national competition

Interview with Carlos Segundo, director of Big Bang  What interested you in the relationship to extreme heat in Big Bang?Big Bang is the second short film in a trilogy of “space” films (the first one being Sideral). In Big Bang, I maintain my focus on the ordinary lives of the marginalized. But like in Sideral, I find the power and strength in the […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Joséphine Darcy Hopkins about her short film Les Dents du bonheur selected in the 2023 National Competition (F9 programme).

Interview with Alexis Pazoumian, director of Bellus What did you want to explore through the relationship between Michel and Santos in the film?Bellus follows Michel’s inner and spiritual journey. The film tells the story from the perspective of the young man. It is not a story of conversion, but of a winding path toward a form of redemption. Evangelical religion plays a very […]

Interview with Arthur Thomas–Pavlowsky, director of La Lutte est une fin [The Struggle Is the End] Your film talks about boxing as a legitimate outlet for countering injustice and discrimination. What led you to make a documentary on the subject?As a participant in the Nuit Debout movement against the labor laws, and later protesting in Calais, I was a victim of police brutality. […]

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 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 […]

Interview with Florentina Gonzalez, director of El After del Mundo What made you choose to locate this encounter in the middle of an environment in a process of destruction?I’m interested in dystopia as a genre because above all I feel it’s very entertaining and liberating: it all starts at the end of what we know. What did you find interesting in the relationship […]

Interview with Pierre Menahem, director of Le Feu au lac [Fire at the Lake] How did you come up with the idea for Le Feu au lac?  At the outset, I was thinking of the high mountain terrain that I know very well, a landscape in the widest sense: a valley, its villages, its inhabitants, the country folk and secondary residents, like myself. A […]

Interview with Hekuran Isufi, director of I Kemi Varros Baballarët I Kemi Varros Baballarët deals with Dardan’s return  from France to Kosovo to visit his father’s grave. What were you interested in exploring with a film that talks about exile and mourning?  The film talks about a country that’s still marked by its past, by war – by the past that still weighs down […]

Interview with Antoine Giorgini, director of Bonne soirée [Good Evening] How did you come up with the idea for this short film? This initial situation (a migrant taking shelter in a basement) happened to people I know who live on the coast. From there, I decided to transform this situation and turn it into a prank.  Did you want to explore issues related to the […]