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Interview with Cheol Hwi Kim, director of Hidden Road Can you tell us a bit about your inspirations and the story behind Hidden Road?It began with the image of two cars bumped on a deserted road. The story was built on that image, but the proper location didn’t seem to exist in Korea. So I tried my best to find the most similar location […]

Interview with Arthur Cahn, director of Jeudi, vendredi, samedi The relationship between Romain and Adémar is very touching. How did you come up with the idea for this friendship between colleagues?I’ve always been interested in the way adult artists call on their childlike sensibilities to take on youth. I’m a person who needs a lot of tenderness and I like reading illustrated books. […]

Interview with Eliane Esther Bots, director of In Flow of Words How was In Flow of Words born?In Flow of Words was born out of a coincidental meeting with one of the interpreters, Alma, whom I met at a film festival in our hometown The Hague. Alma was behind a camera and as a fellow filmmaker I approached her and asked what she […]

Interview with Yue Huang, director of The Executioner How was The Executioner born?First of all, the fast economic development in Shanghai stimulated me to a certain extent. My studio is located in the city center in which there are lots of commercial buildings there. People talk about how to create economic values and I am surprised by almost everyone putting economic in a […]

Interview with Frédéric Bas and Caroline Brami, co-directors of L’Inspection Where did you get the idea for the interview between the school inspector and the teacher?We were looking for a situation that’s rarely seen in films about schools and that was likely to raise as many questions as possible about our profession. We thought the discussion between the inspector and the history teacher […]

Interview with Katherine Propper, director of Birds How was Birds born?I wanted to make this film, in part, to explore my creative process. My last short film involved a local community of young people whom I spent time with and worked with to make a film about their world. Birds expands on that approach more deeply. This film is more improvised, more off-the-cuff […]

Interview with Bill Morrison, director of Her Violet Kiss From which material did you build up Her Violet Kiss?Her Violet Kiss sources material from a lost German film, Liebeshölle (1928), directed by Wiktor Biegnaski and Carmine Gallone, and which was released in the USA as Pawns of Passion in 1929. I was working with the only known surviving copy of the film, which […]

Interview with Lauriane Lagarde, director of Un corps brûlant [A Free Run] What interested you about the subject of romantic encounters and are you planning on making other films on the same theme?I was extremely desirous of making a physical film where bodies would be put to the test. This encounter has nothing natural about it. More than the personalities of these two […]

Interview with Morad Mostafa, director of Khadiga Is Khadiga based on someone you know? What motivated you to tell her story? Khadiga is a character we all know, and she exists in all societies in different forms and ways. What prompted me to tell this story is that it is a story that I’d like to tell because it affects me very much and […]

Interview with Roberto Jiménez Bozada, director of Cinco Estrellas [Five Stars] Where did the idea of Cinco estrellas come from?The idea comes from a news story I read. An advertisement for tourist trips appeared in an English newspaper to see the most depressed areas of Greece. I simply exchanged Greece for Spain, two countries with great social inequalities. The film is shot in […]