Festival

Interview with Ting Chi-Wen , director of The Textual Way of Contemporary Dialogue How did you get the inspiration for The Textual Way of Contemporary Dialogue?Last year I read a book, The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. At the same time, I was also studying the image theory of Gilles Deleuze. I found that most of the dialogue in fictions is still traditionally […]

Interview with Hekuran Isufi, director of I Kemi Varros Baballarët I Kemi Varros Baballarët deals with Dardan’s return  from France to Kosovo to visit his father’s grave. What were you interested in exploring with a film that talks about exile and mourning?  The film talks about a country that’s still marked by its past, by war – by the past that still weighs down […]

Interview with Bilal Alkhatib, director of Palestine 87  The film is based on a true story. How did you hear about it? Why did you decide to tell it as a short film? This film tells a story from the 1987 Intifada; it is believed to be a true story. I heard about it from a taxi driver, although I embellish it for cinematic […]

Interview with Julius Gintaras Blum, director of Chemkids  What is your particular relationship with Chemnitz? I was born in Dresden, a city right next to Chemnitz. When I was passing through Chemnitz by train in my early 20s, I realised that I had never been to the city before, even though it was so close to my hometown. Then I fell in love with […]

Interview with Fabián León López, director of Pitbull  Firstly, can you explain the title?In recent years, the pitbull dog race has been used by their owners to show strength. It has become a mask to a very simplistic manhood which is now falling to pieces. Can you tell us about what you wanted to explore through this relationship? Between man and woman, and […]

Interview with Antoine Giorgini, director of Bonne soirée [Good Evening] How did you come up with the idea for this short film? This initial situation (a migrant taking shelter in a basement) happened to people I know who live on the coast. From there, I decided to transform this situation and turn it into a prank.  Did you want to explore issues related to the […]

Interview with Enrique Buleo, director of Las Visitantes What made you want these ladies’ story?  Were they inspired from people in your life? In my village, most of the retired people that usually go to guided tours are women and many of them are widows. Widows are very common here (and maybe everywhere) and I’ve always thought that they really begin to live when […]

Interview with Darcy Prendergast, director of Strange Beasts What’s your relation to Prenda? I suppose that was the starting point for wanting to tell this story?   Prenda is my animal-obsessed father, who at 17 years old worked as a big cat keeper at the Bacchus Marsh Lion and Tiger Safari – a popular tourist destination in an incredibly small Australian town. I’d long tried to find the right format for this […]

Interview with Ophelia Harutyunyan, director of Il faut tout un village… Why are there no men? What’s the social and economic context in which this story is unfolding?There are many villages in Armenia that have almost no adult men, only women, children and elders. This is a result of men going to Russia to find work, like construction or other blue collar jobs. […]

Interview with Maïté Sonnet, director of Des jeunes filles enterrent leur vie [Bachelorette Party] After Massacre, you’ve made Des jeunes filles enterrent leur vie which is more of a comedy. What was the starting point for this film?Actually, and bizarrely, I never thought I’d write a comedy more than anything else. Humor almost comes by itself, without my intending it, or else it comes through […]