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Interview with Fabián León López, director of Pitbull  Firstly, can you explain the title?In recent years, the pitbull dog race has been used by their owners to show strength. It has become a mask to a very simplistic manhood which is now falling to pieces. Can you tell us about what you wanted to explore through this relationship? Between man and woman, and […]

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 […]

Interview with Enrique Buleo, director of Las Visitantes What made you want these ladies’ story?  Were they inspired from people in your life? In my village, most of the retired people that usually go to guided tours are women and many of them are widows. Widows are very common here (and maybe everywhere) and I’ve always thought that they really begin to live when […]

Interview with Darcy Prendergast, director of Strange Beasts What’s your relation to Prenda? I suppose that was the starting point for wanting to tell this story?   Prenda is my animal-obsessed father, who at 17 years old worked as a big cat keeper at the Bacchus Marsh Lion and Tiger Safari – a popular tourist destination in an incredibly small Australian town. I’d long tried to find the right format for this […]

Interview with Vincent René-Lortie, director of Invincible   Why did you decide to use the story of Marc-Antoine as the subject of your film, Invincible? The synopsis states that the film is based on a true story. Can you say a bit about that? Invincible is directly inspired by the story of my childhood friend Marc-Antoine Bernier who died at the age of fourteen […]

Interview with Ilja Rautsi, director of Night of the Living Dicks The film tackles the question of what toxic masculinity and rape culture are. What’s the audience reaction been like?So far so good, I think – or to put it another way, maybe people who hate it just haven’t said anything to me! It seems to me that it’s been going down well […]

Interview with Mingyang Li, director of Sarira How was Sarira born? The reason for the birth is because I always wanted to shoot a film about religious themes. I like the solemnity and mystery it brings to people. So I wrote the first draft of Sarira‘s script. It was originally about a monk who got testicles cancer. For cancer to have testicles removed, I would like to explore how […]

Watch the interview with the Swiss filmmaker Arthur Jaquier about his short film Avec Calvin selected in the 2022 International Competition (I6 programme).

Interview with Sander Joon, director of Sierra What inspired you to make Sierra, an animation film that deals with the pressures parents can put on their children?After talking to my friends and acquaintances I found that the pressure from their parents to choose the “right career” is quite common. Especially for those who studied arts or film. Having the pressure from parents to […]

Interview with Tack Lee, director of Wasteland How was Wasteland born?After finishing film school, I quickly began thinking about my next film. The first one had dealt with a very personal story, so I wanted to orient the next one towards a more current story and one that was more connected to today’s society. That’s when I got this idea for the film’s […]