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  Interview with Marion Desseigne Ravel, director of Fatiya  A film like Fatiya allows the viewer to witness the realities faced by young veiled women who are victims of prejudice. It is a reality that is not often seen in film, even today. Is there a particular audience that you wanted to reach through this film? I would like to reach everyone with this film, […]

  An interview with Thomas Elley, director of Bølger [Open Spaces]  I assume Open Spaces [the English title] refers to the filming location. Can you tell us a bit more about this place and its community? Yes, it does. The fun thing is that the original title of the film is “Bølger” which is Danish for “waves”. And I hated that title in English, so I went on […]

Interview with Mohammad Houhou, director of The Ostrich Politic  How did you work on the rhyme scheme? After creating the concept of the film, I wrote down 2 lines of what the story would be. Then as I began writing the script I felt a narration would serve the story well. Poetry began to flow, I felt that it strengthened the comedic and […]

  Interview with June Balthazard, director of Le baiser du silure [The Kiss of the Catfish]  How do you happen to know about this type of fish, the silurid? Is the actor who plays the main character a fisherman in real life? I learned of the existence of this fish when I was shooting an previous film in the countryside of the Haut-Saôn department where […]

  An interview with Shih Han Tsao, director of A Dream of Spring  Why were you interested in the situation of these old Chinese veterans stuck in Taiwan? I grew up and fulfilled mandatory military service both in Kaohsiung Zuoying. Zuoying is the largest naval base in Taiwan, so there are a lot of veterans who live around there. Because of political and historical […]

  Interview with Martina Scarpelli, director of Egg  Egg is interested in the mechanisms of anorexia, its rituals, in the isolation and obsessions it generates. Do you consider that the success of the film can be accounted for, apart from its technical qualities, by the fact that it deals with a difficult subject, which remains mainly unknown to most people? Probably yes, but mostly the way the […]

  An interview with Veljko Popovic, director of Biciklisti  Can you tell us about cycling season? I’m assuming it’s a real event! The spirit of the local people in my hometown is entangled with sports. It can be football, it can be basketball, water polo or cycling. It does not matter, what matters is the iconic position of the sportsman as the alpha male in the […]

Interview with Louis Hans-Moëvi, director of Intercontinental  Is the film set in a “real” Intercontinental hotel? What gave you the idea to set it there? No, it belongs to a different hotel chain. Even though I have always lived next to the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva, I shot the film at the Mirador Resort & Spa, a prestigious establishment perched in the heights […]

  Interview with Quentin Bailleux, director of Le Mans 1955  Traditionally, we associate animation more with the unreal, with the fantastical. To narrate a historic event in a realistic way is an interesting approach. Did you want to show that the animated short film can be used to treat any subject? Before all else, I see animation as a medium, a technique, and not […]

  An interview with Kanu Behl, director of Binnu Ka Sapna  Can you explain your choice of title? Binnu Ka Sapna literally means “Binnu’s dream”. Binnu is singularly driven by the innermost desire to recreate the “love nest” he saw develop between his parents. He also dreams of understanding and conquering the multilayered world around him, whether it’s his relationship with women or the economic […]