Interview with Tomasz Siwinski, director of Niebieski Pokój How did you get into directing Niebieski Pokój? Is there a part of documentary in the text or is it only fiction? A few years ago I met Ron Dyens from Sacrebleu Productions at the Animation Film Festival in Zagreb. He liked my previous graduation film, and he was willing to do something new with […]
An interview with Guillaume Rieu, director of Tarim le Brave contre les Mille et Un Effets [Tarim the Brave Versus the Thousand and One Effects] Tarim le Brave contre les Mille et Un Effets is a comedy made up of satirical sketches that deal with the filmmaking process. Why did you choose to use the Thousand and One Nights genre of oriental adventure […]
An interview with Christopher Radcliff, director of Jonathan’s Chest How did you get into directing Jonathan’s Chest? The idea for Jonathan’s Chest came from some research I had been doing on true stories of missing children, and a sort of wave of paranoia and fear that swept the United States during the 1980s and beyond in which people became very scared that their […]
The leg is over! The correct answer was: Aïssa by Clément Tréhin-Lalanne (F1 programme). Answer it and you can win two invitations for the Festival screenings ! Here is track #9 from Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival to win the game “For whom the short tolls ?” You must find the exact title of this film, the complete director’s name, AND the programm in […]
An interview with Calvin Antoine Blandin, director of La chair de ma chère (Mimma) In Mimma, your characters speak a language that I didn’t understand. Is it an existing language, or did you intentionally create distance by preventing us from understanding their speech? In Mimma, the characters speak an imaginary language. The goal was to support the universality of their words, and also […]
An interview with Anaïs Ruales Borja, director of Burundanga Burundanga begins with a sequence in an amusement park and your main character is a ride operator. What attracted you to this particular universe? I believe it all began from there, from that image that struck me as I walked through a makeshift amusement park in the middle of puddles of water. There […]
The leg is over! The correct answer was: Journée d’appel by Basile Douganis (F6 programme). Answer it and you can win two invitations for the Festival screenings ! Here is track #10 from Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival to win the game “For whom the short tolls ?” You must find the exact title of this film, the complete director’s name, AND the programm […]
A SINGLE LIFE Job ROGGEVEEN, Joris OPRINS, Marieke BLAAUW Pays-bas / 2014 / 00:02:15 In the category of “very short” films selected this year, A Single Life provides an example of narrative effectiveness. In only 2’15”, this burlesque animation from the Dutch trio Job, Joris and Marieke brings us face to face with a young woman whose life is turned upside down the […]









