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Interview with Maxence Voiseux, director of Elle est des nôtres Why did you choose livestock farming as the context for the story? Are you familiar with it? Or the region?   The story takes place among livestock merchants whom I know something about for having made a documentary about them. My background is in documentaries and I make films in the north of France, in […]

Interview with Jon Vatne, director of Motvind [Headwind] I have read that Motvind was written and shot during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. What was the starting point of the film? Was it necessary for you to remain creative during that moment?Yes. Me and the writer of the film, Anna Lian, was working on a totally different documentary together. She […]

Interview with Nans Laborde-Jourdàa, director of Léo la nuit [Léo by Night] Where did you come up with the idea for Léo la nuit?I wanted to show something about my life and the lives of people I hold dear. The feeling of material and emotional instability that we juggle with flair on a daily basis. A man walking on the crest excels in […]

Watch the interview with the Swiss filmmaker Pierre Schlesser about his short film L’Huile et le Fer selected in the 2022 Lab Competition.

Watch the interview with the Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Segundo about his short film Sideral selected in the 2022 National Competition.

Interview with Jean-Baptiste Alazard, director of Saint Jean-Baptiste [Saint John the Baptist] Where do the film’s images come from? Can you tell us more about the local festivals?The film is composed of images from two “sources”. There are shots that I took myself, from a kind of journal that I’ve kept for the last ten years, or forgotten drafts. I filmed these shots […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Théo Jollet about his short film Le Boug Doug selected in the 2022 Lab Competition.

Interview with Julien Gaspar-Oliveri, director of Marianne How did your desire to make this film come about?I would like to specify that the scenario is by Julie Debiton. I am not the author of this film which is something I’ve never tried before in all my previous work. Marianne was commissioned to be part of a collection for France Télévision with female leads. […]

Interview with Danil Ivanov, director of Holodno [It’s Cold] What has inspired you to shoot Holodno?On YouTube, I found a video where a former police officer was telling the story of how he and his partner, in his youth, were carrying the corpse of a fisherman on New Year’s Eve. The buses didn’t run and they had to pick up some passengers from […]

Interview with Lotfi Achour, director of Angle mort [Blind Spot] Why did you want to present this story using a first-person testimonial?All the details mentioned in the film are real facts that I was able to corroborate in several ways: the trial, witness accounts from the victims and the family, police reports, the judicial order… The more I dug around and went deeper, […]