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  Interview with Théodore Sanchez, director of Du plomb pour les bêtes (Lead For the Animals)    How did you come up with the idea for your film? First and foremost, I wanted to make a film about a scapegoat. My interest began to develop after the attacks in January 2015 amidst the extremely tense atmosphere they generated. Obviously, the perpetrators needed to found, […]

  Interview with Aude Léa Rapin, director of Que vive l’Empereur (Long Live the Emperor)    How did you come up with the idea for your film? A Belgian friend showed me some images of the reenactment that takes place every year at Waterloo, near Brussels. I was immediately fascinated by this incarnation, or rather reincarnation, of history embodied by people from all walks […]

  Interview with Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire, Théophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon and Lucas Navarro, directors of Garden Party    What inspired you to make Garden Party ? We are all animal enthusiasts in general. And we chose to base the film on a film Gabriel made a few years ago, a story about two toads who chase a fly in a stream. We wanted […]

  Interview with Ladj Ly, director of Les misérables (The Miserables)    “Gavroche in the thicket”: the parallel between the young protagonists of your film and the character in Victor Hugo, was that the starting point? Yes, of course. I wanted to deal with young people in “tough neighborhoods”. They have been completely abandoned by our elite and left to fend for themselves from […]

  Interview with Wei Hu, director of Ce qui nous éloigne (What Separates Us)    Why did you want to depict such a strong bond in your film? I let instinct and my own sensibilities play a large part in the choice of my topics. One thing that is special about cinema is the access it gives to the promiscuousness of being. That is […]

  Interview with Guillaume Orignac, director of Cinq nuits (Five Nights)   Why were you interested in the grieving period? It wasn’t grief so much that interested me, but the way all of daily life’s affairs are put on hold for people who are most affected by the loss of a loved one. The starting point of the film is fed by anxieties, large […]

  Interview with Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, directors of Le bruit du gris [The Sound of Grey]    What techniques did you use to develop the animation? Is it exclusively stop motion? Yes, it’s mainly stop motion, but there’s also animated painting for the fresco on the scenery.  Did you make the film as part of a specific project that needed to respect […]

  Interview with Alexandru Petru Badelita, director of I Made You, I Kill You  I Made You, I Kill You is about the disillusions and misunderstandings of a parent-child relationship. Why did you decide to tackle this failure? I firmly believe that a lot of how we are as human beings comes from the relationship with our parents or our mother/father figures if we […]

  Interview with Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun, director of Rase campagne   How did you choose the shooting location? The Monts d’Arrée are a very particular place known to everyone in Finistere. It’s a place that feels out of time. With its ochre colors and its ancient mountains with their distinctive rocks, it’s a place for hiking and escape. I have often gone roaming there. I […]