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  Interview with Noé Debré, director of Une fille moderne [A Progressive Girl] What was your inspiration for Une fille moderne? The film’s inspiration was a story by Raphaël Hayoun, a friend, who like the main character, is studying in a Yeshiva school in Israel. Raphaël recounts his experience of arranged dates, shiddouh, which are supposed to allow young people from the Jewish religious […]

  Interview with Sébastien Betbeder, director of Jusqu’à l’os [To the Bone] Why did want to tackle the topic of angst and the questioning it can lead to? I don’t think angst is actually a particular “topic” in the film. It’s a question of the intermittent state that my characters find themselves in; they’re are simply living through the inconveniences of the times. In […]

  Interview with Paul Nouhet, director of Les méduses de Gouville [The Jellyfish of Gouville] Tell us a little bit about how Les méduses de Gouville came to be. At the very beginning, I met with Tristan Vaslot, the film’s producer. We’d met in our first year of film school at La Fémis and we immediately got along. Tristan brought me for a weekend out […]

  Interview with Randa Maroufi, director of Bab Sebta The film is dedicated to your father. Could you tell us a bit more about what he did? My father was a customs inspector until the end of the 90s. He worked mainly in the Laâyoune, Casablanca and Marrakech airports. Many members on my mother’s side of the family are from the north and work […]

  Interview with Vincent Pouplard, director of Ce n’est qu’après [Only After] When you started making the film, did you specifically want to work with young adults, or was the age of the witnesses simply a consequence of the topic that interested you or of your approach in handling the topic? I wanted to work with young adults, with young people who had difficulties […]

  An interview with Thomas Buisson, director of Claude libre  >Where did you get the idea for the character Claude? I got the idea for this character after hearing about a news item that took place in the south of France in 2012. A 70-year old man held up a horse race betting bar in his town and then fled on a bicycle. Everyone […]

  Interview with Zoran Boukherma and Anaïs Tellenne, co-directors of Le mal bleu [The Blue Problem]  How did you come up with the idea of setting the action in a pigeon hideout? From the beginning we knew we wanted to make a film about lack of self-confidence and the fear of losing control that it entails. When we started thinking about where we could place our […]

  Interview with Osman Cerfon, director of Je sors acheter des cigarettes [I’m Going Out for Cigarettes]  I read that the film was selected by the Locarno festival on just a working copy – that is quite rare. Did you feel a lot of buzz generating around this film from the beginning? It’s always difficult to say. Indeed, I had good feedback on the […]

  Interview with Prïncia Car, director of Barcelona  How did you get the actors together? Did the writing happen as you went along? Within what framework was it written? Invited by the association Ph’Art et Balises (a cultural association that has been very active in underprivileged areas in Marseilles for over 10 years), I led a writing and acting workshop for three months last […]

  Interview with Roberto Catani, director of Per Tutta la Vita [For Your Whole Life]  What can you tell us about how Per Tutta la Vita came to be? The film originated with me thinking about the pain we feel at the end of a relationship, and about our ever-more frequent inability to accept that pain. The idea of telling a love story by reversing […]