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  Interview with Quarxx, director of Un ciel bleu presque parfait (A Nearly Perfect Blue Sky)    How did you come up with the idea for your film? For some time now, I’d been wanting to tell a story about dysfunctional siblings. A dark, hopeless story that would lead its protagonists to the edge of madness in a silent, non-Manichean combat. After putting together […]

  Interview with Jonathan Millet, director of Et toujours nous marcherons [And Still We Will Walk On]    What interested you about the world of undocumented people in Paris? My wish for this film, Et toujours nous marcherons, was to write a tragedy. I wanted to unfold my story around people with a great deal at stake. Which is the case for undocumented people who […]

  Interview with Thelyia Petraki, director of Helga Är I Lund (Helga is in Lund)    So, tell us a bit more about who Helga is and where Lund is. Who is Helga is best finding out watching the film. Lund is a town in South Sweden where Helga can be probably found, or not?  Can you explain your idea of opening the film to […]

  Interview with Youn-Jung Lim, director of Fly    What inspired you to tell Eunbyeol’s story? I do believe that the films I make always reflect myself at certain stages of my life. And at the time, I was looking for a breakthrough, some kind of miracle in my life to keep me going. As a filmmaker, as a woman, as a person who tries to […]

  Interview with Will Goodfellow, director of The Spa    The film is both funny and quite sad, often simultaneously. Were you keen to provoke such a reaction in your audience? Would you say your cinematic work is often in this vein? Absolutely, yeah. I wanted it to feel bittersweet! I haven’t made enough films to say that creating this feeling state is part of […]

  Interview with Paul Jadoul, director of Totems    How did you get the idea to make Totems? This film is the culmination of many desires that came together in one story. Firstly, there was nature with its majestic forests. Then the concept of metamorphosis which I wanted to animate in order to symbolize feelings. And then Man and his humility. The story was […]

  Interview with Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire, Théophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon and Lucas Navarro, directors of Garden Party    What inspired you to make Garden Party ? We are all animal enthusiasts in general. And we chose to base the film on a film Gabriel made a few years ago, a story about two toads who chase a fly in a stream. We wanted […]

  Interview with Ladj Ly, director of Les misérables (The Miserables)    “Gavroche in the thicket”: the parallel between the young protagonists of your film and the character in Victor Hugo, was that the starting point? Yes, of course. I wanted to deal with young people in “tough neighborhoods”. They have been completely abandoned by our elite and left to fend for themselves from […]

  Interview with Yennifer Uribe Alzate, director of Como la Primera Vez (Like the First Time)    What were you seeking to explore in Rosa’s relationship with Dalia? Sexuality? Love? Empowerment? My intention was that Rosa understands that she had an intimacy of her own, which she had never explored, independently of her husband, her son, her home duties and her environment. I wanted […]

  Interview with Jac Clinch, director of The Alan Dimension     Who or what is the inspiration for Alan? Are there any autobiographical elements in there? The idea for Alan came from my own experience of very intense deja vu. I would feel like I’d seen a moment in a preceding dream, but I found it funny that these pre-ordained moments were incredibly mundane, […]