Interview with Olivier Smolders, director of Masques [Masks] How much were you interested by the issue of filiation and transmission for this film?My cinematic desires are intuitive, sensorial, linked to people and objects that I want to film. It is only whilst the work is in progress that I discover along the way roughly « what it is about ». I have been wanting to […]
Interview with Elizabeth Rocha Salgado, director of São Paulo Open Wound How did you meet the Mamba Negra collective? I have been in one of their parties in Rio de Janeiro. It was amazing. It is a party with many performances from different artists. Why did you choose to make a documentary about this underground scene in Brazil?My producer met them in Amsterdam, where […]
Interview with Sarah Saidan, director of À cœur perdu [Home of the Heart] How did you get the inspiration for À coeur perdu?We say “Home is where the Heart is”, but what if one doesn’t know where exactly their heart is? The topic of this film is very personal to me. I have lived as an immigrant in France for over a decade now […]
Interview with Ian de la Rosa, director of Farrucas What interested you in the life of the Moroccan-Spanish community in Spain?It is something I have always been close to, because of where I grew up, in the south of Spain, one of the gateways for the migrant community, especially from North Africa. I was also very interested in the Andalusian past, and I […]