compétition internationale

  Interview with Anastasiia Ksenofontova, director of Fabrichnaya etnografiya [Ethnography of Factories] Fabrichnaya etnografiya shows the unseen and the unknown: the daily life of the workers of a factory in Russia. What is it that has drawn you to do a documentary on this subject? It’s quite simple. The opportunity presented itself. How did you decide which images to use to illustrate the subject? I […]

Watch the interview with the Indian filmmaker Theja Rio and the producer Nancy Beso about the short film Angh selected in the 2021 International Competition (I3 programme).

  Interview with Chia-Hua Chin, director of Lucky Draw  What motivated you to explore this story and give it the backdrop of Taiwan’s reintroduced death penalty? In 2010, Taiwan Minister of Justice, Tseng Yung-fu, demanded the reinstatement of the death penalty which had been suspend for four years. One of the senior bailiffs who was in charge of the mission suddenly decided to retire. […]

  Interview with Öykü Orhan, director of Paydos [Break-Off] What has drawn you to the story of this mother struggling to feed her family? First of all, I should say that I am very happy that Paydos is shown at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival because Paydos is very important for me. It is my first film and story of Zeliha is a real […]

  Interview with Siiri Halko, director of Haikara How would you introduce the film to somebody who hasn’t seen it? Haikara is an absurd yet realistic film about the troubles of trying to find the right way of saying goodbye.  What did you wish to explore through the relationship between Veikka and his father Veikka and Kari have a kind of relationship in which […]

Watch the interview with the Australian filmmaker Adrian Chiarella about his short film Dwarf Planet selected in the 2021 International Competition (I13 programme).

  Interview with Jannis Alexander Kiefer, director of Kollegen [Good German Work] What did you want to explore in the relationship between the woodworkers and the film crew? The woodworkers are representative of the locals living in the village where our film takes place. A young woman and an older man who have lived in their region since they were born and who are […]

Watch the interview with the Chinese filmmaker Mei Liu about her short film Happy Ending selected in the 2021 International Competition (I4 programme).

Watch the interview with the Irish filmmaker Brendan Canty about his short film Jam selected in the 2021 International Competition (I12 programme).

Watch the interview with the Kazakh filmmaker Zhannat Alshanova about her short film History of Civilization selected in the 2021 International Competition (I9 programme).