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  An interview with Margot Barbé, director of Marie Boudin  Marie Boudin is an elegant short film that’s poetic and melancholic. What is its starting point? The film is first of all about a character, Marie Boudin. Coming home from school one evening, a friend and I were talking about names that made us laugh. Marie Boudin’s was still fresh in my mind. There […]

  Interview with Simon Guélat, director of Aline Why did you want the main subject of the film to be a hidden love affair? As in my first film, what interests me is how a character frees himself (or not) from the environment from which he came, his ability to invent something else, something unexpected. In Aline, the forbidden adds tension, it makes the […]

  Interview with Álvaro Gago Diaz, director of 16 de Decembro [16th December] Your short Matria won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Congratulations! What has been the impact of that success on your career and filmmaking so far? It has definitely had a positive impact. People in general are more open or more willing to spend their time listening to my ideas. However, […]

  Interview with Raphaël Frydman, director of L’appartement [The Apartment] L’appartement is a documentary about the remnants of childhood, in which the director seems to be looking for traces of a bygone era. What can you tell us about the origin of this film? Childhood memories are very present in my life, as I believe is the case for many people. The visual memories of […]

  Interview with Maja Gehrig, director of Average Happiness How did you get the inspiration for animating diagrams? Actually the inspiration for Average Happiness came from a spelling error. I was writing a proposal for another film project and I had to enclose an “organigramm” (organization chart). Instead I wrote “onaniegramm”. This gave me the idea to treat diagrams like characters and bodies, to uncover […]

  Interview with Robin Summons, director of Skewwhiff Could you explain the title? The title Skewwhiff meant a couple of things to me. On one level, Bill’s shirt collar becomes “skewwhiff” or askew at one point and Rae adjusts it for him. This felt like a worthy moment to use as a title as we get the sense Rae has spent her life caring […]

  Interview with Jeff Frost, director of California on Fire Do you live in California? Did you travel to specific locations for the film? How often do fires occur? I live near Palm Springs, CA. I traveled to over 70 wildfires over five years in every corner of the state. California is over 1,200 km from south to north in length.  How much are […]

  An interview with Medhi Benallal, director of Madame Baurès Why did you want to make a film about Madame Baurès? I really wanted to make a film with her, but that wasn’t possible. This film stems from this impossibility. What interested you regarding the lonely situation of this person in her last days? I didn’t suspect that I would accompany her in her […]

  Interview with Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze, co-director of Tradition How did you go about creating Tradition? Can you talk us through the filming processes a little? An anti-homophobic rally was held in Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 17, 2013, the International Day Against Homophobia. The gay rights activists holding the rally were met by thousands of protestors opposing homosexuality, who were allowed to break through […]

  Interview with Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis, director of All the Fires the Fire All The Fires the Fire deals with manhood and fraternity. What did you want to explore in the relationship between the characters? The story is very loosely based on Abel and Cain, the older brother killing the younger one after his father’s actions fill him with jealousy. It is essentially a father […]