competition

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Iris Chassaigne about her short film Swan dans le centre selected in the 2023 National Competition (F4 programme).

Interview with Clara Anastácia and Gabriela Gaia Meirelles, co-directors of Escasso  What inspired you to make a mockumentary? It’s quite an original format! Clara: I wanted to portray the performative state of the present time. Not only the scene’s time, but also the speech, which always appears to be spontaneous. Inspired by YouTube videos and the works of the documentary maker Eduardo Coutinho, I […]

Watch the interview with the Jordanian filmmaker Lawrence Abu Hamdan about his short film 45th Parallel selected in the 2023 Lab Competition (L3 programme).

Watch the interview with the British filmmaker Elizabeth Hobbs about her short film The Debutante selected in the 2023 Lab Competition (L4 programme).

Interview with Soufiane Adel, director of Le Jour où j’étais perdu [One Day When I Was Lost]  alk to us about the bond that unites the Voyager and Alain’s journey.The Voyager space mission was started by NASA in the 70s with the goal of exploring the solar system and of sending signals of our societies on Earth to potential alien civilizations. It was […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Jean Decré about his short film Derrrière la nuit selected in the 2023 National Competition (F3 programme).

Watch the interview with the American filmmaker Dwayne LeBlanc about his short film Civic selected in the 2023 International Competition (I14 programme).

Interview with Fan Zhang, director of Nowhere Float What inspired you to tell the story of Xiaomei?Xiaomei is a Liuquin opera actress who escapes from her hometown Cangshan, doing house cleaning work in Shanghai. When she returns to Cangshan to her distanced relatives, her estranged husband and her mother with Alzheimer’s, she has mixed feelings. She wants to take her mother to live […]

Interview with Maisha Maene, director of Mulika What was the starting point of Mulika?    The idea of Mulika came when I was questionning the future of Congo, a country with gigantic mineral deposits but with a population that does not benefit from them. As an Afrofuturist filmmaker I wanted to imagine a future for my country and create a way to escape the exploitation […]

Watch the interview with the French-Swiss filmmaker Basile Vuillemin about his short film Les Silencieux selected in the 2023 National Competition (F3 programme).