Interview with Abbas Taheri and Mahdieh Toosi, co-directors of Aban What has inspired Aban’s character?Abbas: My cousin struggled to get his real gender by surgery in a patriarchal family. His childish insist on getting called by a male name, instead of his female birthname while he was four, were soon transformed to gender identity disorder and his brave efforts inspired me to work on […]
Interview with Julien Gaspar-Oliveri, director of Marianne How did your desire to make this film come about?I would like to specify that the scenario is by Julie Debiton. I am not the author of this film which is something I’ve never tried before in all my previous work. Marianne was commissioned to be part of a collection for France Télévision with female leads. […]
Interview with Dania Reymond-Boughenou, director of Constellation de la Rouguière [Constellation] Where did your desire to make a film about the Rouguière neighborhood in Marseille come from?That part of Marseille comes out of a very specific context: 1962 when Algeria gained its freedom. At that moment, the repatriates from the war became la Rouguière’s first inhabitants. Several waves of immigration followed, including many […]
Interview with Sébastien Betbeder, director of Planète triste [Planet Gloom] How did you end up meeting the characters in Planète triste? What did they bring to the writing of the script?Planète triste arose from a commission from the city of Ivry and the Le Luxy movie theater through Jean-Jacques Ruttner (thanks also to the production support of Envie de Tempête). In the past, […]