international competition

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 Sasha Argirov, director of Nurture Why did you choose this title in particular? Nurture just popped into my head one day when I was writing a draft of the script. As a title, it sums up the entire story for me. It also provides the perfect ironic counterpoint to the first image we see at the start of the film.  What was […]

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 […]

Watch the interview with the Belgian filmmaker Michael Abay about his short film Klette selected in the 2023 National Competition (I3 programme).

Interview with Amartei Amar, director of TsutsuƐ What was the starting point of TsutsuƐ?TsutsuƐ was born through three spiritually interwoven true stories. The first was from an experience our Producer had when a neighbourhood boy discovered a dead body in an open sewer. As he went to tell others, it rained a great thunderstorm. By the time he managed to get everyone to […]

Interview with Seung-hee Jung, director of Invisible Eyes What was the starting point of Invisible Eyes? What draws you to make a film which deals with childhood, cruelty, and nature?   I have been interested in the invisible world which exists along with the visible world but goes unnoticed due to optical limitations, prejudices, beliefs, etc. for a rather long time. I also have been […]

Interview with José Permar, director of Ir y Volver This is clearly a deeply personal and intimate project. Can you tell me what inspired you to make it?  It was mostly the only thing I was able to do. I was facing a deep longing feeling from my family and hometown, I was feeling very distanced, and the lockdown made it stronger. When my […]

Interview with Alexandra Brodski, director of Joy What did you want to explore through your two protagonists’ relationship?  I wanted to explore the complex dynamics of power and dependency between two children incarcerated in a children’s secure home. We follow the teenage boy Jacob who – based on his age and gender would be expected to be the more powerful character but begins […]

Watch the interview with the Australian filmmaker George-Alex Nagle about his short film Mate selected in the 2022 International Competition (I10 programme).

Interview with Francesco Romano, director of Ambasciatori Ambasciatori evokes the violence of a hidden community, in which older men try to buy sex from two young albanian men. How did you decide on this topic and protagonists to make a film about?For my works I always tend to start and be inspired by the reality that I live or observe.  I learned of […]