Brasserie du court

Interview with Diego Céspedes, director of Las Criaturas Que se Derriten Bajo el Sol [The Melting Creatures] How did you get the inspiration for Las Criaturas Que se Derriten Bajo el Sol ?The original idea came from an image that was more plastic than thematic: the idea of a community melting under the sun and that they played games to find out who […]

Interview with Vincent Fontano, director of Sèt Lam  How does dance factor into your inspiration for Sèt Lam? To what extent was the act of dancing important to you? For Sèt Lam, dance is at the heart of the film because it is an act that heals, that creates community, and that helps deals with grief. The “Kabaré service” is a very special space […]

Interview with Salar Pashtoonyar, director of Koha wa Tapaha [Hills and Mountains] In Koha wa Tapaha, we hear the voice of the main character as she tells her story, but we don’t see her. What was your intent behind this choice?  There are two reasons. One was a creative choice and the second out of a solution to an obstacle imposed on us. Creatively, […]

Interview with Joachim Hérissé, director of Écorchée [Skinned] What did you want to explore in this relationship between the two women? Who or what inspired this relationship between them?With this film, I wanted to express the feelings that came from fever nightmares that I had as a child, in which I could feel my body going from an empty state to a full […]

Interview with Casandra Campo Ernst, director of Baile Entretenido [Fun Dance] Your film features a lead character who comes back home and reunites with her former friends. Did you have any real-life experiences which led you to write about the topic?We wrote the script together with Tiare, who is also the protagonist of the short film and a great friend. Everything arose from […]

Interview with Laen Sanches, director of PLSTC  Could you explain what the acronym PLSTC represents?  PLSTC is an invented acronym that simply means “plastic.” This word has several advantages: it is succinct, legible, and phonetically understandable in most languages. Also, with its “visually missing” letters, it also perhaps illustrates the idea that plastic does not totally disintegrate but rather, remains, in spite of everything, […]

Interview with Léo Blandino, director of Bitume [Asphalt] How did you happen to think of making a film about truck drivers?I wrote the script with Thimothée Meyrieux-Drevet who shared his research on drivers and the evolution of their working conditions. I was immediately interested by the topic. So then we had to figure out how to talk about it and come up with a […]

Interview with Julie Ecoffey, director of But What Does It Mean? Where did you come up with the idea for these two characters? My crew. I often find the banal conversations of those around me absurd and very funny, so I wanted to represent characters who were realistic in the way they spoke.   Why do they speak in English? Why the “twist”?  I used English […]

Interview with Cécile Mille, director of Cui cui cui  Why did you choose this subject? The desire to have children is a subject that I had to deal with for quite a few years. Later on, I saw others going through the same ordeal and I bore the guilt of those who succeeded. The birth of Cui cui cui comes from the desire to […]

Interview with Eli Jean Tahchi, director of Des voisins dans ma cour  What can you say about the wall that separates Mont-Royal, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Montreal, from Parc-Extensions, a neighborhood where immigrants and some of the city’s poorest people live? Since 1960, a fence made of chain links and steel rods, lining the Boulevard de l’Acadie—two meters high, 1.6 kilometers long, […]