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  An interview with Anne Brouillet, director of Champ de bosses [Bumpy Field] What interested you in setting your film in a rural environment? The place where the film takes place wasn’t chosen because it’s rural but simply because of my own past: it’s the village I where spent vacation when I was young. It’s surrounded by forests which I credited with all sorts of […]

  Interview with Marie Le Floc’h, director of Je serai parmi les amandiers [Among the Almond Trees] Where did you get the idea for this story? Had you met Syrians in the same situation? The question of exile in the family is something that resounds strongly with me, and that I had explored in a previous short film. I can’t really explain why, but […]

  Interview with Cheyenne Canaud-Wallays, director of Tout va rentrer dans le désordre [Everything’ll Go Back to Disorder] Where did you get the idea for this film and what interested you about disorder? I worked in a market for years while I was studying. Disorder is a part of a market, which is a very rich place that offers a wide range of situations […]

  Interview with Assia Piqueras and Thibault Verneret, co-directors of Car les hommes passent [For Men Come and Go] How did you find out about the situation in Gardanne? It was in April 2018, a day with a very strong easterly wind. There was this photograph in the paper. An apocalyptic sky, saturated with red dust. The story is already old, it began over […]

  Interview with Simon Gionet, director of Cayenne What did you want to explore in the relation between the man and the young women? My intention was to explore the sense of apprehension that a woman can experience in her everyday life. The anxious feeling of being followed, the fear to be approached insistently and the possibility of a threat are ever-present. Whether it […]

  Interview with Eduardo Carretié, director of Anna Vernor II Tells us a little bit about how your film, Anna Vernor II, came to be. Margaux Lorier, the producer (Envie de Tempête Productions), had gotten in touch with me in 2016 after she saw my first film, La fille du bunker [The Girl from the Bunker]. She asked me if I was working on any […]

  Interview with Jean-Claude Rozec, director of Têtard [Tadpole] What physical or digital media did you paint on for Tadpole? I designed the film’s visual world on paper, painting with watercolors. Subsequently, I looked for ways of re-transcribing that aesthetic with animation programs, which took up a bit of time before I found something satisfactory. I used TVPaint for all of the animation and […]

   Interview with Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas, director of Genève [Geneva] Where did your inspiration for Genève come from? Oliver (the producer) and I were in a situation similar to that of the main character in Geneva. It’s a strange feeling to be the caregiver.  I wanted a way to convey this feeling without expressing it outright. One day I was at the movies with […]

  Interview with Konstantina Kotzamani, director of Electric Swan Can you tell us a bit about the filming process? What inspired you to tell this story? Well, the idea of Electric Swan started quite magically! I first moved to Buenos Aires in 2016. During my very first day in Buenos Aires, I had a long walk at the park where this film’s tropical swan lake lays. While I was […]

  Interview with Victor Boyer, director of La place du mort [The Dead Man’s Place] What did you want to explore in the relation between the two brothers? Initially, I was more interested in Samuel’s trauma rather than the relation between the two brothers: the death of one twin and the survivor’s arbitrary choice of identity. That past history made him a character with […]