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Interview with Pedro Díaz, director of La Entrega [The Hand Over]  La Entrega deals with loneliness and trauma. What is it that draws you to such topics?The thing that interests me the most is that these are themes hidden inside each of us. These are emotions we usually try to hide, that usually we have thought are signs of weakness. I am very interested in […]

   Interview with Maximilian Bungarten, director of The Age of Innocence  Who or what inspired you the character of Lev?Young men that work on a construction sites. In Germany, we have high demand for qualified skilled workers so a lot of young men are starting to work on a construction site in their teenage years. Some of them just only to make some […]

Interview with Daniel Soares, director of Please Make it Work  Did you use an in-camera editing technique, without additional elements? Is it for you an experiment or a routine?The film is really just one continuous take with no hidden cuts. It was an experiment and ended up working in the very last take of the only shoot day we had. But it is definitely also […]

Watch the interview with the Portuguese filmmaker Catarina Romano about her short film Seja Como For selected in the 2021 International Competition (I9 programme).

Watch the interview with the Chilean filmmaker Tito González García about his short film Sphinx selected in the 2021 National Competition (F6 programme).

Watch the interview with the Chinese filmmaker Mei Liu about her short film Happy Ending selected in the 2021 International Competition (I4 programme).

Watch the interview with the Welsh filmmaker Daniel Gray about his short film HIDE selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L2 programme).

  Interview with Christèle Alves Meira, director of Invisível Herói [Invisible Hero] The film, I believe, is staged, but it sometimes looks documentary. How did you achieve this result? Duarte is passionate about literature. He spends his days reading in the braille library that he built up over the years, located in the residence for blind people where he lives (filmed in the first […]

  Interview with Thorsten Fleisch, director of Mustererkenntnis [Pattern Cognition] How often do you direct cinematographic experiments? How many have you directed including a journey into extremely overcharged screens? I’ve been making short experimental films for more than 20 years now. Most of the films fall into the experimental animation category. On a few of them I was working with flickering and strobing for example […]

  Interview with Leeha Kim, director of Mascot What did you want to explore when creating this great character of a fox training in a mascot academy? I wanted to talk about a system or kind of factory that makes a standard and evaluates people on that basis. In Korea, people usually think being different is wrong. Mascot was selected in festivals in France […]