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  Interview with Julietta Korbel, director of Still Working What inspired you tell Pavel’s story? I guess the name Pavel is somehow symbolic. It is the name of my painter grandfather, whom I was very close to and who brought me up. He was a Hungarian-Slovak immigrant, who came to Switzerland in 1968. When he passed away, I inherited his painting studio in Montreux, […]

  Interview with Robert Morgan, director of Tomorrow I Will Be Dirt How did you get the inspiration for Tomorrow I Will Be Dirt? The film was a commission from Arrow Films, who had restored and were releasing Jorg Buttgereit’s 1993 film Schramm. They commissioned me to make an accompanying short film that would be included on the Blu-ray. So that was my inspiration! I […]

  Interview with Joël Curtz, director of Une chance unique [A Unique Opportunity] What was your inspiration for Une chance unique? The film is an adaptation of Erwan Desplanques’ short story Une chance unique. I like his handwriting, very clever, especially in the relationships between the characters. I was also inspired by the encounters I had while hitchhiking, a means of transport that I […]

  Interview with Lawrence Valin, director of The Loyal Man Why did you decide to set the film within a network of traffickers? I wanted to tell the story of the lives of these young people who are locked in a system, cut off from their families, whose only reference point is their work. Did you do prior research into mafia circles and their […]

  Interview with Bérangère McNeese, director of Matriochkas What were you looking for in the toxic relationship between an immature mother and a young girl with no bearings? I wanted to talk about motherhood and mothers in the way that I see them so often around me: not necessarily as symbols or figures, but as humans, human beings who clumsily do the best they […]

  Interview with Thomas Trichet, director of Le taxi de Sun City [The Sun City Taxi] How did you come up with the main character’s repressed desires? Did you do research into psychological disturbances? The obsessing and ruminating of Charles, the main character, is based on a mental illness called the “phobia of committing impulsive acts”, which is a fear of giving in to […]

  Interview with Antoine Cuevas, director of Je vais là-bas aussi Where did you get the inspiration for Je vais là-bas aussi? The scenario was written for the 5×2 competition organized by GREC, France 2 Shorts and the cinematheque in Grenoble. You have to write a mini-series of five 2-minute episodes with the requirement that you use the same setting for all the episodes. […]

  Interview with Lars Vega, codirector of I Väntan På Döden [Awaiting Death] How did you come up with the story of this relationship? I was told a story from my friend Annica Zion that her grandparents were talking about Swedish meatballs when the grandmother was in hospital. I thought there was something funny about talking about something so unimportant in a place which is […]

  Interview with Alice Seabright, director of End-O The issue of endometriosis is finally getting some media attention. Is the medical world still behind? Hopefully the medical world is catching up. There are certainly good people doing good work, but it can’t hurt to remind them of the issue! What motivated you to treat it from a light-hearted, comical angle? I find humour to […]

  Interview with Fabio Liberti and Carl Olsson, codirectors of Don’t, Kiss .mov Why were you interested in picturing homosexual desire and do you have further projects on this theme? Our idea was not to picture homosexual desire, but to treat homosexuality as a matter of fact: homosexuality is represented, but it is not the theme of the movie as the movie could happen […]