Author Archive

  Interview with Will Goodfellow, director of The Spa    The film is both funny and quite sad, often simultaneously. Were you keen to provoke such a reaction in your audience? Would you say your cinematic work is often in this vein? Absolutely, yeah. I wanted it to feel bittersweet! I haven’t made enough films to say that creating this feeling state is part of […]

  Interview with Alejandro Roca Rey, director of Wañuy    Could you tell us more about “Wañuy”, and its significance in the film? Why does the psychic mention it?  “Wañuy” in Quechua means “to die”. But as you may know, Quechua is a really profound and tricky language, just like us, human beings. Its conjugation is rather complicated and it may vary in different […]

  Interview with Areej Abu Eid, director of A Very Hot Summer    Would it be fair to compare your film to a poem (structure, first-person narration etc.)? I think my story is more than that, it’s deep in its emotions, it’s the story of every Gazan who has lost their homes and loved ones in the war.  Why did you choose to show […]

  Interview with Yennifer Uribe Alzate, director of Como la Primera Vez (Like the First Time)    What were you seeking to explore in Rosa’s relationship with Dalia? Sexuality? Love? Empowerment? My intention was that Rosa understands that she had an intimacy of her own, which she had never explored, independently of her husband, her son, her home duties and her environment. I wanted […]

Interview with Igor Kovalyov, director of Before Love     Can you tell us about your animation style? What led you to choose this field? Of course, since my childhood, I have painted a lot. There were no foreign animated films on Soviet TV, so I enjoyed old Soviet animated films. When I took on animation in 1972, I was dramatically influenced by the animated film The […]

  Interview with Jac Clinch, director of The Alan Dimension     Who or what is the inspiration for Alan? Are there any autobiographical elements in there? The idea for Alan came from my own experience of very intense deja vu. I would feel like I’d seen a moment in a preceding dream, but I found it funny that these pre-ordained moments were incredibly mundane, […]

  Interview with Annika Pinske, director of Homework  The relationship between father and daughter is very moving. Could you tell us about the casting process? The casting process was quite unusual, because I had my cast before I had the story. In fact, I wrote the script for Tim and Emma. Tim is my boyfriend so, as expected, I know him quite well. I […]

  Interview with Amrosh Badr, director of Haga Sa’a (Something Cold)     Firstly, could you tell us about your choice of title? It’s a little bit tricky because in Egypt when we say “something cold”, we mean Cola, and there is that boy who gives Cola bottles to the people and to the main character in the final scene, but it also means that every character has “something cold” […]

  Interview with Elettra Pierantoni, scriptwriter of Semiliberi (Half Free)     What do you mean by Semiliberi? Would you say Alessandra is “half-free” after what she decides to do? Semiliberi is a play on words and it means that Alessandra will be half free, but the word “semi liberi” also stands for “free semen” so it’s a pun which refers to the prisoners’ […]

  Interview with Albéric Aurtenèche, director of Sigismond sans images (Sigismond without pictures)   Can you tell us about Sigismond’s insistence that he is Echo and not Narcissus? Thanks for this marvelous question which actually touches the essence of the film. With the development of the mobile phone over the past decade, the « digital revolution » gave us an absolute control on images, from their creation straight […]