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Interview with Ida Melum, director of Night of the Living Dread Night of the Living Dread is really relatable. Were you inspired by your own experience with anxiety?Absolutely. I find it fascinating how you can have a perfectly normal day, and then, at least for me, as soon as my head hits the pillow, my mind starts racing. I was always an anxious […]

Interview with Théo Jollet, director of Le Boug Doug [Meet Doug] Why did you want to play with the question of forbidden acts: theft, trafficking, manipulation and so on?The initial idea for the character Doug that came out of my discussions with my long-standing collaborators Martin Maire and Thomas Trichet (together we form the trio JTM) was to come up with a young […]

Interview with Faustine Crespy and Laetitia de Montalembert, co-directors of Cataracte [Cataract]  What inspired you for Nicky’s character? Is she based on someone you know?To write Cataracte, we were inspired by two people close to us, both middle-aged and very courageous, who have no computer skills and who for years were subjected to impersonal interviews and intrusive checks at home. These two friends […]

Interview with Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, director of The Headhunter’s Daughter Can you tell us a bit about your inspirations and the story behind The Headhunter’s Daughter? What inspired you the main character?My main inspiration for The Headhunter’s Daughter is the cultural landscape of my hometown of La Trinidad, Benguet and the greater Cordilleran region. Populated by diverse northern tribes (Igorots), the region […]

Interview with Peter Tscherkassky, director of Train Again What has inspired you for Train Again?I found that wonderful footage of trains leaving a tunnel and approaching the camera – another time something highly reminiscent of the Brothers Lumière film Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, which already had inspired my film L’Arrivée in 1997. From here it was a little step […]

Interview with Samir Karahoda, director of Pa Vend [Displaced] How did you decide on this topic and protagonist to make a film about?I have been familiar with this story since the first years after the war of Kosovo which is sometime in 2004-2005. My close friend who is one of the main characters had returned from Germany and he started playing again as […]

interview with Marine Levéel, director of L’Homme à la Mercedes pourpre How did you come up with the character Annie and what did you want to explore through her story and her relationship with her daughter?I came up with Annie through observing several people I know from generations that precede mine. By hanging out with them, I wanted to talk about the complexity […]

Interview with Johan Tappert and Gustav Egerstedt, directors of Det Sista Äktenskapet [The Last Marriage] How was the film born?I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that humans seem to adapt so quickly to extreme situations. Even a huge disaster like a war cannot stop people from having dinner with their friends in the ruins and argue about the bill afterwards. Normality seems […]

Interview with Boyoung Kim, director of A Guitar in the Bucket What is your link to guitars and to music?I’m very interested in sound and like music very much. If I hadn’t become an animation director, I think I might have become a musician. The reason I used a music instrument in this project was that I needed a tool that could express […]

Interview with Valentin Stejskal, director of 5pm Seaside Where did the idea of 5pm Seaside come from?The film was built on a love story a truck driver shared with me. Fifteen years ago, he was in love with his buddy in the Greek military, but since then he wasn’t able to talk with anyone about it. He isolated himself to protect this memory […]