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  Interview with Loïc Espuche, director of Tombés du nid [Wide-Eyed]. How did you come up with the idea for Tombés du nid ? A year and a half ago, we encountered a duck and her ducklings with my buddy Adrien Fromenteil. We were going up the stairs of La cité de la BD in Angoulême. The ducklings were trapped in a square of dry […]

  Interview with Cecilia de Arce, director of Une sur trois. How did you come up with the idea for Une sur trois ? Une sur Trois was my final project at the 3iS school, where I obtained a degree in direction. I wanted to make a film that dedramatized abortion and that involved a tale of a strong friendship. My inspiration is in part […]

  Interview with David Coquard-Dassault, director of Peripheria In what way are you connected to the suburbs you describe in Peripheria? How did you decide where to shoot? Do your shots truly exist somewhere, or are they a product of your imagination? Peripheria is not a real city, it’s my imagined vision of a “commuter town”. It’s a film project – looking at the […]

  Interview with Natalie Beder, director of Des millions de larmes [Millions of Tears]  How did you come up with the idea for Des millions de larmes? Before starting on the film, I had already begun work on the script for a feature film that looked at grief and family bonds. As I was moving along in the writing process, my agent, Brigitte Descormiers, […]

  Interview with Méryl Fortunat Rossi, co-director of L’ours noir [Black Bear] How did you come up with the idea to write L’ours noir ? (Co-director) Xavier Seron’s sister came back from a trip to Quebec with a visitor’s guide from Forillon National Park, a park where you can see black bears. There really are strict rules to follow in this guide. The instructions from […]

  Interview with Julien Marsa and Lucie Prost, directors of Les rosiers grimpants [The Climbing Roses] In order to make Les rosiers grimpants did you become interested in the borders and threshholds between childhood and adulthood? Lucie: “Threshholds” don’t mean much to me. Some days I feel like an old woman who’s lived a full life; others I’m like a playful kid. I’m more […]

  Interview with Caroline Detournay and Paulina Pisarek, directors of Free Bullet How did you get into directing Free Bullet? Paulina Pisarek: It came right after I finished shooting my film I Don’t Touch the Gold. I was in the western part of Senegal, and after two months of shooting, I fell ill and dreamt of finding a quiet little island where I could […]

  Interview with Gabrielle Lissot, director of Jukai How did you learn about the story of Jukai and why were you interested in developing a film around that forest? I found out about the forest by chance through a documentary I watched on the internet. I was instantly taken by this almost mythological place where people’s unhappy fates merge with a very vital form […]

  Interview with Jeanik Barot, director of Le déserteur [The Deserter]  Why were you interested in adolescence? I think it’s a fascinating period. We can often be influenced by what we’re presented with, yet we also construct our own first great certainties. I like that paradox. Moroever, it’s a watershed moment; I think it determines not a few things that come after. My initial […]

  Interview with Jean-Luc Dang, director of Chalon First off, could you tell us where exactly Chalon is? It’s Chalon-sur-Saône, near Lyon. There are several Chalons, so the choice of title was also intentionally ambiguous. My story could very well have taken place somehwere else… How long did you live in Chalon and how long has it been since you left? I was born […]