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  Interview with Zachary Woods, director of David Is David based on anyone you know? Nope. My co-writer Brandon Gardner and I talked about lots of people we care about when we were writing. But there wasn’t one person in particular. What gave you the idea of setting the story at a therapist’s? My dad is a therapist and would sometimes get calls from […]

  Interview with Margaux Elouagari, director of Princesses Can you explain the title? What I like most about the title is its paradoxical side. In their minds, Lindsay and Leslie are definitely princesses or they want to become them, but in reality they’re not princesses for anyone else, not their family nor the boys they hang out with, whether friends or potential boyfriends. No […]

  Interview with Joanna Quinn and Les Mills, director and writer of Affairs of the Art Beryl has featured in a number of your films. Can you tell us a bit more about her? Who was the inspiration for her character? How has Beryl’s character evolved since we first met her? Beryl started life as a very one-dimensional character in a comic strip that […]

  Interview with Viktor Brim, director of Dark Matter How did you choose the title Dark Matter? I wanted to create a narrative in the title that addresses the human influences on the landscape. Landscape in this context refers to a resource that is constantly being changed, reshaped, and degraded, especially in Siberia. I was interested in the phenomenon of changing and reshaping landscape […]

  Interview with Pablo Giles, director of Bisho What gave you the idea of exploring the relationship between Susana and Emilio through the prism of the barking dog? I have a very special connection with dogs, I’ve always been surrounded by them and love being with them. It was instantly attractive. Ever since I first came up with the idea of the movie, I […]

  Interview with Ibrahim Handal, director of Bethlehem 2001 Why did you choose to revisit this – I presume traumatic – event as a short film? Actually, I am still trying to understand what I have done and why. However, I have held in these memories and feelings throughout these years with the purpose of sharing them in a short film. Other filmmakers might […]

  Interview with Joanne Rakotoarisoa, director of Nous ne sommes pas encore morts [We Are Not Dead Yet] Why were you interested in depicting a group of young post-teens just getting ready to embark on their adult lives? I met the group of kids who are the basis for the film when I was still a student. I was travelling to Ukraine, a country […]

  Interview with Ariq Khan, director of Transit  What motivated you to tell this story? Do many people find themselves in this “transit” situation in Bangladesh? I have always wanted my films to be about the common man, the type of characters whose stories are not as often seen in modern cinema. Blended with that is migration, which I feel is a very important […]

  Interview with Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, director of  Maalbeek  Did you meet Sabine by chance, or did you look for her subsequent to the media coverage of her amnesia?  I met Sabine through the Life4Brussels association because I was looking to meet people who had been affected in one way or the other by the bombing. On the morning of March 22, I was supposed to take the subway […]

  Interview with Alexis Hellot, director of Perles What inspired you to make Perles, and why did you choose to make it a thriller? In the beginning, there was an image of an abandoned car under a tree in a sort of clearing. There is a woman inside. A man comes to see her. Everything started from that. The issue of the Roma slums […]