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  Interview with Claire van Beek, director of Daniel What did you seek to explore through Joan’s experience? I explore the power of desire; the importance of touch, and the complexity of female sexuality. I wanted to get inside the psyche of a young woman confronted with the force of sexual desire. Joan suddenly finds that her solace and routine is ripped apart and replaced with […]

  Interview with Matthieu Vigneau, director of Fin de saison Why were you interested in the camping environment? The world of camping world didn’t really interest me. I was looking to create a restricted yet accessible place, a confined space. A campground enables the main character to work and live in the same place. A small area where people live close to each other […]

  Interview with Chintis Lundgren, director of Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves What inspired you to tell the story of the wolf Toomas, a former engineer who has become a gigolo? My previous film, Manivald, was very slow-paced and quiet. I wanted to do something wilder and crazier for my next project, something in the vein of Russ Meyer’s sexploitation movies. Also, […]

  Interview with Sébastien Betbeder, director of Jusqu’à l’os [To the Bone] Why did want to tackle the topic of angst and the questioning it can lead to? I don’t think angst is actually a particular “topic” in the film. It’s a question of the intermittent state that my characters find themselves in; they’re are simply living through the inconveniences of the times. In […]

Interview with Eva Saiz, director of Mujer Sin Hijo [Woman Without a Child] How did you go about creating Mujer Sin Hijo? Can you talk us through the filming processes a little? I think the hardest part of the process was seeing myself as a director. I’m a screenwriter, Mujer Sin Hijo is the only project I’ve directed. I wrote the script when I […]

  Interview with Paul Nouhet, director of Les méduses de Gouville [The Jellyfish of Gouville] Tell us a little bit about how Les méduses de Gouville came to be. At the very beginning, I met with Tristan Vaslot, the film’s producer. We’d met in our first year of film school at La Fémis and we immediately got along. Tristan brought me for a weekend out […]

  Interview with David Pérez Sañudo, director of Un coche cualquiera What inspired you to tell this story? We reflected about the concept of our story a few years ago: a guy who cannot get into his car. We considered that we had a lot of possibilities from this premise. On the other hand, we have always considered that Un coche cualquiera as an exercise about film empathy. […]

  Interview with Randa Maroufi, director of Bab Sebta The film is dedicated to your father. Could you tell us a bit more about what he did? My father was a customs inspector until the end of the 90s. He worked mainly in the Laâyoune, Casablanca and Marrakech airports. Many members on my mother’s side of the family are from the north and work […]

  Interview with Ivana Bosnjak and Thomas Johnson, co-directors of Udahnut zivot [Imbued Life] What inspired you to tell this story? What is your interest in taxidermy? We were inspired to create this film after having a taxidermy animal sitting on our shelf in our apartment in Zagreb. The pine marten was preserved in a moment; a still life staring down at us, as […]

  Interview with Hugo Pepper Guevara, director of Darikiken What did you want to explore with this child’s journey through the forest? Who or what inspired you to tell his story? My idea about a child in the jungle was to show the great connection and coexistence between the natives and the Amazon, a balance that is a delicate and thin line which is […]