International short film festival

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 Leo Černic, director of Pentola How did you get the inspiration for Pentola?Although Pentola may seem like a pretty silly film (and it certainly is!), it stems from a very personal story. A few years ago I totally fell in love with a man, and found myself facing for the first time a thousand problems, questions and doubts that I had never […]

Interview with Emma Limon, director of I Once Was Lost  What was the starting point for writing the script? My father has an incredible memory, not just for details about events from the past, but also about the precise thoughts he had at the time of those events. For thirteen years, he kept this story to himself, and all of a sudden one day […]

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 […]

An interview with Lisa Enes, director of Portør How familiar are you with the hospital as a workplace? Why did you set the film there?In 2016, I started working part-time at the bottom of the hospital hierarchy as a hospital porter – a person who moves patients and vital supplies between departments. Prior to this, hospitals were an unknown world for me. It was […]

Interview with Jan Bujnowski, director of Diabeł [The Devil] Who is the devil here and what does he represent? Why did you choose to portray him this way?      The devil in my film represents all the people who prey on other’s weaknesses and try to make a profit from their misery. How he looks like is defined by the time when the […]

Interview with Denise Cirone, Sebastian Doringer, Andrey Kolesov, Chiayu Liu, Zhen Tian and Lan Zhou, co-directors of Go Fishboy Was Go Fishboy’s conception starting point an idea or a picture, such as a drawing?The seed for the story came from writing games we did at school. Two of our team members, Sebastian and Zhen, came up with the idea of a boy, who […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Damien Salama about his short film Notre doctrine selected in the 2021 National Competition (F11 programme).

Watch the interview with the Spanish filmmaker Eloy Domínguez Serén about his short film Os Corpos selected in the 2021 International Competition (I5 programme).

Watch the interview with the German filmmakers Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzsch about their short film Masel Tov Cocktail selected in the 2021 International Competition (I2 programme)