compétition nationale

interview with Marine Levéel, director of L’Homme à la Mercedes pourpre How did you come up with the character Annie and what did you want to explore through her story and her relationship with her daughter?I came up with Annie through observing several people I know from generations that precede mine. By hanging out with them, I wanted to talk about the complexity […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmakers Eliott Benard and Yanis Belaid about their short film Les Larmes de la Seine selected in the 2022 National Competition (F9 programme).

Interview with Kate McMullen, director of Little Berlin Why were you interested in the Berlin wall at first?I started thinking about it in 2019, when Germany was celebrating 30 years since the fall of the Wall – but I needed a new angle. Doing some digging, I came across Mödlareuth, a sleepy farming village which was split in two by the Iron Curtain in 1946. […]

Watch the interview with the Palestinian filmmaker Rakan Mayasi about his short film Trumpets in the Sky selected in the 2022 National Competition (F3 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Anne-Sophie Bailly about her short film La Ventrière selected in the 2022 National Competition (F10 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmakers Laetitia de Montalembert and Faustine Crespy about their short film Cataracte selected in the 2022 National Competition (F4 programme).

Interview with Yoriko Mizushiri, director of Anxious Body How much is your creativity committed to the depiction of sensations and feelings? How did you work on this aspect for Anxious body specifically?I am not interested in giving a meaning or message through my work. Instead, I want to connect with the audience by expressing sensations and feelings that can be conveyed without a […]

Interview with Dania Bdeir, director of Warsha How did you come up with the character? Is he based on someone you know?In 2017, I was sitting on my balcony in Lebanon overlooking all of Beirut and I saw a man standing on top of one of the tallest construction cranes. I was afraid thinking the man was going to jump. It all looked […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Olivier Bayu Gandrille about his short film TNT selected in the 2022 National Competition (F11 programme).

Interview with Dania Reymond-Boughenou, director of Constellation de la Rouguière [Constellation] Where did your desire to make a film about the Rouguière neighborhood in Marseille come from?That part of Marseille comes out of a very specific context: 1962 when Algeria gained its freedom. At that moment, the repatriates from the war became la Rouguière’s first inhabitants. Several waves of immigration followed, including many […]