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  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 […]

  Interview with Jorge Cantos, director of Günst ul vándrafoo [Gusts of Wild Life] Why were you interested in picturing the main character in such a mysterious way? The way we pictured the main character has a lot to do with adolescence itself. To me it is the most mysterious time in life; full of boundaries and unsolved questions. Teenagers always appear to me […]

  Interview with Anastasia Borisova, director of Mama What was the appeal in the subject matter? This is my course film. We had a documentary block at the Moscow Film School and were taught veracity in fiction films. I was interested in migrants, nonresidents who live in Moscow, probably because I myself moved to Moscow from Yakutia. I also wanted Galina Tikhonova to play […]

  Interview with Alberto Flores Vilca, director of Mamapara I notice you share a name with Honorata Vilca. Can you tell us more about your relation to her? Mrs. Honorata Vilca is my mother. Since I was 4 years old, I grew up away from her, so I needed to get to know her better, to get closer, to shorten that distance. Although I […]

  Interview with Simon Gionet, director of Cayenne What did you want to explore in the relation between the man and the young women? My intention was to explore the sense of apprehension that a woman can experience in her everyday life. The anxious feeling of being followed, the fear to be approached insistently and the possibility of a threat are ever-present. Whether it […]

  Interview with Eduardo Carretié, director of Anna Vernor II Tells us a little bit about how your film, Anna Vernor II, came to be. Margaux Lorier, the producer (Envie de Tempête Productions), had gotten in touch with me in 2016 after she saw my first film, La fille du bunker [The Girl from the Bunker]. She asked me if I was working on any […]

  Interview with Asaph Luccas, director of Bonde Bonde tells the story of three young black friends who go out seeking for refuge in downtown LGBT+ night scene. How did you go about creating the three main characters? Bonde was wrote by 8 people. We are all LGBTQIA+ individuals who lived most of our lives in São Paulo’s periphery, 6 of us are black. […]

  Interview with Jean-Claude Rozec, director of Têtard [Tadpole] What physical or digital media did you paint on for Tadpole? I designed the film’s visual world on paper, painting with watercolors. Subsequently, I looked for ways of re-transcribing that aesthetic with animation programs, which took up a bit of time before I found something satisfactory. I used TVPaint for all of the animation and […]

  Interview with Alexandre Dostie, director of Je finirai en prison [I’ll End Up in Jail] How did the idea for Je finirai en prison come about? The song Je finirai en prison, by the famous Quebec cowboy André Guitar, put me on the track of this film and in the end, gave it his title. Normally, Quebec country music is rather cheerful and banal […]

  Interview with Azadeh Moussavi, director of The Visit The film is based on a true story. How did you come across it? This story comes from my own life. When I was a child, my father got arrested for political reasons. My father was a journalist and the government was arresting some political activists in 1981 – my father was one of them. […]