cinema

  Interview with Joanne Rakotoarisoa, director of Nous ne sommes pas encore morts [We Are Not Dead Yet] Why were you interested in depicting a group of young post-teens just getting ready to embark on their adult lives? I met the group of kids who are the basis for the film when I was still a student. I was travelling to Ukraine, a country […]

  Interview with Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, director of  Maalbeek  Did you meet Sabine by chance, or did you look for her subsequent to the media coverage of her amnesia?  I met Sabine through the Life4Brussels association because I was looking to meet people who had been affected in one way or the other by the bombing. On the morning of March 22, I was supposed to take the subway […]

  Interview with Alexis Hellot, director of Perles What inspired you to make Perles, and why did you choose to make it a thriller? In the beginning, there was an image of an abandoned car under a tree in a sort of clearing. There is a woman inside. A man comes to see her. Everything started from that. The issue of the Roma slums […]

A video interview with the member of the Lab Jury Jeanne Added, Singer, songwriter, performer and producer.

Watch the interview with the Swiss filmmaker Gabriel Böhmer about his short film Push This Button If You Begin to Panic selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L5 programme).

  Interview with Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzch, directors of Masel Tov Cocktail The short deals with identity and stereotypes. What has drawn you to make a film about this issue? This project was the third-year project in film school. Every film student has heard the phrase “Make something of your own life reality.” Hence, it all started with this idea: What does it […]

  Interview with Alexe Poukine, director of Palma Can you explain your choice of title? During the preparatory stages and the shooting of the film, the project was called Kiki, after the class mascot. The film was written as a tragi-comedy, but the project went through a transformation as time went on. At the end of editing, we realized that the original title didn’t […]

  Interview with Anastasiia Ksenofontova, director of Fabrichnaya etnografiya [Ethnography of Factories] Fabrichnaya etnografiya shows the unseen and the unknown: the daily life of the workers of a factory in Russia. What is it that has drawn you to do a documentary on this subject? It’s quite simple. The opportunity presented itself. How did you decide which images to use to illustrate the subject? I […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Bastien Dubois about his short film Souvenir souvenir selected in the 2021 National Competition (F3 programme).

  Interview with Alberto Vázquez, director of Homeless Home Why did you want to relate the appearance of the characters to famous mystical figures (sorceress, ghost, devil, etc.)? I liked the idea of ​working with witches, ogres, orcs and wizards to delve into current social issues, because although the protagonists of the short film are monsters, their problems are very human: economic crisis, depopulation, […]