Interview with Maïté Sonnet, director of Des jeunes filles enterrent leur vie [Bachelorette Party] After Massacre, you’ve made Des jeunes filles enterrent leur vie which is more of a comedy. What was the starting point for this film?Actually, and bizarrely, I never thought I’d write a comedy more than anything else. Humor almost comes by itself, without my intending it, or else it comes through […]
Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Lucie Prost about her short film Va dans les bois selected in the 2022 National Competition (F3 programme).
Watch the interview with the French filmmakers Caroline Brami and Frédéric Bas about their short film L’Inspection selected in the 2022 National Competition (F9 programme).
Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Pauline Penichout about her short film Mat et les Gravitantes selected in the 2021 National Competition (F5 programme).
Watch the interview with the Russian filmmaker Vladilen Vierny about his short film À marche forcée selected in the 2021 National Competition (F9 programme).
Interview with Mélanie Matranga, director of Jour & Nuit Where did you get the idea for Jour & Nuit? Reading Virginia Woolf’s novel Night and Day, which, on the surface hasn’t got much to do with my story but which, more deeply, talks about frustrated desires and the difficulty of adapting to social conventions and the expectations of others and those we impose on ourselves. Why […]
Interview with Héloïse Ferlay, director of À la mer poussière [To the Dusty Sea] What materials did you use for the bodies and for the tears, and why this choice? How many times did you try different things before you found the effect you were looking for? My puppets’ bodies are covered in wool, the tears are made from hydroalcoholic gel before it […]
Interview with Jean Lecointre, director of Les animaux domestiques (Domestic Animals) What inspired you to make Les animaux domestiques? As a child in the early 1970s, I was fascinated by a collection of books called La Vie Privée des Animaux (The Private Lives of Animals). The works were translated from Italian and were remarkably well-illustrated. Every double-page spread presented the animal in […]
Interview with Léa Triboulet, director of The Brother What interested you in the relationship to grief? The Brother explores the solitude of three sisters and their difficulties grappling with the loss of their brother. Contrasting absence and presence, we follow these characters in New Orleans, a city itself in a state of grief and rebuilding. I became interested in what happens after […]
