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  Interview with Simon Guélat, director of Cabane (A Tree House)    In Cabane, you explore social behaviors and initiatory “tests”. Your characters are also in search of themselves. Do you think that cultural rituals can help to build one’s identity? Is it up to each person to create their own? Yes, I’m interested in our ability to re-enchant the world, and to transcend […]

  Interview with Yujian Li, director of Pain in Silence     Firstly, could you tell us about your choice of title? I have had several titles before, such as Cat, Punishment, He Wei… But Pain in Silence expresses the theme and aesthetics of this film more explicitly.  Can you tell us about the tone of the film? There are some hints of the horror/mystery […]

  Interview with Jordi Perino, director of Marie salope (Bloody Marie)    How did you come up with the idea of the encounter between Marie and Karim? Marie is a character very freely based on a young girl I know. Strong, but who doesn’t have the words to define herself, raised in denial of her own condition. I didn’t want to focus on her […]

  Interview with Jiyuan Ler, director of The Drum    Can you tell us about the family arrangements? Why was the young man living with the couple?  If the “young man” you are referring to is Chandran, he is the lead character Kang’s tenant. He is an Indian expat working in Singapore as an engineer. We catch him at the beginning of the film […]

  Interview with Laura Henno, director of Koropa    How did you make Koropa? Did you conduct research on clandestine migrant smugglers? I’ve been working on clandestine migration since 2009, first in Rome then Reunion Island and Calais. It was on Reunion Island that I found out about the migratory situation between the Comoros and Mayotte. I worked there for three successive years on […]

  Interview with Diego Fió, director of La Canoa de Ulises (Ulises’ Canoe)     What motivated you to tell a story about Guarani culture and traditions? Why a canoe? The first reason is the jungle. I have been attracted by the jungle since I was young. I have had the opportunity to travel across the Amazon and I always wanted my first movie to […]

  Interview with Guillaume Rieu, director of Mars IV    How did you come up with the idea to place your characters in an extra-terrestrial setting? Do you have a particular view on space exploration? I have always been fascinated by the planet Mars, and in particular for its impact on science fiction literature, from John Carter and The Martian Chronicles to Total Recall. […]

  Interview with Léa Triboulet, director of The Brother    What interested you in the relationship to grief? The Brother explores the solitude of three sisters and their difficulties grappling with the loss of their brother. Contrasting absence and presence, we follow these characters in New Orleans, a city itself in a state of grief and rebuilding. I became interested in what happens after […]

  Interview with Lorenzo Bianchi, director of Le petit (The Little Guy)    Your hero, Luka, is a twelve-year-old boy. Why did you decide to base your film around a child? Initially, I wanted to make a film based on Georges Bataille’s childhood. Not a biopic, but a narrative framework and a world that I felt close to and that would have allowed me […]

  Interview with Katrina Whalen, director of Bird Dog    What motivated you to tell this story for your graduation film? Is it significant that the bird is a mourning dove? I wrote a version of this script as part of my school application for NYU Grad Film, a loose tone poem about a girl and her father out hunting. A few years later, while struggling […]