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  Interview with Noël Fuzellier, director of Mars Colony Where did you get the inspiration for Logan’s character? During a training course that I gave a few years ago, I met a very distracted, very noisy teenager, who was sometimes funny and often aggressive. He wouldn’t listen to anyone and seemed only to be there to disrupt the class. He had an incredible violence […]

  Interview with William Laboury, director of Yandere Why did you want to use an artificial human companion rather than an ex-girlfriend who controls Siri, Cortana or Alexa from afar? I’ve been interested in the idea of artificial human companions ever since I saw an ad for this type of holographic girlfriend in Japan. You immediately wonder what she thinks about while she’s waiting […]

  Interview with Marion Lacourt, director of Moutons, loup et tasse de thé [Sheep, Wolf and a Cup of Tea] The film is dedicated to your grandmother. Can you tell us more about the connection? The origin of the project is the image of my grandmother with bags of camomille tea on her eyes. That was one of the first pre-bedtime rituals I witnessed […]

  Interview with Cris Lyra, director of Quebramar Could you tell us a bit more about the title? A “quebramar” or breakwater is a wall of rock built to resist the strength of waves or currents that seek to wash over a piece of land. In our conversations about being a lesbian body in the patriarchy and about not performing standard femininity, we identify […]

  Interview with Noé Debré, director of Une fille moderne [A Progressive Girl] What was your inspiration for Une fille moderne? The film’s inspiration was a story by Raphaël Hayoun, a friend, who like the main character, is studying in a Yeshiva school in Israel. Raphaël recounts his experience of arranged dates, shiddouh, which are supposed to allow young people from the Jewish religious […]

  Interview with Claire van Beek, director of Daniel What did you seek to explore through Joan’s experience? I explore the power of desire; the importance of touch, and the complexity of female sexuality. I wanted to get inside the psyche of a young woman confronted with the force of sexual desire. Joan suddenly finds that her solace and routine is ripped apart and replaced with […]

  Interview with Matthieu Vigneau, director of Fin de saison Why were you interested in the camping environment? The world of camping world didn’t really interest me. I was looking to create a restricted yet accessible place, a confined space. A campground enables the main character to work and live in the same place. A small area where people live close to each other […]

  Interview with Chintis Lundgren, director of Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves What inspired you to tell the story of the wolf Toomas, a former engineer who has become a gigolo? My previous film, Manivald, was very slow-paced and quiet. I wanted to do something wilder and crazier for my next project, something in the vein of Russ Meyer’s sexploitation movies. Also, […]

  Interview with David Pérez Sañudo, director of Un coche cualquiera What inspired you to tell this story? We reflected about the concept of our story a few years ago: a guy who cannot get into his car. We considered that we had a lot of possibilities from this premise. On the other hand, we have always considered that Un coche cualquiera as an exercise about film empathy. […]

  Interview with Randa Maroufi, director of Bab Sebta The film is dedicated to your father. Could you tell us a bit more about what he did? My father was a customs inspector until the end of the 90s. He worked mainly in the Laâyoune, Casablanca and Marrakech airports. Many members on my mother’s side of the family are from the north and work […]