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  Interview with Areej Abu Eid, director of A Very Hot Summer    Would it be fair to compare your film to a poem (structure, first-person narration etc.)? I think my story is more than that, it’s deep in its emotions, it’s the story of every Gazan who has lost their homes and loved ones in the war.  Why did you choose to show […]

  Interview with Jac Clinch, director of The Alan Dimension     Who or what is the inspiration for Alan? Are there any autobiographical elements in there? The idea for Alan came from my own experience of very intense deja vu. I would feel like I’d seen a moment in a preceding dream, but I found it funny that these pre-ordained moments were incredibly mundane, […]

  Interview with Annika Pinske, director of Homework  The relationship between father and daughter is very moving. Could you tell us about the casting process? The casting process was quite unusual, because I had my cast before I had the story. In fact, I wrote the script for Tim and Emma. Tim is my boyfriend so, as expected, I know him quite well. I […]

  Interview with Wei Hu, director of Ce qui nous éloigne (What Separates Us)    Why did you want to depict such a strong bond in your film? I let instinct and my own sensibilities play a large part in the choice of my topics. One thing that is special about cinema is the access it gives to the promiscuousness of being. That is […]

  Interview with Guillaume Orignac, director of Cinq nuits (Five Nights)   Why were you interested in the grieving period? It wasn’t grief so much that interested me, but the way all of daily life’s affairs are put on hold for people who are most affected by the loss of a loved one. The starting point of the film is fed by anxieties, large […]

  Interview with Elettra Pierantoni, scriptwriter of Semiliberi (Half Free)     What do you mean by Semiliberi? Would you say Alessandra is “half-free” after what she decides to do? Semiliberi is a play on words and it means that Alessandra will be half free, but the word “semi liberi” also stands for “free semen” so it’s a pun which refers to the prisoners’ […]

  Interview with Albéric Aurtenèche, director of Sigismond sans images (Sigismond without pictures)   Can you tell us about Sigismond’s insistence that he is Echo and not Narcissus? Thanks for this marvelous question which actually touches the essence of the film. With the development of the mobile phone over the past decade, the « digital revolution » gave us an absolute control on images, from their creation straight […]

  Interview with Alexandru Petru Badelita, director of I Made You, I Kill You  I Made You, I Kill You is about the disillusions and misunderstandings of a parent-child relationship. Why did you decide to tackle this failure? I firmly believe that a lot of how we are as human beings comes from the relationship with our parents or our mother/father figures if we […]

  Interview with Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun, director of Rase campagne   How did you choose the shooting location? The Monts d’Arrée are a very particular place known to everyone in Finistere. It’s a place that feels out of time. With its ochre colors and its ancient mountains with their distinctive rocks, it’s a place for hiking and escape. I have often gone roaming there. I […]

  Interview with Jonas Odell, director of Jag Var En Vinnare (I Was a Winner)    What interested you in the theme of game addiction? There were two starting points for the idea for the film. One was something I remembered from years back, when we used to have a Playstation game console set up in the place where I worked. People used to […]