Interview with Soufiane Adel, director of Le Jour où j’étais perdu [One Day When I Was Lost] alk to us about the bond that unites the Voyager and Alain’s journey.The Voyager space mission was started by NASA in the 70s with the goal of exploring the solar system and of sending signals of our societies on Earth to potential alien civilizations. It was […]
Interview with Diego Céspedes, director of Las Criaturas Que se Derriten Bajo el Sol [The Melting Creatures] How did you get the inspiration for Las Criaturas Que se Derriten Bajo el Sol ?The original idea came from an image that was more plastic than thematic: the idea of a community melting under the sun and that they played games to find out who […]
Interview with Théo Audoire and Lova Karlsson, co-directors of Ovan Gruvan How did you learn of the situation in this city? Lova had been there several times, so she had heard about relocations. Kiruna sits atop the largest iron mine in Europe, and this mining activity threatens certain neighborhoods from collapse. This situation particularly concerns the city center, which is currently being relocated three […]
Interview with Pierre Menahem, director of Le Feu au lac [Fire at the Lake] How did you come up with the idea for Le Feu au lac? At the outset, I was thinking of the high mountain terrain that I know very well, a landscape in the widest sense: a valley, its villages, its inhabitants, the country folk and secondary residents, like myself. A […]
Interview with Lubna Playoust, director of Le Cormoran [The Cormorant] What interested you in the mother-daughter relationship?Childhood bonding and its evolution through time, and the subtle elements that reveal that evolution. Why did you want to work on the unfolding of time? Do you see yourself making other films on the subject?As Kierkegaard said: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must […]
Interview with Nans Laborde-Jourdàa, director of Léo la nuit [Léo by Night] Where did you come up with the idea for Léo la nuit?I wanted to show something about my life and the lives of people I hold dear. The feeling of material and emotional instability that we juggle with flair on a daily basis. A man walking on the crest excels in […]
Interview with Kate McMullen, director of Little Berlin Why were you interested in the Berlin wall at first?I started thinking about it in 2019, when Germany was celebrating 30 years since the fall of the Wall – but I needed a new angle. Doing some digging, I came across Mödlareuth, a sleepy farming village which was split in two by the Iron Curtain in 1946. […]