compétition labo

Interview with Jean-Baptiste Alazard, director of Saint Jean-Baptiste [Saint John the Baptist] Where do the film’s images come from? Can you tell us more about the local festivals?The film is composed of images from two “sources”. There are shots that I took myself, from a kind of journal that I’ve kept for the last ten years, or forgotten drafts. I filmed these shots […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Théo Jollet about his short film Le Boug Doug selected in the 2022 Lab Competition.

Watch the interview with the Columbian filmmaker Nieto about his short film Swallow the Universe selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L4 programme).

Interview with Julia Siuda, director of Furia [Fury] How did you imagine the physical depictions of contrariety and growing anger?It was quite simple because the body abuse methods (head) were closely related to the source of the sounds that irritated me. For example, munching, as I imagine it, comes from the tongue. That is why I tear out the character’s tongue. It’s supposed […]

Interview with Lotfi Achour, director of Angle mort [Blind Spot] Why did you want to present this story using a first-person testimonial?All the details mentioned in the film are real facts that I was able to corroborate in several ways: the trial, witness accounts from the victims and the family, police reports, the judicial order… The more I dug around and went deeper, […]

Watch the interview with the Polish filmmaker Julia Siuda about her short film Furia selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L3 programme).

Interview with Théo Jollet, director of Le Boug Doug [Meet Doug] Why did you want to play with the question of forbidden acts: theft, trafficking, manipulation and so on?The initial idea for the character Doug that came out of my discussions with my long-standing collaborators Martin Maire and Thomas Trichet (together we form the trio JTM) was to come up with a young […]

Interview with Peter Tscherkassky, director of Train Again What has inspired you for Train Again?I found that wonderful footage of trains leaving a tunnel and approaching the camera – another time something highly reminiscent of the Brothers Lumière film Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, which already had inspired my film L’Arrivée in 1997. From here it was a little step […]

Watch the interview with the Russian filmmaker Leonid Shmelkov about his short film Ogurtsy selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L4 programme).

Watch the interview with the Thaï filmmaker Pom Bunsermvicha about her short film Lemongrass Girl selected in the 2022 Lab Competition.