Festival

Watch the interview with the American filmmaker Katherine Propper about her short film Birds selected in the 2022 International Competition (I10 programme).

Interview with Victor Boulenger, director of Sourdingue (Deaf as a Post) What led you to make Sourdingue?Different ingredients:– Acquiring a hearing aid was an important purchase that I’ve had to make for a while now, in fact being hard of hearing is part of who I am.– Imagine that in addition to the strange typo in my name, my father was actually an […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Amélie Bonnin about her short film Partir un jour selected in the 2022 National Competition (F11 programme).

Interview with Gina Kippenbroeck, director of Ensom Cowgirl [Lonely Cowgirl] How was Ensom cowgirl born?It started with a feeling and a mood, more than an actual plot or idea for a character. During a long and dark Copenhagen winter, I moved into a new apartment which had a quite dystopian view from the living room window. I did most of my developing and […]

Watch the interview with the Russian-German filmmaker Alexandra Brodski about her short film Joy selected in the 2022 International Competition (I3 programme).

Watch the interview with the English filmmaker Varun Raman about his short film Man or Tree selected in the 2022 Lab Competition.

Interview with Carlos Segundo, director of Sideral Have you ever dreamt of flying or going into space?I’ve personally never wanted to go to space. Perhaps I’m a bit curious. What attracts me to space is its immensity and infiniteness. In Sidéral, space appears as the real possibility of a spatio-temporal suspension. But of course, it also affects our imagination. Was the theme of […]

Interview with George-Alex Nagle, director of Mate What did you seek to explore through the relationship between John and Jack?For my co-writer Daniel Corboy and myself, the starting point of this film was questioning “what would my thirteen-year-old self-think of my thirty-year-old self?” Although both characters and their relationship to one another did evolve greatly throughout the writing process, and although we were […]

Interview with Vincent Le Port, director of La Marche de Paris à Brest [Walking from Paris to Brest] What led you to give this film an “old-fashioned” effect, bringing it closer to your inspiration Walking from Munich to Berlin by Oskar Fischinger, with this series of short shots interspersed with white cuts?Before filming, I ran lots of tests in both analog and digital, […]

Interview with Lila Pinell, director of Le roi David What gave you the urge to tell Shana’s story? Are some of the characters drawn from examples or experiences you have had in real life?I’ve wanted to tell Shana’s story since meeting the actress who plays her, Eva Huaut. I’ve known her since childhood and I’d lost touch with her for 7 years. When […]