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  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 […]

  Interview with Riad Bouchoucha, director of La veillée [The Wake] What interests you about mourning, why did you want to the action to take place at a wake? My desire to situate the action at a wake comes from a personal experience. Like the protagonist, I lost my mother and I was surprised by the attitudes of some of the close family and […]

  Interview with Erenik Beqiri, director of The Van Why were you interested in illegal immigration? Illegal immigration has become part of the Albanian culture these last 30 years. After the communist regime fell in the 90s, most Albanians immigrated to Italy, Greece, England and other countries. At first you’d think this happened only back then, but we still have people trying to illegally […]

  Interview with Valérie Leroy, director of Teen Horses What interested you about the period of adolescence? I’m very interested in questions of identity: How do we become who we are? How can society influence our development? To what degree are we free? And in that regard, adolescence is truly a watershed period. And also to what degree we’re able to construct ourselves despite […]

  Interview with Sébastien Auger, director of Plot [Cone] What interested you in the music world and in the relationship to the musical? Music is a daily passion that nourishes a good part of my imagination. For example, I always listen to music while writing and often a piece helps me find the right tone or the right color for a sequence.  So, from […]

  Interview with Jérémie Cousin, director of À l’Ouest [Westward] What inspired you to make a short film about father-child relations, divorce and life’s trials? I wanted to make a film on the lack of communication in a family and the problems that can lead to. My parents are divorced and everyone is doing fine nowadays but I think we’ve all suffered from a […]

  Interview with Vincent Fontano, director of Blaké [Tar] How did you come up with the idea to make a film about two guards reinventing the world in the basement of an underground parking lot? This film was born from my personal experience as a night watchman on Reunion Island during my college years. Unlike the two security guards in the movie, I was […]

  Interview with Noël Fuzellier, director of Mars Colony Where did you get the inspiration for Logan’s character? During a training course that I gave a few years ago, I met a very distracted, very noisy teenager, who was sometimes funny and often aggressive. He wouldn’t listen to anyone and seemed only to be there to disrupt the class. He had an incredible violence […]

  Interview with William Laboury, director of Yandere Why did you want to use an artificial human companion rather than an ex-girlfriend who controls Siri, Cortana or Alexa from afar? I’ve been interested in the idea of artificial human companions ever since I saw an ad for this type of holographic girlfriend in Japan. You immediately wonder what she thinks about while she’s waiting […]

  Interview with Marion Lacourt, director of Moutons, loup et tasse de thé [Sheep, Wolf and a Cup of Tea] The film is dedicated to your grandmother. Can you tell us more about the connection? The origin of the project is the image of my grandmother with bags of camomille tea on her eyes. That was one of the first pre-bedtime rituals I witnessed […]