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  An interview with Morgan Simon, director of Essaie de mourir jeune [Try to Die Young]  What inspired you to make Try to Die Young? Birthdays are hardly ever what we would like them to be. They are the stuff of nightmares and bad memories. They make us think of the time that has passed, and that we discover lost during the course of […]

  An interview with Mathieu Z’Graggen, director of Think Big  What inspired you to make the film Think Big? Did you do research on runaways and missing teenagers, or did you base the film on real events? The film takes place in a sleepy little village in the south of Alsace next to a big Franco-Swiss airport. It happens to be the town where […]

  An interview with Nicolas Boone, director of Hillbrow    Hillbrow begins with an attack in the street where it seems that the person being attacked refuses to retaliate. Why did you decide to begin the film with this sequence? To follow this person on his urban path gives a good overview of the Hillbrow neighborhood. We see guarded bus stops, churches, chickens, guys […]

  An interview with Brahim Fritah, director of Les fantômes de l’usine (Ghosts in the Factory)  First of all, is Ghosts in the Factory based on a (or several) true story/stories? Is the script read by the voice-over an actual testimonial? Ghosts in the Factory is partly autobiographical. The script read by the voice-over is inspired by the memories and personal reflections I have […]

  An interview with Basile Doganis, director of La journée d’appel    Journée d’appel, a reference to the Service National des Journées Défense et Citoyenneté, takes us inside one of these days of obligatory military service which proves to be quite funny. Is it totally imagined, or did you or someone close to you really experience some of the situations described in the film? […]

  An interview with Julien Hallard, director of People are Strange    Have you ever taken a guided tour of a cemetery or followed a group of fans gathering at the grave of a celebrity? I had never gone to Jim Morrison’s grave even though I love to wander around the alleys of Père-Lachaise. Pilgrimages just aren’t my thing. When I had the idea […]

  An interview with Scott Noblet, director of Sécheur  What inspired you to make Sécheur? Is it based on real events? The film is freely inspired by a short story by James Joyce, from his collection Dubliners, that I reworked in telling the story of two old friends who find themselves stuck together in the space of a day. Without being based on real […]

  An interview with Mathilde Nègre, director of Mon bras armé [My Armed Arm]  Why did you decide to animate My Armed Arm instead of using real actors? I came up with the scenario of My Armed Arm at the same time that I came up with the drawings. The film was written by selecting and staging animated shots at first, then the soundtrack […]

  An interview with Jeanne Paturle and Cécile Rousset, directors of Le COD et le coquelicot    Le COD et le Coquelicot [The Predicate and the Poppy] mixes animated sequences with filmed characters. Were these latter actors, or did you film in a real setting? The characters were filmed in a real setting: we filmed the classroom scenes and the winter school trip on […]

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