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Interview with Maythem Ridha, director of Ali and His Miracle Sheep How did you come across Ali and learn about his fate?In 2018, I was shooting in Iraq an ongoing film and photography passion project called “Tear Maker”. I came across many people leading sheep to sacrifice for the souls of their deceased relatives. I photographed them and those images haunted me. I […]

Watch the interview with the Belgian filmmaker Olivier Smolders about his short film Masques selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L1 programme).

Watch the interview with the Mexican filmmaker Gabriel González Acosta about his short film Concertina selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L5 programme).

Interview with Ihsen Kammoun, director of Road to El Kef The film explores quite complex family issues; no mean feat for a film that’s under half an hour. What did you want to explore through these relationships? One of the things I felt strongly about was that I wanted this film to have its own time to tell its story for as long as […]

Interview with Casper Kjeldsen, director of Det Er i Jorden [In the Soil] Is thriller your favorite genre to direct?I don’t have a favorite genre to direct but every time I make a film I always gravitate towards the horrific and terrifying. I think that the cinematic language of these genres is very maximalist and made to confront and withhold the audience in […]

Interview with Sébastien Betbeder, director of Planète triste [Planet Gloom] How did you end up meeting the characters in Planète triste? What did they bring to the writing of the script?Planète triste arose from a commission from the city of Ivry and the Le Luxy movie theater through Jean-Jacques Ruttner (thanks also to the production support of Envie de Tempête). In the past, […]

Interview with Ian Barling, director of Safe How was Safe born? What interested you in this father and son relationship?Safe was conceived out of a desire to tell a story concerning my hometown and the people that make it up. I was also interested in exploring a father/son relationship as a sort of re-imaging or hypothetical exploration of the fractured connection that I […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Clémence Le Gall about her short film Le Chant du feu selected in the 2022 National Competition (F2 programme).

Interview with Geordy Couturiau, director of La Flûte enchantée [The Magic Flute] Tell us a bit about Momo and Arnaud. Are they based on people you know in real life? The character Arnaud gets his name from a close friend of mine, Arnaud Orengue, without whom the film would not be what it is. He was with us from the very beginning up to […]

Interview with Olivier Smolders, director of Masques [Masks] How much were you interested by the issue of filiation and transmission for this film?My cinematic desires are intuitive, sensorial, linked to people and objects that I want to film. It is only whilst the work is in progress that I discover along the way roughly « what it is about ». I have been wanting to […]