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  An interview with Nathalie Saugeon, director of Roberto le canari  Can you tell us about the origins of Roberto le canari? The day my son’s canary died, he was devastated. I felt a huge gap between his sorrow –true mourning – and my pragmatism: what should we do with this canary? Should we burry him? It was both funny and upsetting and that […]

  Interview with Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier, co-directors of Automne malade [Autumn Ill]  The film deals with, among other things, a student’s crisis of identity. Up to now, she has been defined, not to say devoured, by her social class and the demands of her family. How did you approach that aspect of the film, in terms of staging? Lola: Milène’s character is at […]

  An interview with Manuela Gray, director of The Number  What was the appeal in the subject matter? What alerted you to the “Number gangs”? The Number gangs and their markings are at the intersection of two aspects of my life and work… As an artist, I have long found fascination in the “brutality”, power and fear that their marks engender. I am also a […]

  Interview with Marion Desseigne Ravel, director of Fatiya  A film like Fatiya allows the viewer to witness the realities faced by young veiled women who are victims of prejudice. It is a reality that is not often seen in film, even today. Is there a particular audience that you wanted to reach through this film? I would like to reach everyone with this film, […]

Interview with Mohammad Houhou, director of The Ostrich Politic  How did you work on the rhyme scheme? After creating the concept of the film, I wrote down 2 lines of what the story would be. Then as I began writing the script I felt a narration would serve the story well. Poetry began to flow, I felt that it strengthened the comedic and […]

Interview with Louis Hans-Moëvi, director of Intercontinental  Is the film set in a “real” Intercontinental hotel? What gave you the idea to set it there? No, it belongs to a different hotel chain. Even though I have always lived next to the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva, I shot the film at the Mirador Resort & Spa, a prestigious establishment perched in the heights […]

  Interview with June Balthazard, director of Le baiser du silure [The Kiss of the Catfish]  How do you happen to know about this type of fish, the silurid? Is the actor who plays the main character a fisherman in real life? I learned of the existence of this fish when I was shooting an previous film in the countryside of the Haut-Saôn department where […]

  An interview with Shih Han Tsao, director of A Dream of Spring  Why were you interested in the situation of these old Chinese veterans stuck in Taiwan? I grew up and fulfilled mandatory military service both in Kaohsiung Zuoying. Zuoying is the largest naval base in Taiwan, so there are a lot of veterans who live around there. Because of political and historical […]

  Interview with Martina Scarpelli, director of Egg  Egg is interested in the mechanisms of anorexia, its rituals, in the isolation and obsessions it generates. Do you consider that the success of the film can be accounted for, apart from its technical qualities, by the fact that it deals with a difficult subject, which remains mainly unknown to most people? Probably yes, but mostly the way the […]

  An interview with Veljko Popovic, director of Biciklisti  Can you tell us about cycling season? I’m assuming it’s a real event! The spirit of the local people in my hometown is entangled with sports. It can be football, it can be basketball, water polo or cycling. It does not matter, what matters is the iconic position of the sportsman as the alpha male in the […]