#ClermontFF22

Interview with Gulistan Mirzaei and Elizabeth Mirzaei, directors of Three Songs for Benazir How did you meet Benazir and Shaista? What decided you to make a documentary about them?We have known them for over 11 years. We first met Shaista in the camp when we were there for a different volunteer project. We felt we had known him for all of our lives. […]

Watch the interview with the Polish filmmaker Joanną Kożuch about her short film Bolo Raz Jedno More… selected in the 2022 International Competition (I6 programme).

Watch the interview with the Columbian filmmaker Nieto about his short film Swallow the Universe selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L4 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Marin Gérard about his short film À l’ombre l’après-midi selected in the 2022 National Competition (F4 programme).

Interview with Julia Siuda, director of Furia [Fury] How did you imagine the physical depictions of contrariety and growing anger?It was quite simple because the body abuse methods (head) were closely related to the source of the sounds that irritated me. For example, munching, as I imagine it, comes from the tongue. That is why I tear out the character’s tongue. It’s supposed […]

Watch the interview with the Tunisian filmmaker Ihsen Kammoun about his short film Road to El Kef selected in the 2022 International Competition (I13 programme).

Interview with Danil Ivanov, director of Holodno [It’s Cold] What has inspired you to shoot Holodno?On YouTube, I found a video where a former police officer was telling the story of how he and his partner, in his youth, were carrying the corpse of a fisherman on New Year’s Eve. The buses didn’t run and they had to pick up some passengers from […]

Interview with Ingrid Chikhaoui, director of Trois grains de gros sel [Three Grains of Coarse Salt] Is it fair to describe Trois grains de gros sel as a coming-of-age story? Do the two children come into their own?The film is about what it’s like growing up with an unstable parent; about the strategies children adopt to live with that. The children (and their mother) are […]

Interview with Lotfi Achour, director of Angle mort [Blind Spot] Why did you want to present this story using a first-person testimonial?All the details mentioned in the film are real facts that I was able to corroborate in several ways: the trial, witness accounts from the victims and the family, police reports, the judicial order… The more I dug around and went deeper, […]

Watch the interview with the Lebanese filmmaker Dania Bdeir about her short film Warsha selected in the 2022 National Competition (F12 programme).