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  An interview with Hubert Charuel, director of K-Nada    How did you come up with the idea for these two characters who seem completely different, and yet who also seem incapable of moving forward without the other? The basis for K-Nada was really and truly the desire to make a film for these two people. My co-scriptwriter and I wanted to write a […]

  An interview with Giacomo Abbruzzese, director of Stella Maris    At what moment during the process of making this film did you decide on Italy as the setting? Could it have taken place elsewhere? The film was inspired from the image of the arrival of a Madonna statue on a beach in Polignano a Mare, in the Apulia region. It is also a […]

  An interview with Jenny Teng, director of Le plongeon du homard [The Lobster’s Dive]    What inspired you to make The Lobster’s Dive? Why did you choose that title? The idea came to me from a Zen tale. A Chinese emperor offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to he who can find a vase at the bottom of a lake. Thousands of suitors […]

  An interview with Lisa Reboulleau, director of Renée R. Lettres retrouvées  How did you work to make Renée R. Lettres retrouvées? With regard to the images, were they a mixture of real images of different origin, or were they all from the same couple/family? The film is composed solely of archive film from the 1950s and ‘60s. They are from the time of […]

  Interview with Tomasz Siwinski, director of Niebieski Pokój  How did you get into directing Niebieski Pokój? Is there a part of documentary in the text or is it only fiction? A few years ago I met Ron Dyens from Sacrebleu Productions at the Animation Film Festival in Zagreb. He liked my previous graduation film, and he was willing to do something new with […]

  An interview with Guillaume Rieu, director of  Tarim le Brave contre les Mille et Un Effets [Tarim the Brave Versus the Thousand and One Effects]  Tarim le Brave contre les Mille et Un Effets is a comedy made up of satirical sketches that deal with the filmmaking process. Why did you choose to use the Thousand and One Nights genre of oriental adventure […]

  An interview with Bertrand Mandico, director of Notre Dame des Hormones [Our Lady of Hormones]  Had you already dealt with filial relationships in your earlier films? Yes, Boro in the Box also dealt with filial relationships… In that film, there was a pregnant mother who throws herself into an abyss to rid herself of the child; the same child (who survived) who fantasizes about her mother being physically […]

  An interview with Akihiro Hata, director of Les Invisibles  How did you come up with the idea of making a film about a nuclear reactor? Do you have a particular connection with the subject? When I was living in Paris, I saw the earthquake that devastated my native Japan, in Tōhoku. Obviously, I was quite shaken by the event. I spent a lot […]

  An interview with Christopher Radcliff, director of Jonathan’s Chest  How did you get into directing Jonathan’s Chest? The idea for Jonathan’s Chest came from some research I had been doing on true stories of missing children, and a sort of wave of paranoia and fear that swept the United States during the 1980s and beyond in which people became very scared that their […]

  An interview with Calvin Antoine Blandin, director of La chair de ma chère (Mimma)  In Mimma, your characters speak a language that I didn’t understand. Is it an existing language, or did you intentionally create distance by preventing us from understanding their speech? In Mimma, the characters speak an imaginary language. The goal was to support the universality of their words, and also […]