compétition internationale

Watch the interview with the Dutch filmmaker Eliane Esther Bots about her short film In Flow of Words selected in the 2022 International Competition.

Watch the interview with the Australian filmmaker George-Alex Nagle about his short film Mate selected in the 2022 International Competition (I10 programme).

Interview with Francesco Romano, director of Ambasciatori Ambasciatori evokes the violence of a hidden community, in which older men try to buy sex from two young albanian men. How did you decide on this topic and protagonists to make a film about?For my works I always tend to start and be inspired by the reality that I live or observe.  I learned of […]

Interview with Ihsen Kammoun, director of Road to El Kef The film explores quite complex family issues; no mean feat for a film that’s under half an hour. What did you want to explore through these relationships? One of the things I felt strongly about was that I wanted this film to have its own time to tell its story for as long as […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Kate McMullen about her short film Little Berlin selected in the 2022 National Competition (F10 programme).

Interview with Ian Barling, director of Safe How was Safe born? What interested you in this father and son relationship?Safe was conceived out of a desire to tell a story concerning my hometown and the people that make it up. I was also interested in exploring a father/son relationship as a sort of re-imaging or hypothetical exploration of the fractured connection that I […]

Watch the interview with the Swedish filmmaker Angelika Abramovitch about her short film Tjejtoan 4-ever selected in the 2022 International Competition.

Interview with Elizabeth Rocha Salgado, director of São Paulo Open Wound How did you meet the Mamba Negra collective? I have been in one of their parties in Rio de Janeiro. It was amazing. It is a party with many performances from different artists.  Why did you choose to make a documentary about this underground scene in Brazil?My producer met them in Amsterdam, where […]

Interview with Ian de la Rosa, director of Farrucas What interested you in the life of the Moroccan-Spanish community in Spain?It is something I have always been close to, because of where I grew up, in the south of Spain, one of the gateways for the migrant community, especially from North Africa. I was also very interested in the Andalusian past, and I […]

Watch the interview with the Latvian filmmaker Edmunds Jansons about his short film Guard of Honour selected in the 2022 International Competition (I6 programme).