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  Interview with Sofia Alaoui, director of Qu’importe si les bêtes meurent [So What if the Goats Die] Why did you choose this title? The title of the film was obvious to me even before writing the screenplay, when I started becoming interested in the Universe and extraterrestrials. I found that there was something in these subjects that went beyond questions about material things, […]

  Interview with Antoine Bargain, director of Disciplinaires Where did you get the idea of making a film about this particular military prison that punishes disobedience and desertion? Sometimes, a chance meeting upsets your plans. That’s what happened to me when I found out about the history of this camp which before had been nothing more to me than a pleasant place where I […]

  An interview with Margot Barbé, director of Marie Boudin  Marie Boudin is an elegant short film that’s poetic and melancholic. What is its starting point? The film is first of all about a character, Marie Boudin. Coming home from school one evening, a friend and I were talking about names that made us laugh. Marie Boudin’s was still fresh in my mind. There […]

  Interview with Simon Guélat, director of Aline Why did you want the main subject of the film to be a hidden love affair? As in my first film, what interests me is how a character frees himself (or not) from the environment from which he came, his ability to invent something else, something unexpected. In Aline, the forbidden adds tension, it makes the […]

  Interview with Julien Silloray, director of Mortenol What made you want to make a film about revenge and can you see yourself making other films on the subject or that include it? When I started writing, I wanted to make a film in Mortenol with teenagers from the area and use a story based on an event that frequently takes place in Guadeloupe. […]

  Interview with Adrien Mérigeau, director of Genius Loci Tells us a little bit about how your film, Genius Loci, came to be. I began writing Genius Loci around 2013-2014, in Ireland while making Song of the Sea. My initial intention was to make a film about leaving behind, in the sense of leaving what we know and are familiar with for something unknown, where […]

  Interview with Gabrielle Stemmer, director of Clean With Me (After Dark) How did you discover the “world” of YouTube? I’ve been a heavy YouTube user for seven or eight years now – it’s TV for me. I’d say that from the beginning I’ve been watching stuff that’s 90% female-oriented. I started with videos on beauty, cooking, interior decorating, areas that I only have […]

  Interview with Raphaël Frydman, director of L’appartement [The Apartment] L’appartement is a documentary about the remnants of childhood, in which the director seems to be looking for traces of a bygone era. What can you tell us about the origin of this film? Childhood memories are very present in my life, as I believe is the case for many people. The visual memories of […]

  Interview with Agnès Patron, director of L’heure de l’ours [And Then the Bear] L’heure de l’ours is a wonderful animated short film on childhood, smoothly told and built around the figure of a bear. What is bear a metaphor for? The image of the bear is ambivalent: it’s strong and protecting as well as savage and violent. I initially made pencil drawings representing a […]

  Interview with Aurélie Reinhorn, director of Raout Pacha Could you explain your choice of title? I wanted something sonorous. I like it when a title doesn’t highlight a story, but brings a uniqueness that complements the work. I chose to associate two words that evoke the opposite of the film: A “raout” means a worldly party, while the characters of Varec and Clint […]