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  Interview with Alexsander Baghdasaryan, director of Nor Tarva Goji [Christmas Roast] Firstly, could you explain the reference to a Christmas roast? We’ve made the translation more comprehensible for English speaking countries and this is how we had the Christmas Roast. In Armenian reality it is a suckling pig, which is served on a large dish without cutting. But it is also one of […]

  Interview with Jérémie Cousin, director of À l’Ouest [Westward] What inspired you to make a short film about father-child relations, divorce and life’s trials? I wanted to make a film on the lack of communication in a family and the problems that can lead to. My parents are divorced and everyone is doing fine nowadays but I think we’ve all suffered from a […]

  Interview with Vincent Fontano, director of Blaké [Tar] How did you come up with the idea to make a film about two guards reinventing the world in the basement of an underground parking lot? This film was born from my personal experience as a night watchman on Reunion Island during my college years. Unlike the two security guards in the movie, I was […]

  Interview with Ross McClean, director of Hydebank How did you come across Ryan and what made you want to tell his story? My first experience inside Hydebank was Christmas a few years ago to play a football match (we were defeated 22 – 3 by the prisoners). My interest was piqued by a small flock of sheep grazing alongside the pitch; all framed […]

  Interview with Noël Fuzellier, director of Mars Colony Where did you get the inspiration for Logan’s character? During a training course that I gave a few years ago, I met a very distracted, very noisy teenager, who was sometimes funny and often aggressive. He wouldn’t listen to anyone and seemed only to be there to disrupt the class. He had an incredible violence […]

  Interview with William Laboury, director of Yandere Why did you want to use an artificial human companion rather than an ex-girlfriend who controls Siri, Cortana or Alexa from afar? I’ve been interested in the idea of artificial human companions ever since I saw an ad for this type of holographic girlfriend in Japan. You immediately wonder what she thinks about while she’s waiting […]

  Interview with Alma Buddecke and Marleen Valien, codirectors of Hot Dog How did you go about creating Hot Dog? Can you talk us through the filming processes a little? We just didn’t know any film where someone talked about vaginas. Although there are really interesting stories surrounding it actually. So we wanted to create a contemporary version of The Vagina Monologues by Eve […]

  Interview with Marion Lacourt, director of Moutons, loup et tasse de thé [Sheep, Wolf and a Cup of Tea] The film is dedicated to your grandmother. Can you tell us more about the connection? The origin of the project is the image of my grandmother with bags of camomille tea on her eyes. That was one of the first pre-bedtime rituals I witnessed […]

  Interview with Cris Lyra, director of Quebramar Could you tell us a bit more about the title? A “quebramar” or breakwater is a wall of rock built to resist the strength of waves or currents that seek to wash over a piece of land. In our conversations about being a lesbian body in the patriarchy and about not performing standard femininity, we identify […]

  Interview with Noé Debré, director of Une fille moderne [A Progressive Girl] What was your inspiration for Une fille moderne? The film’s inspiration was a story by Raphaël Hayoun, a friend, who like the main character, is studying in a Yeshiva school in Israel. Raphaël recounts his experience of arranged dates, shiddouh, which are supposed to allow young people from the Jewish religious […]