Interview with Shao Tzu Lin, director of Summer Rain What did you want to explore through Kao Li-Hsuan and Kao Cheng-Hsuan’s relationship?During the pandemic in 2021, I went back to my hometown and spent two months with my mom and my brother. Although we had our phones to use and spent so much time on social media, we still felt very bored. Ten years […]
Interview with Eli Jean Tahchi, director of Des voisins dans ma cour What can you say about the wall that separates Mont-Royal, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Montreal, from Parc-Extensions, a neighborhood where immigrants and some of the city’s poorest people live? Since 1960, a fence made of chain links and steel rods, lining the Boulevard de l’Acadie—two meters high, 1.6 kilometers long, […]
Interview with Mino Capuano, director of Sciaraballa What did you wish to explore through the relationship between Dario and Mimmo, his son? The goal of this film was to tell a simple emotion: embarrassment. So I wanted to tell about the incommunicability between a father and a son. In a universal condition of anxiety about the future, a father’s plea for help collides with […]
Interview with Vokos, director of Takanakuy What was the starting point of Takanakuy? Takanakuy is a Peruvian province tradition in which differences are resolved through violence. For the community, the ritual represents a catharsis. The film represents the same for me: it is a narrative in which I was able to reframe questions about the concept of masculinity that I have carried since […]
Watch the interview with the Brazilian-Canadian filmmaker Jorge Camarotti about his short film Ousmane selected in the 2022 International Competition (I7 programme).
Watch the interview with the Argentinian filmmaker Ezequiel Salinas about his short film Mi ultima aventura [My Last Adventure] selected in the 2022 International Competition (I7 programme).
Watch the interview with the Finnish filmmaker Ilja Rautsi about his short film Night of the Living Dicks selected in the 2022 International Competition (I7 programme).
Watch the interview with the Spanish filmmaker Júlia de Paz Solvas about her short film Harta selected in the 2022 International Competition (I7 programme).
Interview with Ezequiel Salinas and Ramiro Sonzini, co-directors of Mi Última Aventura (My Last Adventure) What was the starting point of the film?The starting point was partly a preliminary work by Ezequiel Salinas, Adieu à la nuit, where a mysterious character rides his moped through the night. In this short film, there was a very special way of filming at night in the […]
