Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Anthony Brinig about his short film Cloche Petite aux merveilles du pays selected in the 2023 National Competition (F11 programme).
Interview with Vincent Fontano, director of Sèt Lam How does dance factor into your inspiration for Sèt Lam? To what extent was the act of dancing important to you? For Sèt Lam, dance is at the heart of the film because it is an act that heals, that creates community, and that helps deals with grief. The “Kabaré service” is a very special space […]
Interview with Amélie Bonnin, director of Partir un jour [Bye Bye] How did you come up with the character Julien? Why did you choose Normandy? The idea was simply the personal sense that I have of belonging to the place where I grew up, and of always having this ambiguous feeling each time I go back. On the one hand I tell myself I […]
Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Marie Larrivé about her short film Noir-Soleil selected in the 2022 National Competition (F11 programme).
Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Olivier Bayu Gandrille about his short film TNT selected in the 2022 National Competition (F11 programme).
Interview with Marie Larrivé, director of Noir-Soleil Had you visited Vesuvius before? Why did you choose that location for Noir-Soleil?Yes, I’d gone with my parents when I was a child and I went back there to scout while I was writing the script in order to create a coherent space. I like the idea of an ancestral danger that hovers over everything, a disturbing […]
Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Amélie Bonnin about her short film Partir un jour selected in the 2022 National Competition (F11 programme).
Interview with Victor Trifilieff, director of Les Curiosités du mal [The Hunt of the Unicorn] Could you tell us how you came up with the title? What do you think of the English translation?I like it when a film’s title has a certain poetry to it, a hint of mystery even before you’ve seen the first images in it. I’d rather the title […]
Interview with Olivier Bayu Gandrille, director of TNT Why did you choose to set the story during the 2005 riots? It wasn’t so much a choice as a desire to stay true to my operating principle: my initial intention was to talk about a part of my teenage years in the suburbs of Paris. As it happens, those years were strongly marked by the deaths […]
Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Damien Salama about his short film Notre doctrine selected in the 2021 National Competition (F11 programme).
