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Interview with Frédéric Bas and Caroline Brami, co-directors of L’Inspection Where did you get the idea for the interview between the school inspector and the teacher?We were looking for a situation that’s rarely seen in films about schools and that was likely to raise as many questions as possible about our profession. We thought the discussion between the inspector and the history teacher […]

Interview with Katherine Propper, director of Birds How was Birds born?I wanted to make this film, in part, to explore my creative process. My last short film involved a local community of young people whom I spent time with and worked with to make a film about their world. Birds expands on that approach more deeply. This film is more improvised, more off-the-cuff […]

Interview with Bill Morrison, director of Her Violet Kiss From which material did you build up Her Violet Kiss?Her Violet Kiss sources material from a lost German film, Liebeshölle (1928), directed by Wiktor Biegnaski and Carmine Gallone, and which was released in the USA as Pawns of Passion in 1929. I was working with the only known surviving copy of the film, which […]

Interview with Lauriane Lagarde, director of Un corps brûlant [A Free Run] What interested you about the subject of romantic encounters and are you planning on making other films on the same theme?I was extremely desirous of making a physical film where bodies would be put to the test. This encounter has nothing natural about it. More than the personalities of these two […]

Interview with Morad Mostafa, director of Khadiga Is Khadiga based on someone you know? What motivated you to tell her story? Khadiga is a character we all know, and she exists in all societies in different forms and ways. What prompted me to tell this story is that it is a story that I’d like to tell because it affects me very much and […]

Interview with Roberto Jiménez Bozada, director of Cinco Estrellas [Five Stars] Where did the idea of Cinco estrellas come from?The idea comes from a news story I read. An advertisement for tourist trips appeared in an English newspaper to see the most depressed areas of Greece. I simply exchanged Greece for Spain, two countries with great social inequalities. The film is shot in […]

Interview with Jean-Baptiste Durand, director of Vrai gars [Big Boy] Could you explain your choice for the title?For me the title has a double meaning and may be interpreted in two ways. In the beginning, Sami is a “real guy”, in the hypermasculine, macho, a bit of a street-smart rogue sense of the word. Whereas, on the contrary, at the end he is […]

Interview with Arthur Jaquier, director of Avec Calvin [With Calvin] What was the basis for the character Calvin?The character Calvin is largely based on Calvin himself, hence the title. It’s a portrait that’s been staged. The film feels very spontaneous. Was the making of it genuinely spontaneous or was it actually the product of numerous drafts and lengthy rehearsals with the actors?There were […]

Interview with Jumana Issa and Flavio Luca Marano, directors of Es Muss [It Must] How was Es Muss born?On a roadtrip with plenty of time thinking about our mothers. Can you tell us a bit about Silvia’s character, and the way she decides to face adversity?She’s a person who never really stands up for herself, but at this day everything she has left […]

Interview with Marin Gérard, director of À l’ombre l’après-midi What were the circumstances of you writing the script for À l’ombre l’après-midi?I wrote most of the script at the end of 2020, during the second lockdown. It had been rattling around in my head for a while and I didn’t write it as a reaction to movie theaters being shut down, but writing […]