Festival

Watch the interview with the American filmmaker Kevin Steen about his short film Daron, Daron Colbert selected in the 2023 International Competition (I12 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Xavier Debeir Lacaille about his short film Un dernier été selected in the 2023 National Competition (F4 programme).

Interview with Laen Sanches, director of PLSTC  Could you explain what the acronym PLSTC represents?  PLSTC is an invented acronym that simply means “plastic.” This word has several advantages: it is succinct, legible, and phonetically understandable in most languages. Also, with its “visually missing” letters, it also perhaps illustrates the idea that plastic does not totally disintegrate but rather, remains, in spite of everything, […]

Interview with Léo Blandino, director of Bitume [Asphalt] How did you happen to think of making a film about truck drivers?I wrote the script with Thimothée Meyrieux-Drevet who shared his research on drivers and the evolution of their working conditions. I was immediately interested by the topic. So then we had to figure out how to talk about it and come up with a […]

Interview with Julie Ecoffey, director of But What Does It Mean? Where did you come up with the idea for these two characters? My crew. I often find the banal conversations of those around me absurd and very funny, so I wanted to represent characters who were realistic in the way they spoke.   Why do they speak in English? Why the “twist”?  I used English […]

Interview with Cécile Mille, director of Cui cui cui  Why did you choose this subject? The desire to have children is a subject that I had to deal with for quite a few years. Later on, I saw others going through the same ordeal and I bore the guilt of those who succeeded. The birth of Cui cui cui comes from the desire to […]

Interview with Eli Jean Tahchi, director of Des voisins dans ma cour  What can you say about the wall that separates Mont-Royal, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Montreal, from Parc-Extensions, a neighborhood where immigrants and some of the city’s poorest people live? Since 1960, a fence made of chain links and steel rods, lining the Boulevard de l’Acadie—two meters high, 1.6 kilometers long, […]

Watch the interview with the Italian filmmaker Adriano Valerio about his short film Calcutta 8:40am selected in the 2023 National Competition (F2 programme).

Watch the interview with the Vietnamian filmmaker Vũ Nguyễn Nam Khuê about his short film A Lost Astronaut And a City of Footprints selected in the 2023 International Competition (I12 programme).

Watch the interview with the Algerian filmmaker Amira Louadah about her short film L’Arche selected in the 2023 Lab Competition (L2 programme).