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  An interview with Elizabeth Hobbs, director of I’m OK What interests you in Oskar Kokoschka’s works and life? Oskar Kokoschka’s work is magnificent; his painting, his engravings, his plays, and his writings were a great inspiration for me but what fascinated me above all was the period when he was having a love affair with Alma Mahler (1912 – 1915). When this relationship […]

  An interview with Léopold Legrand, director of Mort aux codes [To Hell with Codes]  How did you learn about Patrick Pelloux’ book? Does it describe the absurdity of the situation precisely as the emergency crew tells it or did you take some liberties to adapt it to the screen? In 2016 Frederic Brillon, producer at Epithète Films, advised me to read Toujours là, toujours […]

  An interview with Bogdan Muresanu, director of Cadoul de Craciun  What motivated you to set the film at that time? Did you have direct experience of the Ceausescu period in Romania? I have always been interested in this period perhaps because I grew up in Communism so that I could experience on my skin the benefits of this Brave New World. Also my […]

  Interview with Agathe Riedinger, director of Ève  Why did you decide to use digital off-camera voices? Ève and Lili are alpha females. Two women who’ve shaped their ideal of beauty, who’ve taken control of a divine power in order to become physically perfect. I’m fascinated by the women and men who physically recreate their beauty, who subject their bodies to rigorous overhaul in […]

  An interview with Delphine Deloget, director of Tigre  Why did you want to place your characters in this age group? I wanted to film young women at an age where one has major choices in life to make, an age where one can no longer hide behind one’s parents but where one is not yet totally equipped for life. I didn’t want them […]

  An interview with Meryam Joobeur, director of Brotherhood  Why were you interested in a father-son relationship and do you have further projects on this subject? To answer this question I have to contextualize the more political and social aspects of Brotherhood, which is the rise of ISIS. I feel that the emergence and dominance of ISIS is a product of toxic masculinity. The […]

  An interview with Gabriel Böhmer, director of The Flood Is Coming  Why were you interested in the relationship between Man and Nature? Because the conversation around ecology is not going well. We currently have a small window to decide on the direction of that relationship. So, it’s on my mind.  What is your interest in absurd plots and abstract painting? I like the […]

  Interview with Raphaële Bezin, director of L’espace commun [Common Space]   How many films did you watch in order to get the sequences you used in L’espace commun? I must have seen about 120, but I only used 28 in the end.  What interested you about the principle of composition for the images? I initially wanted the different visions of Rome to face off. Each […]

  Interview with Bertrand Dezoteux, director of Harmonie [Harmony]  What interests you about space exploration? Why did you want to open your film with the desire to explore an unknown planet? All of the my projects have an element of science fiction. That element is probably more evident in this film since it has a direct link to space, but for me, science fiction […]

  Interview with Pang-Chuan Huang, director of Last Year When the Train Passed By  In what country and what regions did you shoot? I shot this film in my native Taiwan, in the south and the west, where there are lots of fields and beautiful countryside. I took still photographs at the time I was completing post-production for my previous film, Retour, in 2017 […]