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  An interview with Nathalie Saugeon, director of Roberto le canari  Can you tell us about the origins of Roberto le canari? The day my son’s canary died, he was devastated. I felt a huge gap between his sorrow –true mourning – and my pragmatism: what should we do with this canary? Should we burry him? It was both funny and upsetting and that […]

  Interview with Nara Normande, director of Guaxuma  Sand is a reference to your childhood on the beach, but we can imagine that it’s also a way to evoke many other things. What effects, what impressions did you want to elicit in the viewer through this technique? Sand is a very malleable material that can take many shapes, and which can change and transform […]

  Interview with Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier, co-directors of Automne malade [Autumn Ill]  The film deals with, among other things, a student’s crisis of identity. Up to now, she has been defined, not to say devoured, by her social class and the demands of her family. How did you approach that aspect of the film, in terms of staging? Lola: Milène’s character is at […]

  Interview with Marion Desseigne Ravel, director of Fatiya  A film like Fatiya allows the viewer to witness the realities faced by young veiled women who are victims of prejudice. It is a reality that is not often seen in film, even today. Is there a particular audience that you wanted to reach through this film? I would like to reach everyone with this film, […]

Interview with Mohammad Houhou, director of The Ostrich Politic  How did you work on the rhyme scheme? After creating the concept of the film, I wrote down 2 lines of what the story would be. Then as I began writing the script I felt a narration would serve the story well. Poetry began to flow, I felt that it strengthened the comedic and […]

  Interview with June Balthazard, director of Le baiser du silure [The Kiss of the Catfish]  How do you happen to know about this type of fish, the silurid? Is the actor who plays the main character a fisherman in real life? I learned of the existence of this fish when I was shooting an previous film in the countryside of the Haut-Saôn department where […]

  Interview with Martina Scarpelli, director of Egg  Egg is interested in the mechanisms of anorexia, its rituals, in the isolation and obsessions it generates. Do you consider that the success of the film can be accounted for, apart from its technical qualities, by the fact that it deals with a difficult subject, which remains mainly unknown to most people? Probably yes, but mostly the way the […]

  Interview with Quentin Bailleux, director of Le Mans 1955  Traditionally, we associate animation more with the unreal, with the fantastical. To narrate a historic event in a realistic way is an interesting approach. Did you want to show that the animated short film can be used to treat any subject? Before all else, I see animation as a medium, a technique, and not […]

  An interview with Hong-Kai Liang, director of Soleil d’Hiver [Winter Sun]  What interested you in mixing the present with memories? It’s an impression that I got when confronting the aging of my parents. In my view, people don’t grow old step by step. And often, suddenly, we feel that the other has gotten old and it’s irreversible. Whereas before that instant, we were […]

  Interview with Jonas Schoelsing, director of Riviera  Why did you want to depict an elderly person and his activities? My intention of showing an old man’s routine is tied to my own questions about how I viewed my grandparents, and by extension elderly people in general. What do we really know, what do we know about their past, their history and what endures […]