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  An interview with Julio O. Ramos, director of Desecho  How much were you interested in the question of illegal workers? Do you have further projects on this theme? As an immigrant living in the US, I’m always intrigued by immigrant tales. Illegal immigration is one of them, but more accurately, this film depicts labor trafficking. The workers in the film, with the exception of […]

  Interview with Maxime Roy, director of Beautiful Loser  The film is about a recovering drug addict, Michel, about his fight to break free of the hold drugs have on him, and on his relationship to fatherhood. Was it your ambition to explore the question of marginality in the film, to focus on a world that is seldom seen on the screen? For three […]

  An interview with Aqsa Altaf, director of One Small Step  What inspired you to tell this story? The main theme of the story is about making difficult choices – choices that can’t necessarily be categorized as good or bad. Travis did a great job of making that evident in every scene. The emotion and humanity of it resonated with me – I was […]

  An interview with Benjamin Cleary, co-director of Wave  Can you tell us more about the context in which Wave was made. You’ve described it a side-project… My first film Stutterer was just starting to do the festival run so I was dying to make something else. TJ wanted to try acting in something. So we decided to make something on a weekend for […]

  An interview with Ed Flynn, director of Jeri’s Grill  Can you tell us more about working with a theatre company on this film? What motivated you to create an “ensemble” film? I started to think about Jeri’s Grill after a period spent watching as many Robert Altman films as I could get my hands on. I found myself falling in love with so […]

  An interview with Jules Comes, director of Saint Hubert  How did you work on image and light ? Saint Hubert was meant to be a cinematographic experience from the first beginning. I’ve tried to create a world, an environment with aesthetic locations in nature and the right conditions of light. We’ve tried to use the camera in a kind of classical cinematic way, […]

  An interview with Juan Sebastián Mesa, director of Tierra Mojada  Where did you set Tierra Mojada ? What cameras did you use? We shot the film in the Cauca river canyon, located in Antioquia, in Colombia. To shoot the film, we used an Arri Alexa mini.  How did you get the inspiration for this film? Do you personally know people who have suffered […]

  An interview with Omid Shams, director of Shab e Tavalod  How did you get the inspiration for Shab e Tavalod? Imagination is the source of all ideas. Imagining, we will be able to see things that are not real, we will be able to see things the way we like. Imagination is a very important part of our mind that can come from […]

  An interview with Jean Marc E. Roy and Philippe David Gagné, directors of Crème de Menthe  Why did you choose to represent the father as a hoarder? This happened to a friend whose father passed away, and who had to deal with the same “journey” as our main character. We liked the dramatic and aesthetic possibilities provided by this premise.  What did you […]

  An interview with Roland Edzard, director of West front  How did this subject come to you? I didn’t truly choose this subject. It was more my life path that made me question the rapport that the West has with Islam. I lived in Algeria until the age of 8, in Tamanrasset, in the great Saharan south. The people of the desert maintained an […]