cinema

  Interview with Jonatan Etzler, director of Badaren [Swimmer] The film is based on real-life events. Can you tell us a bit about this?     Yes, the film is loosely based on a real event. The idea came to me when I read a small news item about two policemen trying to arrest a man in a public swimming pool. He refused to get out […]

  Interview with Anton Balekdjian, director of Les vilains petits canards [The Ugly Ducklings] What were you trying to explore through these two brothers and their relationship? At the outset, the film is my story, it comes from a very strong feeling I had when I wrote the script. And the composition slowly grew up around my need to talk about siblings and reunions. […]

  Interview with Laurynas Bareiša, director of Atkūrimas [Dummy] Atkūrimas, your powerful and chilling short, is about perversion and violence, and shows acts of raw brutality. How did you approach the filming of such scenes? First, I worked with Paulius, who played the perpetrator, separately and I introduced him to the rest of the cast only on the day of the shoot. I worked […]

  Interview with Sami Tlili, director of Hors-jeu flagrant [Obvious Offside] Do you have a particular interest in football? In your opinion, what place does football have in Tunisia? I am both a big fan of football as well as a critic of its excesses (the business of football, the political exploitation of football, the fanaticism of both the fans and the major actors […]

  Interview with Katarina Rešek, director of Sestre [Sisters] To somebody who hasn’t seen Sestre, how would you introduce it? Sestre is a story about three young “modern day virđinas” (sworn virgins), tomboys who are living by a set of rigid rules they have created for themselves in modern day Slovenia. They are all children of immigrants from Ex-Yugoslavia, which means they grew up in […]

  Interview with Sameh Alaa, director of I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face What did you want to explore in this story? The man’s grief? The lost relationship? Both. What made you come up with the idea of him dressing “as a woman”? I just wanted him to hide in order to see her for the last time – this type of costume […]

  Interview with Zhannat Alshanova, director of History of Civilization What would you say are Indira’s reasons for leaving? I think she felt stuck, but couldn’t figure out the actual problem. So she thought it could be a good idea to change everything – her job, her apartment and her country. Would you say there is a lack of opportunities or career development in […]

  Interview with Julien Goudichaud, director of Confinés dehors [Locked Out] Your short film, shot during the first lockdown, accompanies homeless people during the night as they try to do what they can to survive. What gave rise to this documentary project amidst this unique and exceptional situation? Around the end of the first week of lockdown, I went out for a walk at […]

  Interview with Michiel Blanchart, director of T’es morte Hélène The film tells the story of a person named Hélène who, following a fatal accident and seeming unaware of her own death, comes back to haunt her boyfriend. What was the starting point of this short film? The romantic breakup has always been a subject that moves me deeply and that appears time and […]

  Interview with Bilel Chikri, director of Narvalos  How did you choose the title Narvalos? I couldn’t find a title at first, except things too vulgar to write (haha), so my producer suggested I find something else. Then I decided to choose this word which is a familiar expression in my department to talk about quirky characters, the marginalized, who have always been part […]