competition

  Interview with Sarah Al Atassi, director of Prends mon poing (Fist)  What inspired you to create Bilal, the main character? Prends mon poing is my first movie to be produced, so I chose to address a subject that I am committed to as an artist: marginalization, body language, prejudice… To do this, I wanted to explore the concept of the antihero and the […]

Discover the interview with the Italian codirectors Gilles Cuvelier about their short film (Fool Time) Job, selected in the National competition (F12 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École.

  An interview with Hannes Vartiainen, co-director of Puheenvuoro  Why did you want to shoot a City Council session? We didn’t actually shoot it. We ripped it from YouTube – the city council of Tampere streams all of its sessions. We were doing research for another film and we stumbled upon this discussion. It didn’t fit the other project, but we felt there was something […]

Discover the interview with the Italian codirectors Clarisse Hahn about their short film Mescaline, selected in the National competition (F3 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École.

  Interview with Pedro Collantes, director of Ato San Nen  How did you come up with the idea for Ato San Nen? The starting idea came from a real anecdote that once happened to me in Japan. I was trying to communicate with the staff at a train station without much success because I couldn’t speak any Japanese at the time. A man who […]

Discover the interview with the Italian codirectors Jules Follet about his short film Waterfountain, selected in the National competition ( F10 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École.

  An interview with Felipe Elgueta and Ananké Pereira, directors of Snap   Why did you set your film on Snapchat and its “stories”? We started working with Snap for two reasons. The first one is that when we discovered the application, we became obsessed with all the material people uploaded and without being very sure about what we could do with it, we felt the need […]

  An interview with Ilay Mevorach, director of Open Your Eyes  How did you get the inspiration for this woman’s hospital visit? During the stabbing intifada, 2015, I accompanied my grandmother to the eye clinic in Jerusalem, to receive the treatment described in the film, a shot in the eye that prevents blindness. It was a crowded morning, as every morning in the eye […]

  An interview with Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter, directors of Negative Space  What techniques did you use to make this short film? Stop motion with puppets. We felt strongly that the tone of the original text demanded a direct, distinctly human process. Being that the film is about a relationship through a physical process – packing a suitcase – we knew that we wanted […]

Discover the interview with the Italian codirectors Andrea Brusa & Marco Scotuzzi about their short film Magic Alps, selected in the International competition (I6 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École.