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  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 […]

  Interview with Sarah Van den Boom, director of Raymonde ou l’évasion verticale [Raymonde or the Vertical Escape]  Why did you place Raymonde in a rural environment, with gardens and nature? Because for me, Raymonde’s pastoral setting is part of the story, it is a context that is indissociable from the character. Raymonde is a woman of the countryside of yesteryear, she is not […]

  Interview with Yves Piat, director of Nefta Football Club  Why did you want to film in Nefta ? Initially, I wanted to film in Zagora, in the Moroccan desert, and that’s actually where the script began, on the Algerian border. I’m pretty familiar with the region around Zagora since I spent six days walking across the desert with a guide a few years […]

  Interview with Marine Levéel, director of La traction des pôles [Magnetic Harvest]  Can you tell us how La traction des pôles came into being? I wanted to write an love story without words, an internal story, and to create a portrait of sensitive characters who hide their true feelings, a bit like in the countryside of my childhood. I also wanted the film […]

  An interview with Julio O. Ramos, director of Desecho  How much were you interested in the question of illegal workers? Do you have further projects on this theme? As an immigrant living in the US, I’m always intrigued by immigrant tales. Illegal immigration is one of them, but more accurately, this film depicts labor trafficking. The workers in the film, with the exception of […]

  Interview with Maxime Roy, director of Beautiful Loser  The film is about a recovering drug addict, Michel, about his fight to break free of the hold drugs have on him, and on his relationship to fatherhood. Was it your ambition to explore the question of marginality in the film, to focus on a world that is seldom seen on the screen? For three […]

  Interview with Eimi Imanishi, director of Battalion to my Beat    Is Mariam based on someone you’ve met? Yes, Mariam is a combination of two Saharawi women I met and am very fond of. One of them is Mariam (my character’s namesake), my husband’s sister who lives in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, and the other is Murjer, a woman I met […]

  Interview with Nick Jordan, director of Thought Broadcasting    So where did the idea of focusing on broadcasting come from? I’ve been wanting to make a film related to psychiatry and mental health for some time. For many years I’ve been involved in producing mental health training videos for a University and hospital teaching unit, so I’ve been somewhat immersed in the subject. […]

  Interview with José Miguel Ribeiro, director of Estilhaços (Fragments)    Can you tell us about your animation style? What got you into this field? I don’t know if I have a animation style, what I can tell you is that in each film I try to explore new graphic styles, techniques, and ways of telling a story. Until now, each project was born […]

  Interview with Gunhild Enger and Jenni Toivoniemi, directors of Kommittén (The Committee)    How did your collaboration on this film start? We were invited to CPH:LAB program to collaborate together and luckily shared same sense of humor and found the possibility inspiring.  For the uninitiated, could you explain a little bit more about this junction between the three countries and its significance? Treriksröset […]