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  An interview with Thanasis Neofotistos, director of Leoforos Patision (Patision Avenue)  Can you tell us, for those of us who don’t know, what happened on Patision Avenue? Why did you want to set the short there? The story of Katerina, Yanni’s mother, takes place on Patision Avenue. A young, aspiring actress is on her way to a very important audition, when she learns […]

  Interview with Paul-Louis Léger and Pascal Messaoudi, co-directors of Malanka  How did you learn about the Malanka celebration? Our initial idea was sparked by the photographs that the Austrian missionary Martin Gusinde took of the tribes of Tierra del Fuego in the 1920s: how man, when he dedicates himself to rituals, becomes even stranger than an extra-terrestrial. We also consulted Charles Fréger’s book […]

  An interview with Greg McLeod, codirector of Marfa  What or where is Marfa and does Marfa FM really exist? Marfa is situated in the high desert of the Trans-Pecos in far Texas, between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park. The town was founded in the early 1880s as a railroad water stop. Yes Marfa FM does exist: http://marfapublicradio.org  Why were you interested […]

  Interview with Tiphaine Raffier, director of La chanson [The Song]  What is your connection with Marne-la-Vallée? I grew up in Val d’Europe. This town is built more with signs than with bricks. There are people living in this copy town, it is them I’m interested in. How do you grow up in a town of lies? A town where the first injunction would […]

  An interview with Magdalena Jaroszewicz, director of Shooting Stars  What was your interest in picturing firecrackers festivities? Back in 2017 I was living on the most lively street in Berlin and I heard legends about how loud and crazy this street gets on New Year’s Eve. So I wanted to document this night of madness and freedom, understand its symbolic meaning for the […]

  Interview with Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, co-directors of Chien bleu [Blue Dog]  Did you choose the color blue in relation to the Hindu pantheon, or did it come later during the writing of the script? The color blue was there from the very beginning. It’s a color we love, a color that reminds us of our travels and that evokes in us […]

  An interview with Jesús Reyes, director of Elena  Can you tell us about the context in which the story is happening? Why did the paramilitary end up there? First, I must say that Elena is part of a trilogy composed by Red Land, 2013 and Genaro, 2017 (both premiered in Clermont-Ferrand in their respective years). This trilogy is about the paramilitary violence that happened […]

  Interview with Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, director of Swatted  How did you learn about the “swatting” phenomenon? In 2015, I experienced the phenomenon live. At the time I was interested in “let’s play”, a practice that came from video games where you film yourself live (gamestream) and comment on your game play. What interested me, beyond the violent arrests, was the strange overap on […]

  Interview with Claude Schmitz, director of Braquer Poitiers  We get the feeling that the film is driven by a reflection about workplace alienation. Is this theme at the origin of the film? Braquer Poitiers originated with my encounter with Wilfrid Ameuille, who is not an actor and who is in charge of a car wash company in real life. The project was conceived after […]

  Interview with Emmanuel Marre, director of D’un château l’autre [Castle to Castle]  How did you meet Pierre and Francine? Pierre Nisse is an actor, but he is above all a friend. Francine Atoch… she’s my mother. How did they end up in the film? A few days before the first round of the election, I felt that something was going on, there was something […]