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  Interview with Pedro Casavecchia, director of Pulsión Your film explores the descent into madness of a boy who grew up in a dysfunctional family. What was the appeal in this subjects ? Pulsión is a project that I did mostly on my own. 3D animation takes a really long time and I would say the hardest part is to remain committed till the end […]

  Interview with Karabo Lediga, director of What Did You Dream? How did you go about creating What Did You Dream? Can you talk us through the filming processes a little? I had a very detailed visual treatment based on what I remember of my grandmother’s house in the summers of the early 90s in the township of Atteridgeville, Pretoria. The visual treatment had to […]

  Interview with Sofia Alaoui, director of Qu’importe si les bêtes meurent [So What if the Goats Die] Why did you choose this title? The title of the film was obvious to me even before writing the screenplay, when I started becoming interested in the Universe and extraterrestrials. I found that there was something in these subjects that went beyond questions about material things, […]

  Interview with Shuichi Okita, director of Family Plot How did you go about creating Family Plot? Can you talk us through the filming processes a little? It was born out of a concept to make short films to promote a beverage product called Parada Calpis (Japanese beverage). The story that I wanted to make was selected to be turned into a short. What did […]

  Interview with Julien Silloray, director of Mortenol What made you want to make a film about revenge and can you see yourself making other films on the subject or that include it? When I started writing, I wanted to make a film in Mortenol with teenagers from the area and use a story based on an event that frequently takes place in Guadeloupe. […]

  Interview with Morad Mostafa, director of Henet Ward Can you tell us a bit about the situation of Sudanese minorities in Egypt? The situation of Sudanese refugees in Egypt is like the situation of any other refugees; like Syrians and Indonesians actually, or simple Egyptians themselves like Basma and her family, all have similar issues and dreams and ambitions and simple life requirements […]

  Interview with Mykyta Lyskov, director of Kohannia (Deep Love) Can you explain the title Kohannia? Kohannia (Кохання) is a purely Ukrainian word. This word means a close, sincere connection between people very similar to love but in a different deep sense. Therefore, it was rather difficult for me to find the equivalent of Kohannia in English, and as a result I chose Deep Love. Your short […]

  Interview with Ramazan Kiliç, director of Servİs [The School Bus] Is the film based on a true story? What inspired you to tell it? Not exactly! It includes both a true story and fictional events. I was inspired by a story from the news on Twitter about a female teacher who drives a school bus for her students, but behaved like a male […]

  An interview with Margot Barbé, director of Marie Boudin  Marie Boudin is an elegant short film that’s poetic and melancholic. What is its starting point? The film is first of all about a character, Marie Boudin. Coming home from school one evening, a friend and I were talking about names that made us laugh. Marie Boudin’s was still fresh in my mind. There […]

  Interview with Chunni Lin and Pang-Chuan Huang, codirectors of Yoakemae no KoiMonogatari [Before the Dawn] How did you know about Weng-Nao’s work? Why did you want to try to track him down? We first knew Weng-Nao’s work from a book, published in 2011, seventy years after his death; it was the first time all of his works were translated from Japanese to Mandarin […]