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  An interview with Hong-Kai Liang, director of Soleil d’Hiver [Winter Sun]  What interested you in mixing the present with memories? It’s an impression that I got when confronting the aging of my parents. In my view, people don’t grow old step by step. And often, suddenly, we feel that the other has gotten old and it’s irreversible. Whereas before that instant, we were […]

  An interview with Laura Herrero Garvin, director of ¿Me vas a gritar?  Why were you interested in picturing female wrestlers? Majo Siscar, the co-writer, and I were so interested in talking about the social pressure on women. We are both from Spain and we had been living in Mexico for around 8 years. There we had experienced several machismo situations but also women’s […]

  Interview with Jonas Schoelsing, director of Riviera  Why did you want to depict an elderly person and his activities? My intention of showing an old man’s routine is tied to my own questions about how I viewed my grandparents, and by extension elderly people in general. What do we really know, what do we know about their past, their history and what endures […]

  An interview with Lewis Attey, director of Three Stories Inside a Rental Van  What inspired you to tell the stories of these characters? The idea first came to mind after watching dash cam videos on YouTube. There is something interesting about the way the camera keeps rolling after an accident, or after the person driving has left the vehicle. There is this sense […]

  An interview with Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan, co-directors of Stratum  Stratum  depicts social history. When was it taking place? Jacob: The film combines present-day footage of derelict or repurposed coal mines with archive film from the 1920s, 1930s, 1970s and 1980s. These were periods of change and conflict, of strike action, repression and rupture in the social fabric. A key archive source we […]

  Interview with Gabriel Harel, director of La nuit des sacs plastiques [The Night of the Plastic Bags]  How did you come up with the idea of bringing plastic bags to life? At that time, I really wanted to make an animated fantasy film, a bit of a horror story with a monster, I was looking for that monster. The idea came to me after […]

  An interview with Inés Gowland, director of Destete  What does the title refer to here? Destete, or weaning in English, is the process of introducing an infant mammal to what will be its adult diet and withdrawing the supply of its mother’s milk. In humans, that is a gradual process, but with cattle it’s a harsh separation. One day cow and calf get […]

  Interview with Sebastian Kåss, director of The Animal  Was it difficult for you to find the actress who plays Siri the determined, angry young lady? I think casting is one of the most important parts of filmmaking and I always take my time trying a lot of actors and constellations between different actors to see how it affects the film as a whole. With this film […]

  Interview de Stefan Kruse, réalisateur de The Migrating Image  How long did you search for informations and images? How easy was it to find them? Which were the most complicated to collect? I spend around three month gathering all the material for the film. In the beginning I scoured the internet for all kinds of material relating to migration in Europe. This resulted […]

  Interview with Camille Polet, director of Moi votre ami [What, I, Your Friend?]  How did you come up with the idea of this middle-aged man wanting to become an actor? Above all, it’s because that middle-aged man is my father! And what I was interested in filming was a real event that had already happened, to rewrite it and to stage it as […]