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Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Julie Caty about her short film Normal selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L4 programme).

  Interview with Paul Bush, director of Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic At first, did you get the inspiration from the sight of materials, maybe accumulated, or from the line of thought? Since Furniture Poetry in 1999 I have been making replacement animation using multiple, similar-shaped, found objects. I wanted to animate plastic junk for a long time. Ten years ago I proposed it to a Chinese […]

  Interview with Maximilian Badier-Rosenthal, director of Malabar  How did Malabar come about? The idea came to me when I met Marcel Jacq, the actor in my previous short film Ông Ngoai. He had never acted before. It was pure chance when I passed in front of a cafe on my way to work. At the time, he agreed to play the role of […]

  Interview with Siiri Halko, director of Haikara How would you introduce the film to somebody who hasn’t seen it? Haikara is an absurd yet realistic film about the troubles of trying to find the right way of saying goodbye.  What did you wish to explore through the relationship between Veikka and his father Veikka and Kari have a kind of relationship in which […]

  Interview with Léo Bittencourt, director of Vagalumes [Fireflies] How did you get into the idea of shooting a public park by night? When we started the research about the construction of the park we decided to change the focus of the film. Parque do Flamengo, or simply Aterro do Flamengo, was one of the major public works to renovate the city center of […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Elie Girard about his short film Les mauvais garçons selected in the 2021 National Competition (F2 programme).

  Interview with Benoit Blanc and Matthias Girbig, directors of Choulequec  How did you come up with the idea for Choulequec? The film is the result of a project for a show that we’ve had in the works for several years now. As with any show, developing it takes time, and finding the right financial partner in France with a mixed genre like this […]

A video interview with the member of the Lab Jury Juanita Onzaga, director, cinematographer and visual artist. Her previous short film “Our Song to War” was selected in the 2019 Lab Competition.

Watch the interview with the Australian filmmaker Adrian Chiarella about his short film Dwarf Planet selected in the 2021 International Competition (I13 programme).

  Interview with Jannis Alexander Kiefer, director of Kollegen [Good German Work] What did you want to explore in the relationship between the woodworkers and the film crew? The woodworkers are representative of the locals living in the village where our film takes place. A young woman and an older man who have lived in their region since they were born and who are […]