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  Interview with Maxime Bruneel, director of Olga    What interested you about the opening sequence in the bathtub? Were you deliberately trying to create a misunderstanding? Indeed, deliberate misunderstanding was intended. It was important for me to open the film with a kind of prologue detached from the rest of the story. This way, the ambiguous relationship could be depicted without immediately showing […]

  Interview with Lola Roqueplo, director of Oh Oh Chéri    Why did you choose this nod to Françoise Hardy? At first, I entitled the film after a song by Françoise Hardy for quite a silly reason, because I was attracted to the physical sound of the words. Later, when I thought about the song, I envisioned the story of a girl who’s in […]

  Interview with Ronny Trocker, director of Estate [Summer]    Why did you want to make a film about illegal immigrants? That’s certainly a complex question, but to begin with, I don’t like the word “illegal”. Most people who cross the sea do so out of necessity. Our laws are what push them towards “illegality”. The refusal by European states to grant safer paths […]

  Interview with Gabriel Harel, director of Yúl et le serpent (Yúl and the Snake) Where did the idea for Yúl and the Snake come from? Yul and the Snake was inspired by my childhood growing up in the Southern Alps region. The story is not directly based on something I experienced. It’s more of an atmosphere: youth pretending to be criminals, drugs, pitbulls, techno music, and […]

  Interview with Yianni Warnock, director of Homebodies Homebodies is your third short of a “despair trilogy.” How this short is connected to your previous films? The films are all connected through their focus on people and exchanges that are all very disconnected. I probably should have called it the ‘disconnected trilogy’, but I find the word despair very extreme, and, in a sense, […]

  Interview with Frédéric Ramade, director of La voie rouge [The Red Way] How did you come up with the idea of an encounter with this medicine man? How did you conceive the filming? I met Steven a bit by chance through mutual acquaintances during his first visit to France a few years ago. In the beginning, I didn’t have a clear idea of […]

  Interview with Jean-Alain Laban, director of Maître-chien [Underdog] How did you come up with the idea of using a supermarket security guard as your main character? You might be a little disappointed when I tell you that I was not “inspired” by a supermarket security guard when I was doing my shopping. It was a process of elimination. I wanted to make a […]

Today, we had an interview with Romain Champalaune about his film Samsung Galaxy (F9).

  Interview with Clélia Schaeffer, director of Le printemps [The Spring] How did you come up with the idea for Le printemps ? In the beginning, I wanted to talk about solitude in the world of agriculture. From this starting point came the idea of Peter, an introverted teenager who struggles to communicate with others his age. Son of a farmer, he is torn […]

Today, we had an interview with Clara Roquet about his film El Adios (I9).