compétition internationale

Watch the interview with the Mexican filmmaker José Permar about his short film Ir y Volver selected in the 2022 International Competition (I3 programme).

Interview with Andrea Szelesová, director of Sestry [Sisters] Can you tell us a bit about your inspiration and the story behind the story of Sestry?I thought for a long time what my graduation movie would be about. I had too many emotions I struggled to express. Problems at home, a loved one struggling with addiction and myself struggling with my self-worth. Many ideas had […]

Watch the interview with the Belgian filmmaker Youri Orekhoff about his short film Balaclava selected in the 2022 International Competition (I13 programme).

Interview with Marian Freistühler, director of Die Geheimnisvollen Inseln [Islands in the City] Did the lockdowns and more generally the pandemic draw you to make a film that deals with the ideas of longing and loneliness?It may sound paradoxical, but what I observed during the first contact restrictions was the opposite of loneliness. There were a few weeks in Hamburg’s spring 2020 when […]

Watch the interview with the American filmmaker Katherine Propper about her short film Birds selected in the 2022 International Competition (I10 programme).

Interview with Gina Kippenbroeck, director of Ensom Cowgirl [Lonely Cowgirl] How was Ensom cowgirl born?It started with a feeling and a mood, more than an actual plot or idea for a character. During a long and dark Copenhagen winter, I moved into a new apartment which had a quite dystopian view from the living room window. I did most of my developing and […]

Watch the interview with the Russian-German filmmaker Alexandra Brodski about her short film Joy selected in the 2022 International Competition (I3 programme).

Interview with George-Alex Nagle, director of Mate What did you seek to explore through the relationship between John and Jack?For my co-writer Daniel Corboy and myself, the starting point of this film was questioning “what would my thirteen-year-old self-think of my thirty-year-old self?” Although both characters and their relationship to one another did evolve greatly throughout the writing process, and although we were […]

Interview with Olive Nwosu, director of Egúngún [Masquerade] How was Egúngún born?Egúngún was born from a desire to investigate my own feelings about the idea of “Home”. As a wanderer, who has lived in many identities, this is a question I often grapple with: this sense of different lived lives, and possibilities of lives. How Fate takes us down one road – and […]

Interview with Alejandro Alonso, director of Abisal [Abyssal] The ship-breaking yard appears to be the perfect filming location for Abisal, that deals with spirituality and ghostly presence. How did you come up with this idea? We discovered the ship-breaking yard by navigating through Google Earth. From a satellite view, Bahía Honda is full of small, rectangular-shaped spots. Understanding that they were destroyed ships in […]