cinema

  Interview with Judah Finnigan, director of Workshop Is this workshop based on anything you’ve actually done in real life? I’ve never done a workshop quite like this one. As I started writing the short, I’d just gotten back from a very intense directing workshop in L.A., which involved a lot of physically charged exercises and role-play. I’d also been doing therapy for a year or […]

  Interview with Tito Gonzalez García, director of Sphinx What interested you in the Oedipus character and in particular the episode where he meets the Sphinx? I think it’s the question of the riddle. I learned it when I was young without really knowing where it came from nor what it meant. The idea of the “monster” is another aspect that I’ve been working […]

  Interview with Sarah Blok and Lisa Konno, codirectors of Baba What motivated you to tell Baba’s story? Baba (Ceylan Utlu) is a very interesting character because of his ambiguity. On the one hand he is a very well educated, erudite, smart man and on the other hand, he completely denies that life didn’t quite go according to plan. Ceylan came from Turkey to […]

  Interview with Nicolas Birkenstock, director of Ourse Where did you get the idea to explore sleepwalking? I think it began with an image. An image of Armande Boulanger (the actress who plays Ourse) wandering empty alleyways, along railroad tracks, in a forest from a fairytale. I had just completed shooting a film with her though she was only 15 and I found that […]

  Interview with Salar Pashtoonyar, director of Bad Omen Can you tell us more about your choice of title? We were at a wedding ceremony. I was probably around 12 years old. One of the wedding traditions is that guests go up to the stage to take photos with the bride and groom. I noticed my mom didn’t participate in that. I asked her […]

  Interview with Matías Ganz, Director of Martin est tombé d’un toit [Martin fell from a roof] Where did your inspiration for Martin est tombé d’un toit come from? I imagined the story of Martin est tombé d’un toit after reading an enlightening investigation about construction workers who initiate legal action against their bosses subsequent to work-related accidents. All of the cases had been […]

  Interview with Bertille Estramon, director of Chienne [Bitch] What motivated you to tell this story? I started out wanting to make a film about the feeling of injustice. I thought back on the events that I had experienced or the stories I had been told… Then, I wanted to see a strong female character, who doesn’t let herself be pushed around. I wanted […]

Watch the interview with the Slovene filmmaker Katarina Rešek (Kukla) about her short film Sestre selected in the 2021 International Competition (I8 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Alexis Hellot about his short film Perles selected in the 2021 National Competition (F8 programme).

  Interview with Saïd Hamich, director of Le Départ [The Departure] How did you shoot the film and how did you go about casting? I shot in a suburb of Casablanca, in a new middle-class neighborhood that is popular with Moroccans who reside abroad, in the town of Had Soualem. These vacant lots, these buildings in the middle of nowhere… It is a very […]