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  Interview with Paul Bush, director of Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic At first, did you get the inspiration from the sight of materials, maybe accumulated, or from the line of thought? Since Furniture Poetry in 1999 I have been making replacement animation using multiple, similar-shaped, found objects. I wanted to animate plastic junk for a long time. Ten years ago I proposed it to a Chinese […]

  Interview with Maximilian Badier-Rosenthal, director of Malabar  How did Malabar come about? The idea came to me when I met Marcel Jacq, the actor in my previous short film Ông Ngoai. He had never acted before. It was pure chance when I passed in front of a cafe on my way to work. At the time, he agreed to play the role of […]

  Interview with Siiri Halko, director of Haikara How would you introduce the film to somebody who hasn’t seen it? Haikara is an absurd yet realistic film about the troubles of trying to find the right way of saying goodbye.  What did you wish to explore through the relationship between Veikka and his father Veikka and Kari have a kind of relationship in which […]

  Interview with Léo Bittencourt, director of Vagalumes [Fireflies] How did you get into the idea of shooting a public park by night? When we started the research about the construction of the park we decided to change the focus of the film. Parque do Flamengo, or simply Aterro do Flamengo, was one of the major public works to renovate the city center of […]

  Interview with Benoit Blanc and Matthias Girbig, directors of Choulequec  How did you come up with the idea for Choulequec? The film is the result of a project for a show that we’ve had in the works for several years now. As with any show, developing it takes time, and finding the right financial partner in France with a mixed genre like this […]

  Interview with Jannis Alexander Kiefer, director of Kollegen [Good German Work] What did you want to explore in the relationship between the woodworkers and the film crew? The woodworkers are representative of the locals living in the village where our film takes place. A young woman and an older man who have lived in their region since they were born and who are […]

  Interview with Phạm Ngọc Lân, director of The Unseen River How did you get into the idea of dealing with love affairs and feelings? Every August in the city I live in, bank swallows would appear in abundance. In the evenings, they would glide above the river surface while their chirping fill the air. Since ancient times, there have been beliefs about these […]

  Interview with Caroline Cherrier, director of Horacio How did you come up with the idea for Horacio? My uncle worked with inmates, and he told me about a conversation he had with a convict, who summed up his act with these simple words: “She was yelling, she was yelling, and after… she wasn’t yelling any more”. That made an impression on me because it’s […]

  Interview with Mei Liu, director of Happy Ending Where did the idea of Happy Ending come from? There are moments in life that pierce through your routine interactions with people, that would make you realize your rehearsed set of words no longer fit, and that your curated version of self no longer feels truthful. These moments feel like little tunnels that allow us […]

  Interview with Paz Corona, director of Santiago 1973-2019 Why did you want to bear witness to the 2019 protests in Chile? About ten years ago a friend sent me an article about an unprecedented natural phenomenon that took place in the Atacama desert: the most arid desert in the world had bloomed. The cause of this improbable flowering was related to a natural […]