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  An interview with Vladimir Kott, director of Mama   Is there a particular reason you chose to set the film in the middle of the Baltic Sea? The sea for me is a symbol of freedom. Because it’s infinite and whatever direction you look at, you see only the horizon. The Baltic Sea is very specific because a lot of different countries are located […]

  An interview with Vladimir Leschiov, director of Elektrika Diena  Why did you choose a power cut to kick off the series of events? It is how I feel about the times we are currently living in. There is nervousness, instability, and fragility of relationships between people in the modern world. Light is one of the main conditions for human beings to be safe […]

  An interview with Soheil Amirsharifi, director of Gosal [Fault Line]  Can you explain the title of Gosal [Fault Line]? As you know “Fault line” is a fracture in the ground which causes an earthquake. The story of the film happens during a rehearsal which is designed to prepare the students for proper reaction when an earthquake happens. I find this a good title for […]

  An interview with Tan Wei Ting, director of CA$H  Why were you interested in picturing cashiers struggling with being fired? Do you have further projects on this subject? CA$H is actually part of a short film series Temasek 20/20, which prompted aspiring young filmmakers in Singapore to imagine what the future holds for us beyond the year 2020. I remember researching particularly into the […]

  An interview with Tatevik Vardanyan, director of District 16, 16 Floors, 16 People  What gave you the idea to focus on this particular district in Yerevan? My country is small and accordingly all the cities, including the capital Yerevan, are small. The advantage of living in a small city is that you get to know it very well. If you ask me, I […]

  An interview with Tuna Kaptan, director of Are you Listening, Mother?  How much were you interested in the situation of Kurdish people living in Turkey before beginning your work on this film? Since it’s been a big socio-political issue during the last decades I was always interested in the situation.  Why did you want to show a mother-son relationship? I wanted to tell […]

  An interview with Vincent Lambe, director of Detainment  How did you learn about the James Bulger case’s children transcripts? I was 12 when it happened and I grew up hearing about the case. I could never understand how these two ten-year-old boys could commit such a horrific crime. A lot of people will say they were simply “evil”. I think it’s easier to […]

  An interview with Paulina Ziółkowska, director of Na Zdrowie!  Why were you interested in germs and their spread? I get the flu quite often. And when you are lying in bed, sick and bored, you have a lot of time to think about stuff. And I made a film.  How much have you been inspired by symbiosis, duplication, cell division? Not so much. […]

  An interview with Thomas Buisson, director of Claude libre  >Where did you get the idea for the character Claude? I got the idea for this character after hearing about a news item that took place in the south of France in 2012. A 70-year old man held up a horse race betting bar in his town and then fled on a bicycle. Everyone […]

  Interview with Zoran Boukherma and Anaïs Tellenne, co-directors of Le mal bleu [The Blue Problem]  How did you come up with the idea of setting the action in a pigeon hideout? From the beginning we knew we wanted to make a film about lack of self-confidence and the fear of losing control that it entails. When we started thinking about where we could place our […]