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  An interview with Sarah Arnold, director of Parades (Fabula Rasa)  How did you come up with the idea of the encounter and the kidnapping in Parades? I wanted an encounter between order and disorder, a confrontation between the law and disobedience. Lionel’s kidnapping and the blow to the head, that is anarchy knocking the law out.  How did you construct these two characters? […]

  An interview with Seo-Ro Oh, director of (OO)  How did you find your inspiration for (OO)? I have been suffering from rhinitis since I was a child, and I wanted to visualize the feeling of sneezing, runny nose, nasal congestion caused by it.  How did you work on the drawings ? Do you draw digitally or manually? It is all digital and animations […]

  An interview with Laura Haby, director of My eyes are gone  How did you come up with the idea for My eyes are gone? The inspiration for the film comes from meeting a peculiar person with a very specific way of talking about death. It’s the end of a process started in 2013 with En apnée [Holding Your Breath], a short documentary where […]

  An interview with Jean-Charles Paugam, director of Nuit debout (Up All Night)  What was your inspiration for the character Franck? Did you know someone who had lived through a similar situation? For the character Franck, I was greatly inspired by my main actor, Pierre Lottin: his energy, his build, his diction, and so on. I don’t think Franck is living through a particular […]

  An interview with Christos Massalas, director of Copa-Loca  An obvious question to start with: is the resort real? If not, what was the inspiration for Copa-Loca? Can you tell us about the filming location? Copa-Loca is a fictional resort; it is a synthesis of different locations that I found around Athens. It all began when I discovered an abandoned water park, close to […]

  An interview with Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi, director of Lower Heaven    How did you come up with the idea for Lower Heaven? I was making another film when a photographer friend of mine showed me a photo of Mirollah (the brother who makes statuettes) and I wanted to meet him. A little later, I bumped into Zarif on the street and that was when […]

  An interview with Frédéric Hainaut, director of Le Marcheur  How many types of drawings did you use in all? How much did you do on paper? The lines were drawn on a Cintiq-style graphics tablet and the color was done on typing paper with brush, écoline, felt-tipped pen and pencil. I wanted to use ordinary paper, nothing fancy, something that we’d use to […]

  An interview with Florent Gouëlou, director of Un homme mon fils (A Man My Son)  Who was the inspiration for the character of the father, the projectionist ? What motivated you to explore this father-son relationship? During my second year at la Fémis, I made a documentary about my mother and her connection to the Algerian War. Two years later, for my final project, I […]

  An interview with Antonin Peretjatko, director of Panique au Sénat (Panic in the Senate)    Why do we have to watch Panique au Sénat through adult eyes, as we are requested to do at the beginning of the film? It’s a response to the expression that says we have to know how to remain a child. But nothing is crueler than recess, which is […]

  An interview with Marc Torices, director of Knock Strike  Which techniques did you use in the animation? We used traditional animation with Photoshop as a tool. We used pencils and other objects to make the first drafts, but always finishing on the computer with Photoshop for the graphic part.  How did you work on the different styles of drawings? Several illustrators worked on […]