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  • I-NowhereFloat-1-RVB
    2 February 2023
    By Élise Loiseau

    Interview with Fan Zhang, director of Nowhere Float What inspired you to tell the story of Xiaomei?Xiaomei is a Liuquin opera actress who escapes from her hometown Cangshan, doing house cleaning work in Shanghai. When she returns to Cangshan to her distanced relatives, her estranged husband and her mother with Alzheimer’s, she has mixed feelings. She wants to take her mother to live […]

  • 163
    1 February 2023
    By Élise Loiseau

    Watch the interview with the Portuguese filmmaker Ary Zara about his short film Um Caroço de Abacate selected in the 2023 International Competition (I2 programme).

  • I-Clean-1-RVB
    27 January 2023
    By Abla Kandalaft

    Interview with Miranda Stern, director of Clean It’s a very candid piece of work. What was the context and what were your motivations for telling this story?Scientific research exploring the self-administration of morphine in animals in the 1970s proved that when rats were offered two water bottles – one filled with water and the other with heroin – the rats would repetitively drink […]

  • I-SerpêhatiyênNeqewimî-1-RVB
    24 January 2023
    By Abla Kandalaft

    Interview with Ramazan Kılıç, director of Serpêhatiyên Neqewimî [Things Unheard Of] Your previous short was at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. Can you tell us how you came up with this new idea for a film?There is a photograph taken by Reza Deghati in Ağrı, where I was born. On that photograph, two children carry an empty television frame. Reza photographed a moment […]

  • Christoph_Büttner
    12 February 2022
    By Élise Loiseau

    Watch the interview with the German filmmaker Christoph Büttner about his short film In Seiner Gnade [In His Mercy] selected in the 2022 International Competition (I2 programme).

  • Pięć minut starsza
    1 February 2022
    By Élise Loiseau

    Interview with Sara Szymanska, director of Pięć Minut Starsza [Five Minutes Older] Pięć Minut Starsza deals with sisterhood and identity. What did you wish to explore in the relationship between the two sisters?I actually have a twin sister myself, and I always felt that this relationship shaped my identity in very specific ways. Me and Nadia are very close, we look similar, we […]

  • Simon_London
    30 January 2022
    By Abla Kandalaft

    Watch the interview with the New Zealander filmmaker Simon London about his short film That Workman’s Arm selected in the 2022 International Competition (I2 programme).

  • Sara_Szymanska
    29 January 2022
    By Élise Loiseau

    Watch the interview with the Polish filmmaker Sara Szymańska about her short film Pięć Minut Starsza selected in the 2022 International Competition (I2 programme).

  • Abisal-2-RVB
    24 January 2022
    By Élise Loiseau

    Interview with Alejandro Alonso, director of Abisal [Abyssal] The ship-breaking yard appears to be the perfect filming location for Abisal, that deals with spirituality and ghostly presence. How did you come up with this idea? We discovered the ship-breaking yard by navigating through Google Earth. From a satellite view, Bahía Honda is full of small, rectangular-shaped spots. Understanding that they were destroyed ships in […]

  • In Seiner Gnade-RVB
    22 January 2022
    By Élise Loiseau

    Interview with Christoph Büttner, director of In Seiner Gnade [In His Mercy] How did you come across La Torture par l’espérance, the particularly cruel short story by Auguste de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, and what has drawn you to make an animated film of it?By March 2018 I already had been stuck since four months in story development of my graduation film. I realized […]

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