Author Archive

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Matthieu Salmon about his short film Invisibles selected in the 2023 National Competition (F7 programme).

Watch the interview with the Indian filmmaker Varun Chopra about his short film Holy Cowboys selected in the 2023 International Competition (I3 programme).

Interview with Valentine Caille, director of Amarres  What did you wish to explore through Livia and Louis’ relationship? The complexity of sibling love. I think that brothers and sisters are capable of experiencing extreme emotions for each other; they can unconditionally hate and love one other. I initially wanted to make a film about the personal journey of a sister faced with her brother’s […]

Interview with Salar Pashtoonyar, director of Koha wa Tapaha [Hills and Mountains] In Koha wa Tapaha, we hear the voice of the main character as she tells her story, but we don’t see her. What was your intent behind this choice?  There are two reasons. One was a creative choice and the second out of a solution to an obstacle imposed on us. Creatively, […]

Interview with Casandra Campo Ernst, director of Baile Entretenido [Fun Dance] Your film features a lead character who comes back home and reunites with her former friends. Did you have any real-life experiences which led you to write about the topic?We wrote the script together with Tiare, who is also the protagonist of the short film and a great friend. Everything arose from […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Xavier Debeir Lacaille about his short film Un dernier été selected in the 2023 National Competition (F4 programme).

Interview with Eli Jean Tahchi, director of Des voisins dans ma cour  What can you say about the wall that separates Mont-Royal, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Montreal, from Parc-Extensions, a neighborhood where immigrants and some of the city’s poorest people live? Since 1960, a fence made of chain links and steel rods, lining the Boulevard de l’Acadie—two meters high, 1.6 kilometers long, […]

Watch the interview with the Vietnamian filmmaker Vũ Nguyễn Nam Khuê about his short film A Lost Astronaut And a City of Footprints selected in the 2023 International Competition (I12 programme).

Interview with Mino Capuano, director of Sciaraballa What did you wish to explore through the relationship between Dario and Mimmo, his son? The goal of this film was to tell a simple emotion: embarrassment. So I wanted to tell about the incommunicability between a father and a son. In a universal condition of anxiety about the future, a father’s plea for help collides with […]

Watch the interview with the Belgian filmmaker Michael Abay about his short film Klette selected in the 2023 National Competition (I3 programme).