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  Interview with Emma Qian Xu and Leopold Dewolf, directors of Nantong Nights What was the starting point for Nantong Nights? Emma: Nantong Nights came about from my desire to make a film about my hometown of Nantong and the way it’s changed. My town, like many Chinese cities, has changed dramatically over the years. When I go back there, it’s always a bit […]

  Interview with Anastasiia Ksenofontova, director of Fabrichnaya etnografiya [Ethnography of Factories] Fabrichnaya etnografiya shows the unseen and the unknown: the daily life of the workers of a factory in Russia. What is it that has drawn you to do a documentary on this subject? It’s quite simple. The opportunity presented itself. How did you decide which images to use to illustrate the subject? I […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Bastien Dubois about his short film Souvenir souvenir selected in the 2021 National Competition (F3 programme).

  Interview with Alberto Vázquez, director of Homeless Home Why did you want to relate the appearance of the characters to famous mystical figures (sorceress, ghost, devil, etc.)? I liked the idea of ​working with witches, ogres, orcs and wizards to delve into current social issues, because although the protagonists of the short film are monsters, their problems are very human: economic crisis, depopulation, […]

  Interview with Theo Montoya, director of Son of Sodom How have you met Camilo Najar? I met Camilo 6 years ago at a party. When I saw him, he immediately caught my attention, he was a special guy, with his curly hair, and super thin. Besides that, he had an overwhelming personality. I will always remember a phrase that he told me “I […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Dinah Ekchajzer about her short film Vas-y voir selected in the 2021 National Competition (F9 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 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 […]

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).