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  An interview with Corina Schwingruber Ilić, director of All Inclusive   Why were you interested in luxury cruises? The cruises you see in my film are not luxury cruises. We only shot on cruises that are affordable for middle-class people. While back in the old days the destinations and the luxury of a floating hotel room were the main attractions, today’s shipping companies surpass each other with […]

  Interview with Marc James Roels and Emma De Swaef, co-directors of Ce magnifique gâteau ! (This Magnificent Cake!)  Quelles matières avez-vous utilisées pour vos personnages et pour vos décors ? Everything you see in the film, including all the walls, trees and water is made out of wool and fabrics. The only exception we make are the eyes, so they are the only […]

  Interview with Héloïse Pelloquet, director of Côté cœur [Love Life]  Do you have a particular affinity for the world of ports and fishing? I really like filming fishing ports. Through their geography, size and infrastructure they tell a lot about the city – or island – around them. They are often divided into two spaces, one for pleasure and one for sea workers; as such, […]

  Interview with Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, director of Pauline asservie [Pauline Enslaved]  You mentioned that Fragments d’un discours amoureux by Roland Barthes was at the origin of this film. Can you tell us more about this? I’ve been wanting to do something based on this work for a long time. It is a very intelligent and accurate work with regards to love and the way […]

  An interview with Esther Niemeier, director of Tracing Addai  At the beginning of this project, did you want to deal with war in general or with Daesh’s European fighters specifically? My motivation to make this film was mainly driven by the personal connection I have with the main protagonist, Addai, and his family as he is someone that I knew very well. Because […]

  Interview with Donato Sansone, director of Bavure [Dripping]  Is Bavure primarily a film or an example of surrealist automatic writing? Bavure is a bit of an “instinctive” short film that derives almost automatically from the end point of things I’d already dealt with in other works. There isn’t a real story, well actually there is one, but it’s simply banal because the story here is an […]

  An interview with Andrew Stephen Lee, director of Manila is Full of Men Named Boy  What elements of the story are based on real-life events? I was backpacking in Europe during Michael Jackson’s funeral and I was surprised at how many people gave me their condolences. I don’t know Michael Jackson at all so it was quite funny to me at the time. […]

  Interview with Nicolas Boone, director of Las Cruces  Why did you want to shoot in Bogota? How did you learn about the Las Cruces neighborhood? Julien Naveau, producer at Noodles Production, offered me to make a film in Bogota. I went there to scout the location. We visited several neighborhoods in the city. When I discovered “Las Cruces”, I knew right away that […]

  Interview with Laurianne Escaffre and Yvonnick Muller, co-directors of Pile poil  Can you tell us about how Pile Poil, this extremely fair and formidably funny film, came into being? Yvonnick: Lauriane had spent a few days at a friend’s house, where her friend’s sister was preparing for her beautician certification… She was panicked, searching for a model for her practical exam. That’s when […]

  An interview with Jack King, director of Prints  What did you like in the use of prints or footprints as a plot device and a title? I think I began just liking the imagery, but the more I thought about it the more it seemed to fit thematically, on a few levels, and so it became part of its fabric. Being from the […]