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Interview with Shuli Huang, director of Will You Look at Me  How did the inspiration come about for Will You Look at Me? How much of the footage did you shoot on purpose? Did you work on the soliloquy first or after selecting footage?After I returned to China from New York during the pandemic, I bought a super 8mm camera. I brought it […]

Interview with Lois Patiño, director of El Sembrador de Estrellas [The Sower of Stars] How often do you work on poetry? Did you write a part of El Sembrador de Estrellas by yourself?I’m not used to writing poetry, just sometimes, but I like to read it a lot, and this project was a beautiful reason to start writing more. The script of this […]

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 […]

Interview with Pablo Cuturrufo, director of The Phantom Touch How did you construct your narrative from the VR chats in The Phantom Touch? Did you approach users with the project already in mind?       The narrative was built along the way, as when I started I was not sure what the documentary was going to be about. I just knew I wanted to explore and […]

Interview with Kamal Aljafari, director of Paradiso, XXXI, 108  Where and when does Paradiso, XXXI, 108 take place?Paradiso, XXXI, 108 is taking place in Al-Naqab desert, in the south of Palestine. From which material did you get the military pictures? Did you do editing?The material is coming from films commissioned by the Israeli Army. They were didactic, educational propaganda films, where basically being […]

Interview with Gala Hernández López, director of La Mécanique des fluides [The Mechanics of Fluids] What prompted you to make a film about the issues raised by the messages left by Anathematic Anarchist? Do you plan to make other films addressing these issues?My initial desire was to make a film about the solitude specific to digital capitalism through the example of dating apps. […]

Interview with Mehedi Mostafa, director of Fantasy in a Concrete Jungle How much are you interested in urbanization? Do you have further projects on this topic?I studied architecture in Dhaka, maybe that’s why I’m interested in urbanism and urbanization. I used to think Dhaka would become a well-designed city and it’s possible. Surely, it was a utopia. But utopia is important for the […]

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 Balázs Turai, director of Amok  Why did you choose this topic?I was reading about Jung’s concept of the shadow, the part of our psyche that remains hidden and uncontrollable to our conscious mind. I was inspired to portray someone’s shadow as a cartoony gnome who takes control of their life. Also I was moved by psychologist Péter Popper’s idea that a […]