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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 […]

Interview with Julie Ecoffey, director of But What Does It Mean? Where did you come up with the idea for these two characters? My crew. I often find the banal conversations of those around me absurd and very funny, so I wanted to represent characters who were realistic in the way they spoke.   Why do they speak in English? Why the “twist”?  I used English […]

Interview with Cécile Mille, director of Cui cui cui  Why did you choose this subject? The desire to have children is a subject that I had to deal with for quite a few years. Later on, I saw others going through the same ordeal and I bore the guilt of those who succeeded. The birth of Cui cui cui comes from the desire to […]

Interview with Shuli Huang, director of Will You Look at Me  How did the inspiration come about for Will You Look at Me? How much of the footage did you shoot on purpose? Did you work on the soliloquy first or after selecting footage?After I returned to China from New York during the pandemic, I bought a super 8mm camera. I brought it […]

Interview with Trinidad Plass, Titouan Tillier and Isaac Wenzek, co-directors of Ressources humaines  What was the starting point for the inspiration of the film? Are you particularly fond of certain objects?  We based the film around the theme “recycle what is not of use” and we thought that for once, it would be interesting if the material to be recycled were humans. This led […]

Interview with Sasha Argirov, director of Nurture Why did you choose this title in particular? Nurture just popped into my head one day when I was writing a draft of the script. As a title, it sums up the entire story for me. It also provides the perfect ironic counterpoint to the first image we see at the start of the film.  What was […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Yann Gonzalez about his short film Hideous selected in the 2023 Lab Competition (L3 programme).

Interview with Lois Patiño, director of El Sembrador de Estrellas [The Sower of Stars] How often do you work on poetry? Did you write a part of El Sembrador de Estrellas by yourself?I’m not used to writing poetry, just sometimes, but I like to read it a lot, and this project was a beautiful reason to start writing more. The script of this […]

Interview with Garance Kim, director of Ville éternelle [The Eternal City]  Why the choice of the Seine-et-Marne department as the setting? Who was the inspiration for these two characters?The starting point of this film was a desire for two characters who weren’t supposed to find themselves together to meet. To make this happen, we decided to nourish each one with personal anecdotes. So […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Frédéric Rosset about his short film La Vie au Canada selected in the 2023 National Competition (F6 programme).