Interview with Valentine Caille, director of Amarres What did you wish to explore through Livia and Louis’ relationship? The complexity of sibling love. I think that brothers and sisters are capable of experiencing extreme emotions for each other; they can unconditionally hate and love one other. I initially wanted to make a film about the personal journey of a sister faced with her brother’s […]
Interview with Carlos Segundo, director of Big Bang What interested you in the relationship to extreme heat in Big Bang?Big Bang is the second short film in a trilogy of “space” films (the first one being Sideral). In Big Bang, I maintain my focus on the ordinary lives of the marginalized. But like in Sideral, I find the power and strength in the […]
Interview with Florentina Gonzalez, director of El After del Mundo What made you choose to locate this encounter in the middle of an environment in a process of destruction?I’m interested in dystopia as a genre because above all I feel it’s very entertaining and liberating: it all starts at the end of what we know. What did you find interesting in the relationship […]
Interview with Lisa Giacchero, director of L’Arrivée du soleil dans votre signe [The Sun’s Entry Into Your Sign] Are the characters Karine and Sylvain based on real people? How did you come up with the idea for their meeting?I’ve travelled alone frequently and observed that, among solitary travelers, there are those who intend to remain alone and those who take every opportunity to […]
Interview with Ingrid Chikhaoui, director of Trois grains de gros sel [Three Grains of Coarse Salt] Is it fair to describe Trois grains de gros sel as a coming-of-age story? Do the two children come into their own?The film is about what it’s like growing up with an unstable parent; about the strategies children adopt to live with that. The children (and their mother) are […]