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  • seja_como_for04-OK-RVB
    13 January 2021
    By Élise Loiseau

      Interview with Catarina Romano, director of Seja como for [Anyhow, anyway] Seja como for translates as “Anyway, anyhow”. Why did you choose this title for your short? The title is a message of hope, focussing on her liberation. We may live in difficult times, we may feel that the values of our society are changing, we have to deal with economic crises, financial […]

  • some_manifestations_1-OK-RVB
    13 January 2021
    By Élise Loiseau

      Interview with Zhiyi Wang, director of Some Manifestations of the South To somebody who hasn’t seen the film, how would you introduce it? A rather simple sentence to introduce the story itself: an unusual assignment for a young man paid to honour other people’s dead. Regarding other than the story, I am happy to mention that I have made some attempts in the […]

  • A_Marche_Forcee_1-RVB
    12 January 2021
    By Élise Loiseau

      Interview with Vladilen Vierny, director of À marche forcée [On the March] What was the starting point for A marche forcée? In the spring of 2017, when I was living in Russia, I found myself at an unauthorized protest march organized by the opposition in the center of Moscow. I was surprised to see many teenagers there who seemed to me to be […]

  • A_la_mer_poussiere_still1-RVB
    12 January 2021
    By Clotilde Couturier

      Interview with Héloïse Ferlay, director of À la mer poussière [To the Dusty Sea] What materials did you use for the bodies and for the tears, and why this choice? How many times did you try different things before you found the effect you were looking for? My puppets’ bodies are covered in wool, the tears are made from hydroalcoholic gel before it […]

  • Badaren_01-OK-RVB
    12 January 2021
    By Élise Loiseau

      Interview with Jonatan Etzler, director of Badaren [Swimmer] The film is based on real-life events. Can you tell us a bit about this?     Yes, the film is loosely based on a real event. The idea came to me when I read a small news item about two policemen trying to arrest a man in a public swimming pool. He refused to get out […]

  • Vilains_petits_canards_2-RVB
    12 January 2021
    By Élise Loiseau

      Interview with Anton Balekdjian, director of Les vilains petits canards [The Ugly Ducklings] What were you trying to explore through these two brothers and their relationship? At the outset, the film is my story, it comes from a very strong feeling I had when I wrote the script. And the composition slowly grew up around my need to talk about siblings and reunions. […]

  • Atkurimas-OK-RVB
    12 January 2021
    By Élise Loiseau

      Interview with Laurynas Bareiša, director of Atkūrimas [Dummy] Atkūrimas, your powerful and chilling short, is about perversion and violence, and shows acts of raw brutality. How did you approach the filming of such scenes? First, I worked with Paulius, who played the perpetrator, separately and I introduced him to the rest of the cast only on the day of the shoot. I worked […]

  • hors_jeu_flagrant2-OK-RVB
    11 January 2021
    By Abla Kandalaft

      Interview with Sami Tlili, director of Hors-jeu flagrant [Obvious Offside] Do you have a particular interest in football? In your opinion, what place does football have in Tunisia? I am both a big fan of football as well as a critic of its excesses (the business of football, the political exploitation of football, the fanaticism of both the fans and the major actors […]

  • sestre_Still1-OK-RVB
    11 January 2021
    By Élise Loiseau

      Interview with Katarina Rešek, director of Sestre [Sisters] To somebody who hasn’t seen Sestre, how would you introduce it? Sestre is a story about three young “modern day virđinas” (sworn virgins), tomboys who are living by a set of rigid rules they have created for themselves in modern day Slovenia. They are all children of immigrants from Ex-Yugoslavia, which means they grew up in […]

  • I_am_afraid_to_forget_your_face_still3-OK-RVB
    11 January 2021
    By Abla Kandalaft

      Interview with Sameh Alaa, director of I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face What did you want to explore in this story? The man’s grief? The lost relationship? Both. What made you come up with the idea of him dressing “as a woman”? I just wanted him to hide in order to see her for the last time – this type of costume […]

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