compétition nationale

Interview with Clémence Le Gall, director of Le Chant du feu [The Light’s Song] Why did you choose a lighthouse as the setting for your film? Did you want to explore the impact of automation? I grew up close to the sea, in Loire Atlantique. The coastline always seemed to be an interesting place to film. In this space, there is an indescribable […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmakers Caroline Brami and Frédéric Bas about their short film L’Inspection selected in the 2022 National Competition (F9 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Lauriane Lagarde about her short film Un corps brûlant selected in the 2022 National Competition.

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Victor Trifilieff about his short film Les Curiosités du mal selected in the 2022 National Competition.

Interview with Marion Harlez Citti, director of Ce n’est rien [Shush Tony] In Ce n’est rien, to what extent did you want to address the issue of breakups? Do you plan on making any more films on this topic?I wanted to talk about the influence a relationship has and how difficult it is to break up when in this kind of relationship. Separation […]

Interview with Marie Larrivé, director of Noir-Soleil Had you visited Vesuvius before? Why did you choose that location for Noir-Soleil?Yes, I’d gone with my parents when I was a child and I went back there to scout while I was writing the script in order to create a coherent space. I like the idea of an ancestral danger that hovers over everything, a disturbing […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Nicolas Panay about his short film Le Point de reprise selected in the 2022 National Competition (F3 programme).

Interview with Sébastien Betbeder, director of Planète triste [Planet Gloom] How did you end up meeting the characters in Planète triste? What did they bring to the writing of the script?Planète triste arose from a commission from the city of Ivry and the Le Luxy movie theater through Jean-Jacques Ruttner (thanks also to the production support of Envie de Tempête). In the past, […]

Interview with Geordy Couturiau, director of La Flûte enchantée [The Magic Flute] Tell us a bit about Momo and Arnaud. Are they based on people you know in real life? The character Arnaud gets his name from a close friend of mine, Arnaud Orengue, without whom the film would not be what it is. He was with us from the very beginning up to […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Janloup Bernard about his short film J’avais un camarade selected in the 2022 National Competition (F1 programme).