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  An interview with Aliaksei Paluyan, director of Lake of Happiness  Is the character of Jasja based on a real girl? The character of Jasja is based on the story of my father. He was 7 years old when his mother died and my grandfather decided to send him to an orphanage. This traumatic experience in his childhood has always been a taboo topic […]

  Interview with Boris Labbé, director of La Chute [The Fall]  What enticed you to draw and animate La Chute, to start with a harmonious world and then to drag it in a descent towards hell? The project for La Chute was born from the desire to “mirror” my preceding short film Rhizome produced in 2015. Created using a similar animation technique, Rhizome auto-generated an organic system […]

  Interview with Anna Paula Hönig and Violeta Paus, co-directors of City Plaza Hotel  What part does realism play in City Plaza Hotel? The idea for the film was born from a concern for the present-day world and the reality that we all face. We opted for a documentary style for the majority of the film and we used fiction as a cinematographic narration […]

  An interview with Thanasis Neofotistos, director of Leoforos Patision (Patision Avenue)  Can you tell us, for those of us who don’t know, what happened on Patision Avenue? Why did you want to set the short there? The story of Katerina, Yanni’s mother, takes place on Patision Avenue. A young, aspiring actress is on her way to a very important audition, when she learns […]

  Interview with Paul-Louis Léger and Pascal Messaoudi, co-directors of Malanka  How did you learn about the Malanka celebration? Our initial idea was sparked by the photographs that the Austrian missionary Martin Gusinde took of the tribes of Tierra del Fuego in the 1920s: how man, when he dedicates himself to rituals, becomes even stranger than an extra-terrestrial. We also consulted Charles Fréger’s book […]

  An interview with Magdalena Jaroszewicz, director of Shooting Stars  What was your interest in picturing firecrackers festivities? Back in 2017 I was living on the most lively street in Berlin and I heard legends about how loud and crazy this street gets on New Year’s Eve. So I wanted to document this night of madness and freedom, understand its symbolic meaning for the […]

  An interview with Greg McLeod, codirector of Marfa  What or where is Marfa and does Marfa FM really exist? Marfa is situated in the high desert of the Trans-Pecos in far Texas, between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park. The town was founded in the early 1880s as a railroad water stop. Yes Marfa FM does exist: http://marfapublicradio.org  Why were you interested […]

  Interview with Tiphaine Raffier, director of La chanson [The Song]  What is your connection with Marne-la-Vallée? I grew up in Val d’Europe. This town is built more with signs than with bricks. There are people living in this copy town, it is them I’m interested in. How do you grow up in a town of lies? A town where the first injunction would […]

  An interview with Dawid Ullgren, director of Nittonhundraåttioett (1981)  Why 1981? What is the significance of that year? The year 1981 is an interesting period of time here in Sweden for the gay community. It was a kind of in-between time when everything started to seem a little bit brighter. In 1979, the National Board of Health and Welfare declassified homosexuality as a […]

  Interview with Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, co-directors of Chien bleu [Blue Dog]  Did you choose the color blue in relation to the Hindu pantheon, or did it come later during the writing of the script? The color blue was there from the very beginning. It’s a color we love, a color that reminds us of our travels and that evokes in us […]