interview

  Interview with Rayka Zehtabchi and Sam Davis, directors of Are You Still There? You created three great female characters, and the daughter-mother bond is really well depicted. What can you tell us about the character development? Rayka: Spoiler alert here. The story is very personal. My father passed away during my first year of college. Despite pressure from my family and friends to […]

  Interview with Sophie Beaulieu, director of Salem Why did you want to depict such a strict, snobbish family? The family isn’t so much strict and snobbish as stuck in their “values”, which they transmit by repeating rituals, behaviors and absurd ideologies. The upper classes are convinced they’re right; they’re very good at perpetuating patterns that need to be broken. It’s alarming when you […]

Watch the interview with the German filmmaker Adrian Figueroa about his short film Letters from Silivri selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L3 programme).

  Interview with Fernando Criollo, director of Cumbres y cenizas [Summits and Ashes]  Can you explain the choice of title? I was interested in the idea of ​​carrying on the shoulders the meaning of life, while ascending to a point that allows us to see ourselves more clearly and from further afield. Metaphorically, rise to the call of the Apus, the spirits of the […]

  Interview with Houzhi Huang, Yuanqing Cai, Mandimby Lebon, Theo Tran Ngoc, Mikolaj Janiw and Nathan Crabot, codirectors of Coffin What made you want to make Coffin? We originally wanted to make a film with a short and simple story and to enjoy ourselves making an animation. We also wanted to make a film about an insomniac. Meanwhile, we came across a documentary on […]

  Interview with Dmitry Geller, director of Khoziayka mednoy gory [The Mistress of the Copper Mountain]  The synopsis mentions that the film is based on the Ural mining factory folklore. Can you tell us a bit about the specificity of this folklore? Ural is considered the biggest industrial zone in the world. Its development began in the 18-19 centuries. The people who worked in […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Nyima Cartier about her short film L’homme silencieux selected in the 2021 National Competition (F6 programme).

  Interview with Yohan Manca, director of Red star What motivated you to tell the story of Adel’s journey? Is his character based on a person you knew, or on a personal experience? I heard about the story of Djamel Chaar in 2013, a job seeker, a clown in his spare time, who immolated himself in front of an unemployment agency in Nantes. It’s […]

Watch the interview with the English filmmaker Lorna Nickson Brown about her short film Ned & Me selected in the 2021 International Competition (I9 programme).

  Interview with Thanasis Tsimpinis, director of Escaping the Fragile Planet What drew you to this story that focuses on an encounter between two men just before the end of the world? Τhere are not quite as many boy-meets-boy (or girl-meets-girl) tales out there. And like in my previous short film Fawns, I like creating queer characters, although I choose to not necessarily focus […]