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  An interview with Sonja Rohleder, director of Quiet  How did you choose the music? And how did you work on Quiet’s rhythm? I have wanted to make an abstract film with music for a long time and was looking for a piece both simple and strong. Years ago, I already used a Nils Frahm piece of music on my graduation film and  luckily, he […]

  An interview with Matthieu Migneau, director of La route du sel  Can you tell us about the origins of La route du sel? I grew up in the country along the Loire river and I still live there. It’s a rather magical landscape, sometimes like an African river, sometimes a muddy bayou. As in many rural areas in France, poverty as well as […]

  An interview with Aleksey Lapin, director of 100 EUR  Why did you pick 100 EUR as the title of the film? I chose a simple and short title, something very essential, and 100 EUR is maybe the smallest unit which represents its bigger matter, the whole story. Money is somehow the glue which unites the different characters, it’s the common denominator and it’s also what […]

  An interview with Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau and Yannick Nolin, co-directors of Acadania  How did you work on the music for Acadiana? Our first challenge was to find a balance between what was really happening and the point of view we wanted to establish for it. As a backdrop, we used the material that was present at the shooting, in other words, the […]

  An interview with Thomas Noakes, director of Nursery Rhymes  Why were you interested in heightening tension further and further? Myself and the writer Will Goodfellow were more interested in subverting the audience’s expectations than heightening the tension. It was about creating a landscape of withheld information that implicated the audience. You can’t help but project assumptions onto the unknowns – the diving question of […]

  Interview with Mathieu Mégemont, director of Diversion  What does the title Diversion mean? It’s a reference to Pierre Bourdieu’s famous dictum, “Le fait divers fait diversion” [“human interest stories are a diversion”]. The film takes an ironic perspective on the statement, because the story itself is a diversion, a ridiculous smoke screen that dresses up the reality of events. Human interest stories are a […]

  Interview with Bruno Tondeur, director of Sous le cartilage des côtes [Under the Rib Cage] What made you want to make a film about hypochondria? One day, I was diagnosed with an advanced stage of hepatitis C. I was young, I was immortal, and then all of a sudden, BOOM, the bad news. I met a psychologist, I wrote letters to all my […]

  An interview with Margaux Elouagari, director of La Ducasse  We sense that behind the story of teenagers flirting, what’s at stake in your film is the opportunity to question certain stereotypes and to provoke a discussion. What audience would you like to reach with your short film? I do not have any particular audience in mind that I’d like to reach more than another. […]

  An interview with Matthias Jenny, director of Matador  Can you tell us about the origins of Matador? Matador stems from the intersection of two desires. On the one hand, the desire to speak about people who don’t feel represented or listened to in society. Forgotten by everyone, left on their own, they are on the verge of tipping, of no longer respecting laws that […]

  An interview with Foued Mansour, director of Le chant d’Ahmed   Why were you interested in the relationship between a man reaching retirement age and a young man? I wanted to talk about themes of handing something down, lack of affection, an encounter that promises, for a time, a certain happiness. It’s about a slice of life, a moment in the existence of two […]