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  An interview with Phillip Barker, director of Shadow Nettes.  Why did you choose to make a film about fishing and nets in particular? I like to fish. I often fish with my son. It’s nice to be in a boat, to talk with him about things. Together, we imagine the fish underwater. The underwater world is both alluring and frightening for me. There’s […]

  An interview with Moufida Fedhila, director of Aya  Where did you find the inspiration for Aya? Aya takes place in Tunisia, after the Revolution but also after the elections of October 2011. The Islamist regime came to power and took the majority in the Parliament. That introduced more and more radicalism into a Tunisian society that used to practice a moderate Islam. Salafi […]

  An interview with Gabriel Böhmer, director of Beetle Trouble  Making Beetle Trouble, how much were you interested in mental disorders neuroleptic and antipsychotic drugs? I was particularly interested in mental health and its relationship with greed. I tried to represent that idea with the main character, John, who finds himself speaking to entitled and unreasonable insects. Early in production, I decided that I had […]

  Interview with Sébastien Petretti, director of État d’alerte sa mère (State of Emergency Motherfucker)  Where did you get the idea to make a comedy about police checking people’s papers? Ever since I was a kid, I have always been shocked, angry, and disgusted by discrimination. That feeling increased with the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels. That’s how it all started.  How did […]

  An interview with Ben Steiner, director of Clanker Man What gave you the idea for the “clanker man”? The original idea came from Eli Silverman (co-writer and star) who had been kept awake one night by bangs and shouts from somewhere nearby and started to wonder if the people were making the noise for any other purpose than to annoy him. This experience […]

  An interview with Amanda Nell Eu, director of Lagi Senang Jaga Sekandang Lembu (It’s Easier to Raise Cattle) How did you get into the idea of making a film about these two teenagers? It all started because I wanted to make a film about a Pontianak (a female vampire who solely attacks men, famous in Malaysia and Indonesia). Where I come from, many […]

  An interview with Ayce Kartal, director of Kötü Kiz [Wicked Girl] How did you get the inspiration to make Kötü Kiz? As you know, child abuse is unfortunately happening all around the world. But in the last few years, it has dramatically increased in Turkey. After reading an article on the newspapers about a group of men who raped an eight-year-old girl, I decided […]

  An interview with Daphne Do, director of Wibble Wobble Can you tell us about the scriptwriting process and how the team got together? If it’s okay, I’m going to combine the answers to this question and the casting question in one! The two cast members, Alex Chilton and Edward Chalmers, and I are all close friends, and Wibble Wobble was a bit of […]

  An interview with Peter Edlund, director of Mixtape marauders  Can you tell us about your specific choice of songs?  Only four of the final songs were originally in the script but some of my favorite music in the film came from being turned down multiple times and really digging for alternate choices. This forced us to pin down the function and tone of […]

  An interview with Manue Fleytoux, director of Lâchez les chiens (Release the Hounds)  What do the dogs represent here? You’re free to interpret. For me, the dogs are the thin-skinned animal nature of the character Anouck, on the one hand, and on the other, at the end of the film you could say that the hounds have been released. Our characters run together […]