compétition internationale

  Interview with Lorna Nickson Brown, director of Ned & Me Obvious question. Why did you choose to explore this subject matter? Have you had any personal experience of the issues around euthanasia? I was drawn to this subject matter because I think it is one of the greatest questions of our age, or any age, and I don’t have an answer for it. […]

  Interview with Su-young Huh, director of Incomplete Woman What a highly unusual premise. Are any parts autobiographical? I started to write this story because of a sense of shame I felt when making artwork. I knew that I should keep trying hard (following the example of all the outstanding, skilled people I have met) but I found myself unable to do so, and […]

  Interview with Sonja Feldmeier, director of The Peepul Tree Can you tell us more about how you came across the felling of this tree? What drove you to make a film about it? All this happened in 2011 in Haridwar, a city in northern India. I encountered this spectacular tree felling on my way to the Himalayas. I was shocked and equally fascinated […]

  Interview with Catarina Romano, director of Seja como for [Anyhow, anyway] Seja como for translates as “Anyway, anyhow”. Why did you choose this title for your short? The title is a message of hope, focussing on her liberation. We may live in difficult times, we may feel that the values of our society are changing, we have to deal with economic crises, financial […]

  Interview with Zhiyi Wang, director of Some Manifestations of the South To somebody who hasn’t seen the film, how would you introduce it? A rather simple sentence to introduce the story itself: an unusual assignment for a young man paid to honour other people’s dead. Regarding other than the story, I am happy to mention that I have made some attempts in the […]

  Interview with Jonatan Etzler, director of Badaren [Swimmer] The film is based on real-life events. Can you tell us a bit about this?     Yes, the film is loosely based on a real event. The idea came to me when I read a small news item about two policemen trying to arrest a man in a public swimming pool. He refused to get out […]

  Interview with Laurynas Bareiša, director of Atkūrimas [Dummy] Atkūrimas, your powerful and chilling short, is about perversion and violence, and shows acts of raw brutality. How did you approach the filming of such scenes? First, I worked with Paulius, who played the perpetrator, separately and I introduced him to the rest of the cast only on the day of the shoot. I worked […]

  Interview with Katarina Rešek, director of Sestre [Sisters] To somebody who hasn’t seen Sestre, how would you introduce it? Sestre is a story about three young “modern day virđinas” (sworn virgins), tomboys who are living by a set of rigid rules they have created for themselves in modern day Slovenia. They are all children of immigrants from Ex-Yugoslavia, which means they grew up in […]

  Interview with Sameh Alaa, director of I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face What did you want to explore in this story? The man’s grief? The lost relationship? Both. What made you come up with the idea of him dressing “as a woman”? I just wanted him to hide in order to see her for the last time – this type of costume […]

  Interview with Zhannat Alshanova, director of History of Civilization What would you say are Indira’s reasons for leaving? I think she felt stuck, but couldn’t figure out the actual problem. So she thought it could be a good idea to change everything – her job, her apartment and her country. Would you say there is a lack of opportunities or career development in […]