competition

  Interview with Anthony Nti, director of Da Yie [Good Night] Why did you choose this title? “Da Yie”, which is Twi for “good night”, carries a double meaning in our film. First, it’s a universal way of saying goodbye before bedtime. These are the last words exchanged between the main characters, who despite going through a life-changing journey, which could’ve ended badly, wish […]

  An interview with Anne Brouillet, director of Champ de bosses [Bumpy Field] What interested you in setting your film in a rural environment? The place where the film takes place wasn’t chosen because it’s rural but simply because of my own past: it’s the village I where spent vacation when I was young. It’s surrounded by forests which I credited with all sorts of […]

  Interview with Farah Nabulsi, director of The Present Can you tell us a bit about your background as a filmmaker? Actually, I don’t have a background in filmmaking! After a life-changing trip to the Occupied Palestinian Territories around five years ago, I started to write privately and therapeutically on what I had seen, felt and begun to imagine as I naturally found myself […]

  Interview with Marie Le Floc’h, director of Je serai parmi les amandiers [Among the Almond Trees] Where did you get the idea for this story? Had you met Syrians in the same situation? The question of exile in the family is something that resounds strongly with me, and that I had explored in a previous short film. I can’t really explain why, but […]

  Interview with Jorge Cantos, director of Günst ul vándrafoo [Gusts of Wild Life] Why were you interested in picturing the main character in such a mysterious way? The way we pictured the main character has a lot to do with adolescence itself. To me it is the most mysterious time in life; full of boundaries and unsolved questions. Teenagers always appear to me […]

  Interview with Shasha Huang, director of The Water Will Carry Us The film’s pace is rather peaceful and slow, making The Water Will Carry Us into a sort of a meditative film. Is this effect what you wanted to achieve? Yes. My original intention was to express the story and the reflection in a poetic way, similar to the meditative quality of the “water”, […]

  Interview with Anastasia Borisova, director of Mama What was the appeal in the subject matter? This is my course film. We had a documentary block at the Moscow Film School and were taught veracity in fiction films. I was interested in migrants, nonresidents who live in Moscow, probably because I myself moved to Moscow from Yakutia. I also wanted Galina Tikhonova to play […]

  Interview with Cheyenne Canaud-Wallays, director of Tout va rentrer dans le désordre [Everything’ll Go Back to Disorder] Where did you get the idea for this film and what interested you about disorder? I worked in a market for years while I was studying. Disorder is a part of a market, which is a very rich place that offers a wide range of situations […]

  Interview with Alberto Flores Vilca, director of Mamapara I notice you share a name with Honorata Vilca. Can you tell us more about your relation to her? Mrs. Honorata Vilca is my mother. Since I was 4 years old, I grew up away from her, so I needed to get to know her better, to get closer, to shorten that distance. Although I […]

  Interview with Assia Piqueras and Thibault Verneret, co-directors of Car les hommes passent [For Men Come and Go] How did you find out about the situation in Gardanne? It was in April 2018, a day with a very strong easterly wind. There was this photograph in the paper. An apocalyptic sky, saturated with red dust. The story is already old, it began over […]