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Interview with Garance Kim, director of Ville éternelle [The Eternal City]  Why the choice of the Seine-et-Marne department as the setting? Who was the inspiration for these two characters?The starting point of this film was a desire for two characters who weren’t supposed to find themselves together to meet. To make this happen, we decided to nourish each one with personal anecdotes. So […]

Interview with Guilherme Xavier Ribeiro, director of Ainda Restarão Robôs Nas Ruas Do Interior Profundo Can you tell us more about the choice of title?Last four years in deep Brazil we were bombarded by robots of far-right movements, financed by the same economic agents that destroy nature and kill people with social vulnerability. By triggering fake news, they create a collective delirium and […]

Interview with Miranda Stern, director of Clean It’s a very candid piece of work. What was the context and what were your motivations for telling this story?Scientific research exploring the self-administration of morphine in animals in the 1970s proved that when rats were offered two water bottles – one filled with water and the other with heroin – the rats would repetitively drink […]

Interview with Azadeh Moussavi, director of 48 Hours The film is a very moving account of a father’s struggle. What inspired you to tell his story?This film is inspired by my own childhood when my dad was a journalist and he was imprisoned for two years. How did you cast the film? And how did you work with the actors to re-create these subtle family […]

Interview with Alvin Lee, director of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Where did the idea for this film come from?          This story is a cumulative memory of my experiences in attending funeral wakes. I realised funeral wake nowadays have little to do with the deceased. In Singapore, we often see family members and funeral wake guests chatting leisurely, discussing business, drinking alcohol, and […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Joséphine Darcy Hopkins about her short film Les Dents du bonheur selected in the 2023 National Competition (F9 programme).

Interview with Jinkyu Jeon, director of The House of Loss   Can you tell us more about the choice of title?Ten years ago, when I was working in a senior care center as a soldier on mandatory duty, everyone was moving forward step by step on their own path, but I felt like I was the only one tied to the place. I don’t want […]

Interview with Ramazan Kılıç, director of Serpêhatiyên Neqewimî [Things Unheard Of] Your previous short was at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. Can you tell us how you came up with this new idea for a film?There is a photograph taken by Reza Deghati in Ağrı, where I was born. On that photograph, two children carry an empty television frame. Reza photographed a moment […]

An interview with Lisa Enes, director of Portør How familiar are you with the hospital as a workplace? Why did you set the film there?In 2016, I started working part-time at the bottom of the hospital hierarchy as a hospital porter – a person who moves patients and vital supplies between departments. Prior to this, hospitals were an unknown world for me. It was […]

Interview with Jan Bujnowski, director of Diabeł [The Devil] Who is the devil here and what does he represent? Why did you choose to portray him this way?      The devil in my film represents all the people who prey on other’s weaknesses and try to make a profit from their misery. How he looks like is defined by the time when the […]