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  Interview with Manuela Irene Espitia, director of Sol del Llano What inspired you to tell the story of this mother and her two children? As I became a mother I also struggled with grief for the loss of my cousin. It was a big challenge emotionally and I felt the need to make another film. I wanted to shoot in my grandparents’ house […]

  Interview with Johanna Pyykkö, director of The Manila Lover Firstly, why did you choose to set the story in Manila? I met a woman from the Philippines in Sweden. She was traveling and told me about how Nordic, white men tried to define and predict who she was based on their preconceptions. These white men were never able to see her real personality […]

  Interview with Qiu Yang, director of She Runs Can you tell us a few words about Yu, the main character of She Runs? Of course. Yu’s a young Chinese teenager girl who’s in her junior high. She’s part of the school’s aerobic dancing team but has been trying to get away from it. What was the appeal in the subject matter? It’s inspired by a […]

  An interview with Idil Ibrahim, director of Sega  Is Sega based on someone in particular? How common is his situation in Senegal? The story of Sega is not based on the story of someone in particular, however, it was inspired by a number of people I’d come in contact with or read about. The situation is fairly common in Senegal. We filmed on […]

  An interview with Fadi Baki, director of Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow  We get a sense that Manivelle symbolises or embodies aspects of Lebanon’s history since its independence. Would that be right to say? What were your intentions with the robot? To some extent, yes: Le Nouvel Homme is the loaded gift that France bestows upon its colony that so this […]

  An interview with Lobo Mauro, director of Mais Triste que Chuva num Recreio de Colégio  Can you explain your choice of title? Is it a Brazilian saying? It’s not a Brazilian saying. There’s a sentence in a book called Os Cus de Judas (“The Land at the End of the World”), by António Lobo Antunes, a Portuguese writer, which says “triste como a chuva […]

  An interview with Jonathan Hodgson, director of Roughhouse  Are there any elements of this story that are autobiographical? Are the friends based on people you know? The story is inspired by an episode from my late teens when I was living in a student flat in Liverpool. Some of the characters are based on people I knew at the time, although I have […]

  An interview with Joseph Amenta, director of Haus  Can you explain the title Haus? The title Haus has many meanings as it pertains to the subject of the film. The direct link to “Haus” is the word “house” which is something our lead, Makai, has recently lost due to the conflicts he has had with his mother’s discovery of him being a queer man. […]

  Interview with Patrick Bouchard, director of Le sujet [The Subject]  What interested you in the relationship to the body? On the one hand, the relationship to the body is a concrete one, and in this case, quite intimate. It directly calls to our senses and informs us of our state of being. On the other hand, questions of being and of the invisible […]

  An interview with Vladimir Leschiov, director of Elektrika Diena  Why did you choose a power cut to kick off the series of events? It is how I feel about the times we are currently living in. There is nervousness, instability, and fragility of relationships between people in the modern world. Light is one of the main conditions for human beings to be safe […]