Festival

Watch the interview with the Belgian filmmaker Olivier Smolders about his short film Masques selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L1 programme).

Watch the interview with the Dutch filmmaker Eliane Esther Bots about her short film In Flow of Words selected in the 2022 International Competition.

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Victor Trifilieff about his short film Les Curiosités du mal selected in the 2022 National Competition.

Watch the interview with the Australian filmmaker George-Alex Nagle about his short film Mate selected in the 2022 International Competition (I10 programme).

Interview with Victoria Negreiros Guedes and Júlia Dordetti Fávero, directors of Como respirar fora d’água [How to breathe out of water] Your film deals with police brutality and with affirming one’s identity in front of our family, our community. What draws you to explore these topics?By facing the urge to conceive a short film as a project, we were all eager to shoot […]

Interview with Marion Harlez Citti, director of Ce n’est rien [Shush Tony] In Ce n’est rien, to what extent did you want to address the issue of breakups? Do you plan on making any more films on this topic?I wanted to talk about the influence a relationship has and how difficult it is to break up when in this kind of relationship. Separation […]

Interview with Francesco Romano, director of Ambasciatori Ambasciatori evokes the violence of a hidden community, in which older men try to buy sex from two young albanian men. How did you decide on this topic and protagonists to make a film about?For my works I always tend to start and be inspired by the reality that I live or observe.  I learned of […]

Watch the interview with the Mexican filmmaker Gabriel González Acosta about his short film Concertina selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L5 programme).

Interview with Marie Larrivé, director of Noir-Soleil Had you visited Vesuvius before? Why did you choose that location for Noir-Soleil?Yes, I’d gone with my parents when I was a child and I went back there to scout while I was writing the script in order to create a coherent space. I like the idea of an ancestral danger that hovers over everything, a disturbing […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Nicolas Panay about his short film Le Point de reprise selected in the 2022 National Competition (F3 programme).