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  Interview with Simon Gionet, director of Cayenne What did you want to explore in the relation between the man and the young women? My intention was to explore the sense of apprehension that a woman can experience in her everyday life. The anxious feeling of being followed, the fear to be approached insistently and the possibility of a threat are ever-present. Whether it […]

  Interview with Asaph Luccas, director of Bonde Bonde tells the story of three young black friends who go out seeking for refuge in downtown LGBT+ night scene. How did you go about creating the three main characters? Bonde was wrote by 8 people. We are all LGBTQIA+ individuals who lived most of our lives in São Paulo’s periphery, 6 of us are black. […]

  Interview with Jean-Claude Rozec, director of Têtard [Tadpole] What physical or digital media did you paint on for Tadpole? I designed the film’s visual world on paper, painting with watercolors. Subsequently, I looked for ways of re-transcribing that aesthetic with animation programs, which took up a bit of time before I found something satisfactory. I used TVPaint for all of the animation and […]

  Interview with Samir Karahoda, director of Në Mes [In Between] Where does the film take place and why have so many people left? The film takes place mainly in rural areas throughout Kosovo. Actually, this represents today’s image of the Balkans in general, where the villages are turning into ghost places. And it is not only the people of our country that have left, […]

  Interview with Alexandre Dostie, director of Je finirai en prison [I’ll End Up in Jail] How did the idea for Je finirai en prison come about? The song Je finirai en prison, by the famous Quebec cowboy André Guitar, put me on the track of this film and in the end, gave it his title. Normally, Quebec country music is rather cheerful and banal […]

  Interview with Eduardo Carretié, director of Anna Vernor II Tells us a little bit about how your film, Anna Vernor II, came to be. Margaux Lorier, the producer (Envie de Tempête Productions), had gotten in touch with me in 2016 after she saw my first film, La fille du bunker [The Girl from the Bunker]. She asked me if I was working on any […]

  Interview with Azadeh Moussavi, director of The Visit The film is based on a true story. How did you come across it? This story comes from my own life. When I was a child, my father got arrested for political reasons. My father was a journalist and the government was arresting some political activists in 1981 – my father was one of them. […]

  Interview with Konstantina Kotzamani, director of Electric Swan Can you tell us a bit about the filming process? What inspired you to tell this story? Well, the idea of Electric Swan started quite magically! I first moved to Buenos Aires in 2016. During my very first day in Buenos Aires, I had a long walk at the park where this film’s tropical swan lake lays. While I was […]

  Interview with Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi, codirectors of Il Muro Bianco [The White Wall] How did you come across this story? A few years ago, we read about this school in Italy where students were forced to stay away from the walls because they were made of asbestos, a carcinogenic material that is particularly dangerous when it starts to deteriorate. As we researched […]

   Interview with Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas, director of Genève [Geneva] Where did your inspiration for Genève come from? Oliver (the producer) and I were in a situation similar to that of the main character in Geneva. It’s a strange feeling to be the caregiver.  I wanted a way to convey this feeling without expressing it outright. One day I was at the movies with […]