Festival

Interview with Faustine Crespy and Laetitia de Montalembert, co-directors of Cataracte [Cataract]  What inspired you for Nicky’s character? Is she based on someone you know?To write Cataracte, we were inspired by two people close to us, both middle-aged and very courageous, who have no computer skills and who for years were subjected to impersonal interviews and intrusive checks at home. These two friends […]

Interview with Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, director of The Headhunter’s Daughter Can you tell us a bit about your inspirations and the story behind The Headhunter’s Daughter? What inspired you the main character?My main inspiration for The Headhunter’s Daughter is the cultural landscape of my hometown of La Trinidad, Benguet and the greater Cordilleran region. Populated by diverse northern tribes (Igorots), the region […]

Interview with Peter Tscherkassky, director of Train Again What has inspired you for Train Again?I found that wonderful footage of trains leaving a tunnel and approaching the camera – another time something highly reminiscent of the Brothers Lumière film Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, which already had inspired my film L’Arrivée in 1997. From here it was a little step […]

Watch the interview with the Taiwanese filmmaker Hsuan Kang Tsai about his short film A Hidden Trail selected in the 2022 International Competition (I9 programme).

Watch the interview with the Russian filmmaker Leonid Shmelkov about his short film Ogurtsy selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L4 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Marion Harlez Citti about her short film Ce n’est rien selected in the 2022 National Competition (F2 programme).

Interview with Samir Karahoda, director of Pa Vend [Displaced] How did you decide on this topic and protagonist to make a film about?I have been familiar with this story since the first years after the war of Kosovo which is sometime in 2004-2005. My close friend who is one of the main characters had returned from Germany and he started playing again as […]

interview with Marine Levéel, director of L’Homme à la Mercedes pourpre How did you come up with the character Annie and what did you want to explore through her story and her relationship with her daughter?I came up with Annie through observing several people I know from generations that precede mine. By hanging out with them, I wanted to talk about the complexity […]

Watch the interview with the German filmmaker Marian Freistühler about his short film Die Geheimnisvollen Inseln selected in the 2022 International Competition.

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Caroline Guiela Nguyen about her short film Les Engloutis selected in the 2022 National and International Competitions (F12 programme).