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Interview with Júlia de Paz Solvas, director of Harta How was Harta born?Harta was born as a response to the violence that women live daily and the little representation and listening that sons and daughters who live surrounded by this violence get to have both socially, culturally, politically and judicially. Our goal is to give a voice to those people who at the […]

Interview with Sander Joon, director of Sierra What inspired you to make Sierra, an animation film that deals with the pressures parents can put on their children?After talking to my friends and acquaintances I found that the pressure from their parents to choose the “right career” is quite common. Especially for those who studied arts or film. Having the pressure from parents to […]

Interview with Cristèle Alves Meira, director of Tchau tchau What was the context for you coming up with Tchau tchau ? This film comes out of a particular context, when the world stopped, in March 2020. It comes from a sense of urgency, a need to talk about that very strange time of our history when a pandemic cut us off from a fundamental ritual […]

Interview with Tack Lee, director of Wasteland How was Wasteland born?After finishing film school, I quickly began thinking about my next film. The first one had dealt with a very personal story, so I wanted to orient the next one towards a more current story and one that was more connected to today’s society. That’s when I got this idea for the film’s […]

Interview with Luis E. Parés, director of Los Conspiradores [The Conspirators] How did you decide on this topic and protagonists to make a film about?I love the films in which there is a character who tells a story. I love listening to stories, to listen to somebody telling a story. I don’t care if it’s true or false what he is talking about, […]

Interview with Lubna Playoust, director of Le Cormoran [The Cormorant] What interested you in the mother-daughter relationship?Childhood bonding and its evolution through time, and the subtle elements that reveal that evolution. Why did you want to work on the unfolding of time? Do you see yourself making other films on the subject?As Kierkegaard said: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must […]

Interview with Ezequiel Salinas and Ramiro Sonzini, co-directors of Mi Última Aventura (My Last Adventure) What was the starting point of the film?The starting point was partly a preliminary work by Ezequiel Salinas, Adieu à la nuit, where a mysterious character rides his moped through the night. In this short film, there was a very special way of filming at night in the […]

Interview with Esther Mysius et Camille Rouaud,co- directors of Blanc Ninja Where did the idea come from for making a film about illegal mining in Mongolia?The origins of the film were an animated conversation we had with a Mongolian friend and drawings on a smartphone: a herder wearing traditional garb perched on a Honda, his yurt decked out with a satellite dish, dreaming […]

Interview with Ahmed Abdelsalam, director of CAI-BER Is the character of Nour based on someone you know?The character of Nour is a portrait of my generation, facing social oppression and the urge to flee and find home somewhere away. But honestly, she was particularly based on my two best friends, Nagat and Passent. We have had a long journey trying to find home […]

Interview with Lisa Giacchero, director of L’Arrivée du soleil dans votre signe [The Sun’s Entry Into Your Sign] Are the characters Karine and Sylvain based on real people? How did you come up with the idea for their meeting?I’ve travelled alone frequently and observed that, among solitary travelers, there are those who intend to remain alone and those who take every opportunity to […]