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Interview with Jean-Baptiste Durand, director of Vrai gars [Big Boy] Could you explain your choice for the title?For me the title has a double meaning and may be interpreted in two ways. In the beginning, Sami is a “real guy”, in the hypermasculine, macho, a bit of a street-smart rogue sense of the word. Whereas, on the contrary, at the end he is […]

Interview with Arthur Jaquier, director of Avec Calvin [With Calvin] What was the basis for the character Calvin?The character Calvin is largely based on Calvin himself, hence the title. It’s a portrait that’s been staged. The film feels very spontaneous. Was the making of it genuinely spontaneous or was it actually the product of numerous drafts and lengthy rehearsals with the actors?There were […]

Interview with Jumana Issa and Flavio Luca Marano, directors of Es Muss [It Must] How was Es Muss born?On a roadtrip with plenty of time thinking about our mothers. Can you tell us a bit about Silvia’s character, and the way she decides to face adversity?She’s a person who never really stands up for herself, but at this day everything she has left […]

Interview with Marin Gérard, director of À l’ombre l’après-midi What were the circumstances of you writing the script for À l’ombre l’après-midi?I wrote most of the script at the end of 2020, during the second lockdown. It had been rattling around in my head for a while and I didn’t write it as a reaction to movie theaters being shut down, but writing […]

Interview with Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz, co-directors of Flounder The film deals with masculinity, rituals and loyalty. Can you tell me what inspired you to make it? What real life experiences led you to write about these topics?We came of age as young men, surrounded by toxic masculinity.  It was pervasive in many facets of our lives, from sports teams and youth […]

Interview with Gabriel González Acosta, director of Concertina Why were you interested into brotherhood? Do you have further projects in mind on this theme?I was interested in brotherhood because of the intimacy that it entails. I wanted to explore the intimacy of language that exists between brothers, all the unspoken ways of communicating, verbally, physically, emotionally that develop over time, in the private […]

Interview with Anne-Sophie Bailly, director of La Ventrière [The Midwife] Why did you choose to use the Middle Ages to tell this story? And why set it in the Jura mountains?The Middle Ages is a very broad historical period, and is sometimes very caricatured. In the film, I depict the late Middle Ages, or even the early Renaissance, around 1600, and that’s a […]

Entretien avec Assaad Khoueiry, réalisateur de A Broken Fan Can you tell us more about the conditions that have led your protagonist to take action? When you are the only breadwinner in your family and you have to provide them with food and the most basic needs of life, pay the school tuition fees, the rent and the bills. Then you find yourself jobless […]

Interview with Rakan Mayasi, director of Trumpets in the Sky Is the character of Boushra based on someone you know?The character of Boushra, if we speak about characterization, is not based on anyone. The destiny of Boushra, the idea of being forced to marry someone at 14 years old is based on my grandmother’s story. My grandmother was forced to get married when […]

Interview with Janloup Bernard, director of J’avais un camarade [I Had a Comrad] Why did you choose a military school as the setting for your story? Is it an environment that you know well? In my previous short films, I have already explored exclusively male environments. In choosing a military institution as the setting, I wanted to explore the theme of virility in a […]