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Interview with Pierre Schlesser, director of L’Huile et le Fer [Iron and Oil] What interested you about the machine noises and gestural movements shown in the film?First off, I wanted to talk about bodies exhausted from labor. So I lingered on repetitive movements that wear you out. And then, I think it’s the philosopher Giorgio Agamben who says of films that they’re “the […]

Interview with Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard, Nicolas Mayeur, Étienne Moulin, Hadrien Pinot, Lisa Vicente, Philippine Singer, Alice Letailleur, co-directors of Les Larmes de la Seine [Seine’s Tears] Was the choice to focus on the demonstration of 17 October 1961 generally agreed upon, or was it the subject of discussion within the group?As we were discussing what sort of film we were going to […]

Interview with Andrea Szelesová, director of Sestry [Sisters] Can you tell us a bit about your inspiration and the story behind the story of Sestry?I thought for a long time what my graduation movie would be about. I had too many emotions I struggled to express. Problems at home, a loved one struggling with addiction and myself struggling with my self-worth. Many ideas had […]

Interview with Laure Desmazières, director of Voyage à Santarém [Trip to Santarem] What inspired you to make this film?It’s a mix between my own personal experience and the temperament of my actress, Julia Perazzini. Julia had a small role in my previous film. I love her composure, her wit, her sometimes explosive presence. She has something you can love and hate. I wanted […]

Interview with Marian Freistühler, director of Die Geheimnisvollen Inseln [Islands in the City] Did the lockdowns and more generally the pandemic draw you to make a film that deals with the ideas of longing and loneliness?It may sound paradoxical, but what I observed during the first contact restrictions was the opposite of loneliness. There were a few weeks in Hamburg’s spring 2020 when […]

Interview with Victor Boulenger, director of Sourdingue (Deaf as a Post) What led you to make Sourdingue?Different ingredients:– Acquiring a hearing aid was an important purchase that I’ve had to make for a while now, in fact being hard of hearing is part of who I am.– Imagine that in addition to the strange typo in my name, my father was actually an […]

Interview with Gina Kippenbroeck, director of Ensom Cowgirl [Lonely Cowgirl] How was Ensom cowgirl born?It started with a feeling and a mood, more than an actual plot or idea for a character. During a long and dark Copenhagen winter, I moved into a new apartment which had a quite dystopian view from the living room window. I did most of my developing and […]

Interview with Carlos Segundo, director of Sideral Have you ever dreamt of flying or going into space?I’ve personally never wanted to go to space. Perhaps I’m a bit curious. What attracts me to space is its immensity and infiniteness. In Sidéral, space appears as the real possibility of a spatio-temporal suspension. But of course, it also affects our imagination. Was the theme of […]

Interview with George-Alex Nagle, director of Mate What did you seek to explore through the relationship between John and Jack?For my co-writer Daniel Corboy and myself, the starting point of this film was questioning “what would my thirteen-year-old self-think of my thirty-year-old self?” Although both characters and their relationship to one another did evolve greatly throughout the writing process, and although we were […]

Interview with Vincent Le Port, director of La Marche de Paris à Brest [Walking from Paris to Brest] What led you to give this film an “old-fashioned” effect, bringing it closer to your inspiration Walking from Munich to Berlin by Oskar Fischinger, with this series of short shots interspersed with white cuts?Before filming, I ran lots of tests in both analog and digital, […]