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Interview with Pierre Menahem, director of Le Feu au lac [Fire at the Lake] How did you come up with the idea for Le Feu au lac?  At the outset, I was thinking of the high mountain terrain that I know very well, a landscape in the widest sense: a valley, its villages, its inhabitants, the country folk and secondary residents, like myself. A […]

Interview with Hekuran Isufi, director of I Kemi Varros Baballarët I Kemi Varros Baballarët deals with Dardan’s return  from France to Kosovo to visit his father’s grave. What were you interested in exploring with a film that talks about exile and mourning?  The film talks about a country that’s still marked by its past, by war – by the past that still weighs down […]

Interview with Antoine Giorgini, director of Bonne soirée [Good Evening] How did you come up with the idea for this short film? This initial situation (a migrant taking shelter in a basement) happened to people I know who live on the coast. From there, I decided to transform this situation and turn it into a prank.  Did you want to explore issues related to the […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmakers Caroline Brami and Frédéric Bas about their short film L’Inspection selected in the 2022 National Competition (F9 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Amélie Bonnin about her short film Partir un jour selected in the 2022 National Competition (F11 programme).

Watch the interview with the Chinese co-director Yuanqing Cai about the short film Coffin selected in the 2021 National Competition (F9 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Maxence Voiseux about his short film Tu seras un ultra selected in the 2021 National Competition (F7 programme).

Watch the interview with the Brazilian filmmaker Jean Costa about his short film Gare aux coquins selected in the 2021 National Competition (F4 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Nicolas Birkenstock about his short film Ourse selected in the 2021 National Competition (F11 programme).

Watch the interview with the Uruguayan filmmaker Matías Ganz about his short film Martin est tombé d’un toit selected in the 2021 National Competition (F1 programme).