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Interview with Théo Jollet, director of Le Boug Doug [Meet Doug] Why did you want to play with the question of forbidden acts: theft, trafficking, manipulation and so on?The initial idea for the character Doug that came out of my discussions with my long-standing collaborators Martin Maire and Thomas Trichet (together we form the trio JTM) was to come up with a young […]

Interview with Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, director of The Headhunter’s Daughter Can you tell us a bit about your inspirations and the story behind The Headhunter’s Daughter? What inspired you the main character?My main inspiration for The Headhunter’s Daughter is the cultural landscape of my hometown of La Trinidad, Benguet and the greater Cordilleran region. Populated by diverse northern tribes (Igorots), the region […]

Interview with Peter Tscherkassky, director of Train Again What has inspired you for Train Again?I found that wonderful footage of trains leaving a tunnel and approaching the camera – another time something highly reminiscent of the Brothers Lumière film Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, which already had inspired my film L’Arrivée in 1997. From here it was a little step […]

Interview with Samir Karahoda, director of Pa Vend [Displaced] How did you decide on this topic and protagonist to make a film about?I have been familiar with this story since the first years after the war of Kosovo which is sometime in 2004-2005. My close friend who is one of the main characters had returned from Germany and he started playing again as […]

Interview with Valentin Stejskal, director of 5pm Seaside Where did the idea of 5pm Seaside come from?The film was built on a love story a truck driver shared with me. Fifteen years ago, he was in love with his buddy in the Greek military, but since then he wasn’t able to talk with anyone about it. He isolated himself to protect this memory […]

Interview with Nieto, director of Swallow the Universe How have you heard of Daichi’s work?I was in Japan shooting a documentary about pets of Tokyo. I visited a club of old ladies with pets “love pets of Tokyo” there I met this estrange old woman who wanted to join the club, she has not a pet, but she has a grandson she considers […]

Interview with Leonardo Martinelli, director of Fantasma Neon [Neon Phantom] What is your link to musicals and how did you come up with the idea of making Fantasma Neon a musical?I believe Brazil has some of the best composers in the world. The use of music in national cinema has always been keen, but musical cinema itself has never had many resources to […]

Interview with Sein Lyan Tun, director of Late Blooming in a Lonely Summer Day What was the importance of writing and creating a film like Late Blooming in a Lonely Summer Day that focuses on the desire a middle-aged woman feels for a younger coworker?As I have been working on women rights projects for years and I find that Myanmar is male dominated […]

Interview with Leonid Shmelkov, director of Ogurtsy [Cucumbers] Why were you interested in portraying a photographer from the world of fashion and luxury?For me it wasn’t important if it is specifically a photographer, or a film director, or a concept artist. I needed just someone from popular world, who works and depends on this world. I have several friends who are professionally involved […]

Interview with Omar Kamara, director of Mass Ave What did you aim at exploring through the difficult relationship between the father and his son?As a first-generation Sierra Leonean American, the differences between me and my immigrant father were always incredibly apparent to me. We didn’t view life or process emotions the same way. Due to this fact, my father and I were constantly […]