compétition nationale

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Iris Chassaigne about her short film Swan dans le centre selected in the 2023 National Competition (F4 programme).

Interview with Soufiane Adel, director of Le Jour où j’étais perdu [One Day When I Was Lost]  alk to us about the bond that unites the Voyager and Alain’s journey.The Voyager space mission was started by NASA in the 70s with the goal of exploring the solar system and of sending signals of our societies on Earth to potential alien civilizations. It was […]

Interview with Diego Céspedes, director of Las Criaturas Que se Derriten Bajo el Sol [The Melting Creatures] How did you get the inspiration for Las Criaturas Que se Derriten Bajo el Sol ?The original idea came from an image that was more plastic than thematic: the idea of a community melting under the sun and that they played games to find out who […]

Interview with Vincent Fontano, director of Sèt Lam  How does dance factor into your inspiration for Sèt Lam? To what extent was the act of dancing important to you? For Sèt Lam, dance is at the heart of the film because it is an act that heals, that creates community, and that helps deals with grief. The “Kabaré service” is a very special space […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Johanna Caraire about her short film Sardine selected in the 2023 National Competition (F5 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Matthieu Salmon about his short film Invisibles selected in the 2023 National Competition (F7 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Valentine Cadic about her short film Les Grandes Vacances selected in the 2023 National Competition (F7 programme).

Interview with Joachim Hérissé, director of Écorchée [Skinned] What did you want to explore in this relationship between the two women? Who or what inspired this relationship between them?With this film, I wanted to express the feelings that came from fever nightmares that I had as a child, in which I could feel my body going from an empty state to a full […]

Interview with Léo Blandino, director of Bitume [Asphalt] How did you happen to think of making a film about truck drivers?I wrote the script with Thimothée Meyrieux-Drevet who shared his research on drivers and the evolution of their working conditions. I was immediately interested by the topic. So then we had to figure out how to talk about it and come up with a […]