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Interview with Annabelle Amoros, director of Churchill, Polar Bear Town How did you become aware of the town of Churchill and its complex situation with polar bears?I’ve known about the town of Churchill for years. When I was a child, I saw a picture of a polar bear being transported in a net beneath a helicopter. I made the connection later, around 2013, […]

Interview with Jean-Baptiste Alazard, director of Saint Jean-Baptiste [Saint John the Baptist] Where do the film’s images come from? Can you tell us more about the local festivals?The film is composed of images from two “sources”. There are shots that I took myself, from a kind of journal that I’ve kept for the last ten years, or forgotten drafts. I filmed these shots […]

Interview with Joanna Kozuch, director of Bolo Raz Jedno More… [Once There Was a Sea…] What made you decide to shoot a film about the situation of the Aral Sea region? Can you tell us a bit about the context of your visit there in 2008?The idea of making this film came to mind during my 6-week trip to Central Asia in 2008. […]

Interview with Amélie Bonnin, director of Partir un jour [Bye Bye] How did you come up with the character Julien? Why did you choose Normandy? The idea was simply the personal sense that I have of belonging to the place where I grew up, and of always having this ambiguous feeling each time I go back. On the one hand I tell myself I […]

Interview with Gulistan Mirzaei and Elizabeth Mirzaei, directors of Three Songs for Benazir How did you meet Benazir and Shaista? What decided you to make a documentary about them?We have known them for over 11 years. We first met Shaista in the camp when we were there for a different volunteer project. We felt we had known him for all of our lives. […]

Interview with Julien Gaspar-Oliveri, director of Marianne How did your desire to make this film come about?I would like to specify that the scenario is by Julie Debiton. I am not the author of this film which is something I’ve never tried before in all my previous work. Marianne was commissioned to be part of a collection for France Télévision with female leads. […]

Interview with Julia Siuda, director of Furia [Fury] How did you imagine the physical depictions of contrariety and growing anger?It was quite simple because the body abuse methods (head) were closely related to the source of the sounds that irritated me. For example, munching, as I imagine it, comes from the tongue. That is why I tear out the character’s tongue. It’s supposed […]

Interview with Danil Ivanov, director of Holodno [It’s Cold] What has inspired you to shoot Holodno?On YouTube, I found a video where a former police officer was telling the story of how he and his partner, in his youth, were carrying the corpse of a fisherman on New Year’s Eve. The buses didn’t run and they had to pick up some passengers from […]

Interview with Ingrid Chikhaoui, director of Trois grains de gros sel [Three Grains of Coarse Salt] Is it fair to describe Trois grains de gros sel as a coming-of-age story? Do the two children come into their own?The film is about what it’s like growing up with an unstable parent; about the strategies children adopt to live with that. The children (and their mother) are […]

Interview with Lotfi Achour, director of Angle mort [Blind Spot] Why did you want to present this story using a first-person testimonial?All the details mentioned in the film are real facts that I was able to corroborate in several ways: the trial, witness accounts from the victims and the family, police reports, the judicial order… The more I dug around and went deeper, […]