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  Interview with Cristèle Alves Meira, director of Campo de Viboras    There are some distinctive horror/mystery tropes in the film (the creepy masks, the carnival, the ominous bells at the end, the mysterious death). Are you particularly drawn to this genre? My first intent with this film was to imagine an extraordinary “fait divers”. Since my childhood, I’ve heard many strange and scary […]

  Interview with Khadidiatou Sow, director of Une place dans l’avion (A Seat on the Plane)    Can you tell us more about what inspired you to tell this story? I was drawn to this infatuation with emigrating at all cost, even knowing how difficult the voyage would be.  What is your background as a filmmaker? What made you decide to direct films?  Would you like […]

  Interview with Daisy Sadler, director of Sophiloscope    How did you come up with the idea for your film? The film is drawn from the brutal death of a schoolmate of mine when I was thirteen.  The whole film takes place on the school grounds and shows only the interactions among the students. Why did you choose to “lock up” your characters in […]

  Interview with Frédéric Radepont, director of Le sens des choses    Where did you get the idea for this unusual encounter? Le sens des choses is a story that stayed in a drawer for nearly five years. I wrote it during a very active and experimental period, when I often worked with a friend, Pierre Guibert. We made over thirty short films in […]

  Interview with Stéphan Castang, director of Panthéon Discount    What interested you in medical diagnosis? First, Panthéon Discount came from a proposition by Pascale Faure and Brigitte Pardot for the Canal+ short film collection “Demain si j’y suis” (Editor’s note: the entire program will be shown during the 2017 Festival). The order was clear for each director: write and direct a film that […]

  Interview with Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, directors of La république des enchanteurs (The Republic of Enchanters)    What inspired you to make this film? Is it part documentary? We were invited to shoot a film with the inhabitants of a neighborhood in Nantes for the “Dans Mon Hall” project organized by the production company De l’Autre Côté du Périph’ and the Confédération […]

  Interview with Javier García, director of Norte (North)    What motivated you to make a film about this programme? Mainly because I’ve always been interested in exploring the human mind through film. One day, Sergio Arróspide allowed me to read the script he had written and I fell in love immediately with his text. It is based on a true story. The Basque […]

  Interview with Émilie Aussel, director of Ta bouche mon paradis (Your Mouth Is My Paradise)    Why did you want to make a film about feelings and human relations? I’ve always been interested in that. In all of my films I try to paint a picture of our feelings. These have to do with group relations, our relations with others, our relation to […]

  Interview with Théodore Sanchez, director of Du plomb pour les bêtes (Lead For the Animals)    How did you come up with the idea for your film? First and foremost, I wanted to make a film about a scapegoat. My interest began to develop after the attacks in January 2015 amidst the extremely tense atmosphere they generated. Obviously, the perpetrators needed to found, […]

  Interview with Sarah Santamaria-Mertens, director of Blind Sex    Why did you decide to open the film with a love scene that is imposed on the character? That scene is the first one that I had in mind while writing the script and it remained intact through the final editing. I liked the idea of entering the story through sound, and then contrasting […]