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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 […]

Interview with Binghan Lin, director of The Trapped Pig When and where did you film this short? What was the situation with Covid? I shot this short film in Cining, a city in Northwest China, in 2020 summer. In that time, the situation with Covid was not good, and many people and the government feared of losing control of the epidemic, and they did […]

Interview with Bilal Alkhatib, director of Palestine 87  The film is based on a true story. How did you hear about it? Why did you decide to tell it as a short film? This film tells a story from the 1987 Intifada; it is believed to be a true story. I heard about it from a taxi driver, although I embellish it for cinematic […]

Interview with Julius Gintaras Blum, director of Chemkids  What is your particular relationship with Chemnitz? I was born in Dresden, a city right next to Chemnitz. When I was passing through Chemnitz by train in my early 20s, I realised that I had never been to the city before, even though it was so close to my hometown. Then I fell in love with […]

Interview with Fabián León López, director of Pitbull  Firstly, can you explain the title?In recent years, the pitbull dog race has been used by their owners to show strength. It has become a mask to a very simplistic manhood which is now falling to pieces. Can you tell us about what you wanted to explore through this relationship? Between man and woman, and […]

Interview with Enrique Buleo, director of Las Visitantes What made you want these ladies’ story?  Were they inspired from people in your life? In my village, most of the retired people that usually go to guided tours are women and many of them are widows. Widows are very common here (and maybe everywhere) and I’ve always thought that they really begin to live when […]

Interview with Darcy Prendergast, director of Strange Beasts What’s your relation to Prenda? I suppose that was the starting point for wanting to tell this story?   Prenda is my animal-obsessed father, who at 17 years old worked as a big cat keeper at the Bacchus Marsh Lion and Tiger Safari – a popular tourist destination in an incredibly small Australian town. I’d long tried to find the right format for this […]

Interview with Ophelia Harutyunyan, director of Il faut tout un village… Why are there no men? What’s the social and economic context in which this story is unfolding?There are many villages in Armenia that have almost no adult men, only women, children and elders. This is a result of men going to Russia to find work, like construction or other blue collar jobs. […]

Interview with Bahar Pars, director of Åsnelandet  I have read that Åsnelandet part of a trilogy. Can you tell about your inspirations and the story behind this trilogy?When I started working with the project, I noticed that it contained too many aspects and material for only one film. It was a way to challenge myself to repeat things, but from a different perspective […]

Interview with Vincent René-Lortie, director of Invincible   Why did you decide to use the story of Marc-Antoine as the subject of your film, Invincible? The synopsis states that the film is based on a true story. Can you say a bit about that? Invincible is directly inspired by the story of my childhood friend Marc-Antoine Bernier who died at the age of fourteen […]