compétition internationale

Interview with Michael Graversen and Florian Elabdi, co-directors of Ghosts of Mória What made you decide to make a documentary about the refugees from the camp of Moria?Moria was Europe’s largest refugee camp and, in many ways, it became a symbol of Europe’s handling of the refugee crisis for the past years where our core human values were put to the test. A […]

Interview with Ali Cabbar, director of Bahçeler Put Kesildi [Gardens petrified] Where did the idea for the movie come from?I have been living in Istanbul for many years and I have been dealing with cinema and television works. My family lives in Manisa and looks after our vineyards, which we have cultivated with great care for generations. We lost my father in late […]

Interview with Christoph Büttner, director of In Seiner Gnade [In His Mercy] How did you come across La Torture par l’espérance, the particularly cruel short story by Auguste de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, and what has drawn you to make an animated film of it?By March 2018 I already had been stuck since four months in story development of my graduation film. I realized […]

Interview with Varun Raman and Tom Hancock, co-directors of Man or Tree How did you come up with the idea for Man or Tree?It is based on a true story – the real-life experience of a friend, who had an intense salvia trip and had become convinced that he had lived the life of a tree for hundreds of years.  Towards the end […]

Interview with Romain Dumont, director of Au plaisir les ordures ! (See You Garbage!) For your second short film, you chose to address the subject of class contempt and the mechanisms of social domination. Did current events, works of fiction or documentaries or even readings fuel this choice?I don’t see how current events could have inspired me to address class contempt, knowing that […]

Interview with Émilie Pigeard, co-director of Babičino Seksualno Življenje [Granny’s Sexual Life] How did the idea of asking old women to speak about their sex life come to you and Urška? How did you manage to handle this sensitive topic with them?The idea for the film comes from a Slovenian book entitled Fire, Ass and Snakes Are Not Toys which transcribes the testimonies of women about […]

Interview with Cheol Hwi Kim, director of Hidden Road Can you tell us a bit about your inspirations and the story behind Hidden Road?It began with the image of two cars bumped on a deserted road. The story was built on that image, but the proper location didn’t seem to exist in Korea. So I tried my best to find the most similar location […]

Interview with Eliane Esther Bots, director of In Flow of Words How was In Flow of Words born?In Flow of Words was born out of a coincidental meeting with one of the interpreters, Alma, whom I met at a film festival in our hometown The Hague. Alma was behind a camera and as a fellow filmmaker I approached her and asked what she […]

Interview with Katherine Propper, director of Birds How was Birds born?I wanted to make this film, in part, to explore my creative process. My last short film involved a local community of young people whom I spent time with and worked with to make a film about their world. Birds expands on that approach more deeply. This film is more improvised, more off-the-cuff […]

Interview with Morad Mostafa, director of Khadiga Is Khadiga based on someone you know? What motivated you to tell her story? Khadiga is a character we all know, and she exists in all societies in different forms and ways. What prompted me to tell this story is that it is a story that I’d like to tell because it affects me very much and […]