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Interview with Lila Pinell, director of Le roi David What gave you the urge to tell Shana’s story? Are some of the characters drawn from examples or experiences you have had in real life?I’ve wanted to tell Shana’s story since meeting the actress who plays her, Eva Huaut. I’ve known her since childhood and I’d lost touch with her for 7 years. When […]

Interview with Olive Nwosu, director of Egúngún [Masquerade] How was Egúngún born?Egúngún was born from a desire to investigate my own feelings about the idea of “Home”. As a wanderer, who has lived in many identities, this is a question I often grapple with: this sense of different lived lives, and possibilities of lives. How Fate takes us down one road – and […]

Interview with Martin Jauvat, director of Grand Paris Express What interested you about shooting on the work site of the Grand Paris Express?I live in Chelles, just to the east of Paris, where huge construction sites have colonized the town for several years. Same for the RER E line that I take just about every day to get to Paris: work sites are […]

Interview with Alejandro Alonso, director of Abisal [Abyssal] The ship-breaking yard appears to be the perfect filming location for Abisal, that deals with spirituality and ghostly presence. How did you come up with this idea? We discovered the ship-breaking yard by navigating through Google Earth. From a satellite view, Bahía Honda is full of small, rectangular-shaped spots. Understanding that they were destroyed ships in […]

Interview with Nicolas Panay, director of Le Point de reprise [Breakpoint] How interested are you in the topic of blue collar working conditions, and do you plan to make other films on this topic?Without mentioning it, I wanted to talk about my adoptive region, the Aube, which used to be the flagship of the textile industry and still has some beautiful remnants to […]

Interview with Michael Graversen and Florian Elabdi, co-directors of Ghosts of Mória What made you decide to make a documentary about the refugees from the camp of Moria?Moria was Europe’s largest refugee camp and, in many ways, it became a symbol of Europe’s handling of the refugee crisis for the past years where our core human values were put to the test. A […]

Interview with Ramata-Toulaye Sy, director of Astel Where did inspiration for Astel come from?From my personal experience, from the strong bond I had with my father when I was young and my fear of entering the female “world” at an age when I wasn’t ready yet. The story, Astel’s story, is one I lived through, not in Senegal but in France, in Bezons, […]

Interview with Pablo Serret de Ena, director of Useless Opera Singers How much are you related to absurdism?Not much really, or at least consciously. It usually interests me whenever there is a conflict between meanings, or when these are created by confronting apparently very different subjects. In the film everything is connected under some kind of logic, even though it might not seem […]

Interview with Ali Cabbar, director of Bahçeler Put Kesildi [Gardens petrified] Where did the idea for the movie come from?I have been living in Istanbul for many years and I have been dealing with cinema and television works. My family lives in Manisa and looks after our vineyards, which we have cultivated with great care for generations. We lost my father in late […]

Interview with Marthe Sébille, director of Que la Bête monte Where did you get the idea for this rather supernatural adventure?This project has been in development for a very long time. It arose from life experience and my feminist and ecological convictions. A few years ago, I found myself stuck in a train in the middle of the countryside, and I had my […]