competition

  Interview with Romain André, director of A priori sauvage  How did you come up with the idea of a film dealing with the subject of solitude in the big cities? I didn’t start out intending to make a film about solitude. In the beginning, I was more focused on the question of insomnia: the way work troubles our sleep, and sleep our work. […]

  An interview with Jessica Candal, director of Ainda Ontem  Why were you interested in the transition from adolescence to adulthood and do you plan further projects dealing with this period of time? I am interested in this period from adolescence to adulthood because it’s a time full of possibilities, but everything is yet to be determined. It’s an age when many paths seem […]

  Interview de Stefan Kruse, réalisateur de The Migrating Image  How long did you search for informations and images? How easy was it to find them? Which were the most complicated to collect? I spend around three month gathering all the material for the film. In the beginning I scoured the internet for all kinds of material relating to migration in Europe. This resulted […]

  Interview with Camille Polet, director of Moi votre ami [What, I, Your Friend?]  How did you come up with the idea of this middle-aged man wanting to become an actor? Above all, it’s because that middle-aged man is my father! And what I was interested in filming was a real event that had already happened, to rewrite it and to stage it as […]

  An interview with Luis Cifuentes, director of En Busca de un Tierno Silencio  Do you have a personal experience of the Pinochet period in Chile and its consequences? Yes. My family has been persecuted since the 11 September 1973 strike. I was born in 1977, into a family kicked by dictatorship. My father was part of a theatre company called ALEPH, some of […]

  An interview with Laura Carreira, director of Red Hill  Can you tell us a bit more about Red Hill (as a place)? The title ‘Red Hill’ comes from the location Jim patrols as a night security guard. Part of the film takes place in a slag heap of a former mine, now used as a site to extract aggregate of what is left […]

  Interview with Benoît Rambourg, director of Nus dans les rues la nuit [Naked At Night In the Streets]  Why did you choose to film in black and white? It was instinctive. I’ve always viewed the film that way. From the beginning. It’s a choice that requires you to produce an explanation for the financing commissions. This is what I came up with: “I want […]

  An interview with Hristo Simeonov, director of Gorata na Dimo [Dimo’s Forest]  Why did you want to make a film in the forest environment? I grew up in a small village in a region just like the one in the film. And 3 years ago, I found out that the forest in my village was destroyed by a private concessionaire.  This man remained unpunished […]

  An interview with Erica Scoggins, director of The Boogeywoman  Why were you interested in picturing a teenage girl at her first period? It’s a time of incredible tension. There can be fear, dread, and shame, but also pride and growth. Often, it’s all mixed up together. It’s an undeniable physical change heaped in centuries of mythology and propaganda. A girl becomes a woman, […]

  Interview with Frédéric Doazan, director of Hurlevent  In Hurlevent, the signs, numbers and letters of a book, carried away by the wind, assemble themselves to take the shapes of various figures. Is this a way to evoke the power of language or of poetry? I saw it more as if language had come to life. A breath that animates and causes a chain […]