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  Interview with Theja Rio, director of Angh  How would you introduce your film to somebody who hasn’t seen it? Angh is a story from the most rural parts of the North-East of India. The film takes place in 1963 and follows a father and a son who remain the last people to be converted to the new religion, “Christianity”. It is a gritty […]

  Interview with Noëlle Bastin and Baptiste Bogaert, codirectors of Traquer [Hunting Down] How did you share the directing work? For Traquer, as for some of our other films (Salut travail, Veille, On sourira de nous), we drove forward based on the desire for a film that was still yet to be fully defined, with Baptiste working on the image and Noëlle the sound. […]

  Interview with Paul Mas, director of Précieux [Precious] What materials did you use to create the characters? The puppets’ bodies are made of silicone. We make a sculpture, then a mould where we place a frame made of aluminum wire that helps it keep its stance. Then we pour in the silicone which will take the shape of the initial sculpture as it […]

  Interview with Brendan Canty, director of Jam I notice the film was directed by yourself and written by Sam Lazar. How did that collaborative process come about? Did you develop the idea together or where you involved as a director after the script was written? I came on board after the script was written so had no correspondence with Sam. However, he kindly […]

  Interview with Andrew Norman Wilson, director of In the Air Tonight  How much are you interested in the question of urban legends and how did you hear about the legend of In the Air Tonight? I first heard the urban legend about Phil’s inspiration for In the Air Tonight as a teen while getting high in a friend’s basement. According to the ritual […]

  Interview with François Zabaleta, director of Jeunesse perdue [Lost Youth]  This nine-minute documentary is both introspective and retrospective, looking back at a trip you took to San Francisco in your youth. What sparked your desire to put this memory into images, to give it a cinematic destiny? Jeunesse perdue is a small (autobiographical) part of a monologue (mainly a work of fiction) that I wrote for the theater and turned into a feature film, Chien perdu [Lost Dog], this summer. I felt like this very young man’s story, this young kid who dreams of America and films, who crosses the […]

  Interview with Damian Kocur, director of Dalej jest dzien [Beyond is the day] How was Dalej jest dzien born? There have been many film stories about refugees. Television footage showing the refugee drama is well known to us. I was wondering what a situation in which a refugee would look into our eyes, in the literal sense of the word, could look like. […]

  Interview with Samuel Morris, director of Desert Dogs How did you discover this world and what drove you to make a documentary about it? I started skating at a very young age. There were always two realities in my life. On one hand it was my family, on the other hand it was my great passion, skateboarding. These two realities rarely blended, because […]

  Interview with Victor Quintanilha, director of Portugal Pequeno [Little Portugal] To somebody who hasn’t seen Portugal Pequeno, how would you introduce it? Portugal Pequeno is a film, in essence, about the passage to adulthood. A story about a young man who works as a fisherman with his father and dreams of being a famous Brazilian funk singer. Through the routine of this character, […]

  Interview with Mattia Epifani, director of God Dress You Where did the idea of God Dress You come from? I had been reading many articles about the story of a young Orthodox priest, who suffered disciplinary sanctions from his patriarch because he had posted high-fashion clothes and accessories on his Instagram profile. That’s when I decided to write God Dress You: a contemporary […]