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  An interview with Luis Cifuentes, director of En Busca de un Tierno Silencio  Do you have a personal experience of the Pinochet period in Chile and its consequences? Yes. My family has been persecuted since the 11 September 1973 strike. I was born in 1977, into a family kicked by dictatorship. My father was part of a theatre company called ALEPH, some of […]

  An interview with Laura Carreira, director of Red Hill  Can you tell us a bit more about Red Hill (as a place)? The title ‘Red Hill’ comes from the location Jim patrols as a night security guard. Part of the film takes place in a slag heap of a former mine, now used as a site to extract aggregate of what is left […]

  Interview with Benoît Rambourg, director of Nus dans les rues la nuit [Naked At Night In the Streets]  Why did you choose to film in black and white? It was instinctive. I’ve always viewed the film that way. From the beginning. It’s a choice that requires you to produce an explanation for the financing commissions. This is what I came up with: “I want […]

  An interview with Hristo Simeonov, director of Gorata na Dimo [Dimo’s Forest]  Why did you want to make a film in the forest environment? I grew up in a small village in a region just like the one in the film. And 3 years ago, I found out that the forest in my village was destroyed by a private concessionaire.  This man remained unpunished […]

  An interview with Erica Scoggins, director of The Boogeywoman  Why were you interested in picturing a teenage girl at her first period? It’s a time of incredible tension. There can be fear, dread, and shame, but also pride and growth. Often, it’s all mixed up together. It’s an undeniable physical change heaped in centuries of mythology and propaganda. A girl becomes a woman, […]

  An interview with Sonja Rohleder, director of Quiet  How did you choose the music? And how did you work on Quiet’s rhythm? I have wanted to make an abstract film with music for a long time and was looking for a piece both simple and strong. Years ago, I already used a Nils Frahm piece of music on my graduation film and  luckily, he […]

  An interview with Matthieu Migneau, director of La route du sel  Can you tell us about the origins of La route du sel? I grew up in the country along the Loire river and I still live there. It’s a rather magical landscape, sometimes like an African river, sometimes a muddy bayou. As in many rural areas in France, poverty as well as […]

  Interview with Frédéric Doazan, director of Hurlevent  In Hurlevent, the signs, numbers and letters of a book, carried away by the wind, assemble themselves to take the shapes of various figures. Is this a way to evoke the power of language or of poetry? I saw it more as if language had come to life. A breath that animates and causes a chain […]

  An interview with Sergey Borovkov, director of Lionella  How did you come up with this name? Do you know anyone called Lionella? We found this name from the YouTube blog of a local Imam. He was telling a story about the muslim name ceremony tradition in which his friend has asked him to name his newborn granddaughter Lionella. This name, for the Islamic part of […]

  An interview with Thomas Noakes, director of Nursery Rhymes  Why were you interested in heightening tension further and further? Myself and the writer Will Goodfellow were more interested in subverting the audience’s expectations than heightening the tension. It was about creating a landscape of withheld information that implicated the audience. You can’t help but project assumptions onto the unknowns – the diving question of […]