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  Interview with Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, director of Pauline asservie [Pauline Enslaved]  You mentioned that Fragments d’un discours amoureux by Roland Barthes was at the origin of this film. Can you tell us more about this? I’ve been wanting to do something based on this work for a long time. It is a very intelligent and accurate work with regards to love and the way […]

  Interview with Nicolas Boone, director of Las Cruces  Why did you want to shoot in Bogota? How did you learn about the Las Cruces neighborhood? Julien Naveau, producer at Noodles Production, offered me to make a film in Bogota. I went there to scout the location. We visited several neighborhoods in the city. When I discovered “Las Cruces”, I knew right away that […]

  Interview with Laurianne Escaffre and Yvonnick Muller, co-directors of Pile poil  Can you tell us about how Pile Poil, this extremely fair and formidably funny film, came into being? Yvonnick: Lauriane had spent a few days at a friend’s house, where her friend’s sister was preparing for her beautician certification… She was panicked, searching for a model for her practical exam. That’s when […]

  Interview with Sarah Van den Boom, director of Raymonde ou l’évasion verticale [Raymonde or the Vertical Escape]  Why did you place Raymonde in a rural environment, with gardens and nature? Because for me, Raymonde’s pastoral setting is part of the story, it is a context that is indissociable from the character. Raymonde is a woman of the countryside of yesteryear, she is not […]

  Interview with Marine Levéel, director of La traction des pôles [Magnetic Harvest]  Can you tell us how La traction des pôles came into being? I wanted to write an love story without words, an internal story, and to create a portrait of sensitive characters who hide their true feelings, a bit like in the countryside of my childhood. I also wanted the film […]

  Interview with Maxime Roy, director of Beautiful Loser  The film is about a recovering drug addict, Michel, about his fight to break free of the hold drugs have on him, and on his relationship to fatherhood. Was it your ambition to explore the question of marginality in the film, to focus on a world that is seldom seen on the screen? For three […]

  Interview with Yves Piat, director of Nefta Football Club  Why did you want to film in Nefta ? Initially, I wanted to film in Zagora, in the Moroccan desert, and that’s actually where the script began, on the Algerian border. I’m pretty familiar with the region around Zagora since I spent six days walking across the desert with a guide a few years […]

Discover the interview with the Italian codirectors Gilles Cuvelier about their short film (Fool Time) Job, selected in the National competition (F12 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École.

Discover the interview with the Italian codirectors Clarisse Hahn about their short film Mescaline, selected in the National competition (F3 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École.

Discover the interview with the Italian codirectors Jules Follet about his short film Waterfountain, selected in the National competition ( F10 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École.