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  Interview with Gar O’Rourke, director of Kachalka How did you go about creating Kachalka?  Can you talk us through the filming processes a little? I live in Ireland as does the producer of the film and as such this film was made in a kind of ‘remote’ way. The film was made over three separate visits to Kiev over a one-and-a-half-year period. The first two […]

  Interview with Paul Heintz, director of Shānzhài Screens How did you come up with the idea for Shānzhài Screens? And how did you find the artist painters? In 2015 I made the film Non contractuel which deals with job transfers, unemployment and with simulation used as a way to get back to work. I was already interested in representations of work situations and […]

  Interview with Victor Boyer, director of La place du mort [The Dead Man’s Place] What did you want to explore in the relation between the two brothers? Initially, I was more interested in Samuel’s trauma rather than the relation between the two brothers: the death of one twin and the survivor’s arbitrary choice of identity. That past history made him a character with […]

  Interview with Riad Bouchoucha, director of La veillée [The Wake] What interests you about mourning, why did you want to the action to take place at a wake? My desire to situate the action at a wake comes from a personal experience. Like the protagonist, I lost my mother and I was surprised by the attitudes of some of the close family and […]

  Interview with Erenik Beqiri, director of The Van Why were you interested in illegal immigration? Illegal immigration has become part of the Albanian culture these last 30 years. After the communist regime fell in the 90s, most Albanians immigrated to Italy, Greece, England and other countries. At first you’d think this happened only back then, but we still have people trying to illegally […]

  Interview with Valérie Leroy, director of Teen Horses What interested you about the period of adolescence? I’m very interested in questions of identity: How do we become who we are? How can society influence our development? To what degree are we free? And in that regard, adolescence is truly a watershed period. And also to what degree we’re able to construct ourselves despite […]

  Interview with Quinn Else, director of Fort Irwin How did you come across Fort Irwin? What motivated you to make it the focus of a short film? Three years ago I met an American professor who told me he made money in the mid-2000s by pretending to be an Iraqi villager for United States military training. I was surprised by his bizarre story […]

  Interview with Sébastien Auger, director of Plot [Cone] What interested you in the music world and in the relationship to the musical? Music is a daily passion that nourishes a good part of my imagination. For example, I always listen to music while writing and often a piece helps me find the right tone or the right color for a sequence.  So, from […]

  Interview with Jamille van Wijngaarden, director of Tienminutengesprek [School’s Out] What did you want to express or explore through this teacher’s rant? I wanted to show how this woman who’s been battered over years, enduring all sorts of scrutiny from her students’ parents, finally reaches her boiling point and unleashes all her fury. And I wanted to do this in a way that we […]

  Interview with Ross McClean, director of Hydebank How did you come across Ryan and what made you want to tell his story? My first experience inside Hydebank was Christmas a few years ago to play a football match (we were defeated 22 – 3 by the prisoners). My interest was piqued by a small flock of sheep grazing alongside the pitch; all framed […]