorda mountains in Mexico. I got the idea to shoot a stop-motion film in the tropical nature. I come from Estonia, a Nordic country with […]

  Interview with Julietta Korbel, director of Still Working What inspired you tell Pavel’s story? I guess the name Pavel is somehow symbolic. It is the name of my painter grandfather, whom I was very close to and who brought me up. He was a Hungarian-Slovak immigrant, who came to Switzerland in 1968. When he passed away, I inherited his painting studio in Montreux, […]

  Interview with Lars Vega, codirector of I Väntan På Döden [Awaiting Death] How did you come up with the story of this relationship? I was told a story from my friend Annica Zion that her grandparents were talking about Swedish meatballs when the grandmother was in hospital. I thought there was something funny about talking about something so unimportant in a place which is […]