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Watch the interview with the German filmmaker Nikita Diakur about his short film Backflip selected in the 2023 Lab Competition (L3 programme).

Watch the interview with the Jordanian filmmaker Lawrence Abu Hamdan about his short film 45th Parallel selected in the 2023 Lab Competition (L3 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Yann Gonzalez about his short film Hideous selected in the 2023 Lab Competition (L3 programme).

Interview with Bi Gan, director of A Short Story What inspired you to make A Short Story?The inspiration for the script is the bedtime stories I often made up for my children. I keep notes of the interesting ones. How long did you work on the script before starting to shoot? How much space did you leave for improvisation?We spent about a month […]

Watch the interview with the Brazilian filmmaker Leonardo Martinelli about his short film Fantasma Neon selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L3 programme).

Interview with Jean-Baptiste Alazard, director of Saint Jean-Baptiste [Saint John the Baptist] Where do the film’s images come from? Can you tell us more about the local festivals?The film is composed of images from two “sources”. There are shots that I took myself, from a kind of journal that I’ve kept for the last ten years, or forgotten drafts. I filmed these shots […]

Interview with Julia Siuda, director of Furia [Fury] How did you imagine the physical depictions of contrariety and growing anger?It was quite simple because the body abuse methods (head) were closely related to the source of the sounds that irritated me. For example, munching, as I imagine it, comes from the tongue. That is why I tear out the character’s tongue. It’s supposed […]

Interview with Lotfi Achour, director of Angle mort [Blind Spot] Why did you want to present this story using a first-person testimonial?All the details mentioned in the film are real facts that I was able to corroborate in several ways: the trial, witness accounts from the victims and the family, police reports, the judicial order… The more I dug around and went deeper, […]

Watch the interview with the Polish filmmaker Julia Siuda about her short film Furia selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L3 programme).