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  Interview with Paul Nouhet, director of Les méduses de Gouville [The Jellyfish of Gouville] Tell us a little bit about how Les méduses de Gouville came to be. At the very beginning, I met with Tristan Vaslot, the film’s producer. We’d met in our first year of film school at La Fémis and we immediately got along. Tristan brought me for a weekend out […]

  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 […]

  Interview with Ivana Bosnjak and Thomas Johnson, co-directors of Udahnut zivot [Imbued Life] What inspired you to tell this story? What is your interest in taxidermy? We were inspired to create this film after having a taxidermy animal sitting on our shelf in our apartment in Zagreb. The pine marten was preserved in a moment; a still life staring down at us, as […]

  Interview with Hugo Pepper Guevara, director of Darikiken What did you want to explore with this child’s journey through the forest? Who or what inspired you to tell his story? My idea about a child in the jungle was to show the great connection and coexistence between the natives and the Amazon, a balance that is a delicate and thin line which is […]

  Interview with Hamza Bangash, director of Stray Dogs Come Out at Night Can you explain the title? What is the symbol or role of the dog, here? In the late of night, the streets of Karachi are run by stray dogs. They come out from their corners, sit in the middle of the road, are happy and carefree. We do not have a […]

  Interview with Vincent Pouplard, director of Ce n’est qu’après [Only After] When you started making the film, did you specifically want to work with young adults, or was the age of the witnesses simply a consequence of the topic that interested you or of your approach in handling the topic? I wanted to work with young adults, with young people who had difficulties […]

  Interview with Felix Herrmann, director of Die Tinte Trocknet Nicht (The Ink doesn’t Dry) Can you tell us more about the title and the proverb at the beginning of the film? The proverb at the beginning “the pens have been lifted, the ink has dried” refers to the idea of fate, that the story of each one of us is already written. The […]

  Interview with Patricia Ramos Hernández, director of I Love Lotus Can you explain the title? Is this a reference to an actual brand of condoms? Previously I had another title, but it was a true condom brand and I didn’t want to have rights issues. That’s why I decided to invent a brand name that doesn’t exist. The story unfolding in a condom […]

  Interview with Max Walker-Silverman, director of Lefty/Righty Can you tell us a bit about the title? Lefty is a mythic cowboy name. It’s a nod towards the western genre that the film flirts with (sort of). And Righty, well, it’s pretty similar but completely opposite. Balance and opposition. Sounds like a movie to me! Is the story in any way biographical, or autobiographical? […]