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  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 […]

  Interview with María Cristina Pérez González, director of Todo es Culpa de la Sal [It’s All the Salt’s Fault] Can you explain to us your choice of title? The title comes from a quotidian family phrase when asked for who is to blame when something goes wrong; it also refers to the idea of something always present on the family’s table, and at […]

  Interview with Eloy Domínguez Serén, director of Os Corpos [The Bodies] Can you explain the choice of title? This short film is in a way a celebration of the encounter of the bodies, the flesh, seen from a time when this type of encounter is (temporarily) no longer allowed. They are bodies in ecstasy, sweaty, bewitched, raging, riotous… Thousands of people huddle, jump […]

  Interview with Max Barron, director of Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee The short is codirected with Michael Woodward. How did that collaboration come about? We have been working together for many years now – mainly in advertising. This is our first short film. People often think it’s strange for the director to not be one person, but we actually find it works […]