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Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Frédéric Rosset about his short film La Vie au Canada selected in the 2023 National Competition (F6 programme).

Interview with Bi Gan, director of A Short Story What inspired you to make A Short Story?The inspiration for the script is the bedtime stories I often made up for my children. I keep notes of the interesting ones. How long did you work on the script before starting to shoot? How much space did you leave for improvisation?We spent about a month […]

Interview with Théo Audoire and Lova Karlsson, co-directors of Ovan Gruvan  How did you learn of the situation in this city? Lova had been there several times, so she had heard about relocations. Kiruna sits atop the largest iron mine in Europe, and this mining activity threatens certain neighborhoods from collapse. This situation particularly concerns the city center, which is currently being relocated three […]

Interview with Pablo Cuturrufo, director of The Phantom Touch How did you construct your narrative from the VR chats in The Phantom Touch? Did you approach users with the project already in mind?       The narrative was built along the way, as when I started I was not sure what the documentary was going to be about. I just knew I wanted to explore and […]

Interview with Amartei Amar, director of TsutsuƐ What was the starting point of TsutsuƐ?TsutsuƐ was born through three spiritually interwoven true stories. The first was from an experience our Producer had when a neighbourhood boy discovered a dead body in an open sewer. As he went to tell others, it rained a great thunderstorm. By the time he managed to get everyone to […]

An interview with Lisa Enes, director of Portør How familiar are you with the hospital as a workplace? Why did you set the film there?In 2016, I started working part-time at the bottom of the hospital hierarchy as a hospital porter – a person who moves patients and vital supplies between departments. Prior to this, hospitals were an unknown world for me. It was […]

Interview with Pedro Díaz, director of La Entrega [The Hand Over]  La Entrega deals with loneliness and trauma. What is it that draws you to such topics?The thing that interests me the most is that these are themes hidden inside each of us. These are emotions we usually try to hide, that usually we have thought are signs of weakness. I am very interested in […]

Interview with Florentina Gonzalez, director of El After del Mundo What made you choose to locate this encounter in the middle of an environment in a process of destruction?I’m interested in dystopia as a genre because above all I feel it’s very entertaining and liberating: it all starts at the end of what we know. What did you find interesting in the relationship […]

Interview with Hekuran Isufi, director of I Kemi Varros Baballarët I Kemi Varros Baballarët deals with Dardan’s return  from France to Kosovo to visit his father’s grave. What were you interested in exploring with a film that talks about exile and mourning?  The film talks about a country that’s still marked by its past, by war – by the past that still weighs down […]

Watch the interview with the Brazilian-Canadian filmmaker Jorge Camarotti about his short film Ousmane selected in the 2022 International Competition (I7 programme).