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  Interview with Jorge Cantos, director of Günst ul vándrafoo [Gusts of Wild Life] Why were you interested in picturing the main character in such a mysterious way? The way we pictured the main character has a lot to do with adolescence itself. To me it is the most mysterious time in life; full of boundaries and unsolved questions. Teenagers always appear to me […]

  Interview with Shasha Huang, director of The Water Will Carry Us The film’s pace is rather peaceful and slow, making The Water Will Carry Us into a sort of a meditative film. Is this effect what you wanted to achieve? Yes. My original intention was to express the story and the reflection in a poetic way, similar to the meditative quality of the “water”, […]

  Interview with Cheyenne Canaud-Wallays, director of Tout va rentrer dans le désordre [Everything’ll Go Back to Disorder] Where did you get the idea for this film and what interested you about disorder? I worked in a market for years while I was studying. Disorder is a part of a market, which is a very rich place that offers a wide range of situations […]

  Interview with Simon Gionet, director of Cayenne What did you want to explore in the relation between the man and the young women? My intention was to explore the sense of apprehension that a woman can experience in her everyday life. The anxious feeling of being followed, the fear to be approached insistently and the possibility of a threat are ever-present. Whether it […]

  Interview with Jean-Claude Rozec, director of Têtard [Tadpole] What physical or digital media did you paint on for Tadpole? I designed the film’s visual world on paper, painting with watercolors. Subsequently, I looked for ways of re-transcribing that aesthetic with animation programs, which took up a bit of time before I found something satisfactory. I used TVPaint for all of the animation and […]

  Interview with Samir Karahoda, director of Në Mes [In Between] Where does the film take place and why have so many people left? The film takes place mainly in rural areas throughout Kosovo. Actually, this represents today’s image of the Balkans in general, where the villages are turning into ghost places. And it is not only the people of our country that have left, […]

   Interview with Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas, director of Genève [Geneva] Where did your inspiration for Genève come from? Oliver (the producer) and I were in a situation similar to that of the main character in Geneva. It’s a strange feeling to be the caregiver.  I wanted a way to convey this feeling without expressing it outright. One day I was at the movies with […]

  Interview with Maggie Briggs and Federico Spiazzi, codirectors of To Sonny Who is Sonny? Is he based on someone you met in real life? Maggie: The character of Sonny is loosely based on my own father, a vending machine loader himself in North Carolina, a man who after almost 40 years of being in the American workforce has become defined by his jobs […]

  Interview with Azadeh Moussavi, director of The Visit The film is based on a true story. How did you come across it? This story comes from my own life. When I was a child, my father got arrested for political reasons. My father was a journalist and the government was arresting some political activists in 1981 – my father was one of them. […]

  Interview with Konstantina Kotzamani, director of Electric Swan Can you tell us a bit about the filming process? What inspired you to tell this story? Well, the idea of Electric Swan started quite magically! I first moved to Buenos Aires in 2016. During my very first day in Buenos Aires, I had a long walk at the park where this film’s tropical swan lake lays. While I was […]