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Interview with Ian de la Rosa, director of Farrucas What interested you in the life of the Moroccan-Spanish community in Spain?It is something I have always been close to, because of where I grew up, in the south of Spain, one of the gateways for the migrant community, especially from North Africa. I was also very interested in the Andalusian past, and I […]

Watch the interview with the Mexican filmmaker José Permar about his short film Ir y Volver selected in the 2022 International Competition (I3 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Victor Boulenger about his short film Sourdingue selected in the 2022 National Competition (F3 programme).

Interview with Pierre Schlesser, director of L’Huile et le Fer [Iron and Oil] What interested you about the machine noises and gestural movements shown in the film?First off, I wanted to talk about bodies exhausted from labor. So I lingered on repetitive movements that wear you out. And then, I think it’s the philosopher Giorgio Agamben who says of films that they’re “the […]

Watch the interview with the Italian filmmaker Francesco Romano about his short film Ambasciatori selected in the 2022 International Competition (I8 programme).

Interview with Marian Freistühler, director of Die Geheimnisvollen Inseln [Islands in the City] Did the lockdowns and more generally the pandemic draw you to make a film that deals with the ideas of longing and loneliness?It may sound paradoxical, but what I observed during the first contact restrictions was the opposite of loneliness. There were a few weeks in Hamburg’s spring 2020 when […]

Interview with Victor Boulenger, director of Sourdingue (Deaf as a Post) What led you to make Sourdingue?Different ingredients:– Acquiring a hearing aid was an important purchase that I’ve had to make for a while now, in fact being hard of hearing is part of who I am.– Imagine that in addition to the strange typo in my name, my father was actually an […]

Watch the interview with the English filmmaker Varun Raman about his short film Man or Tree selected in the 2022 Lab Competition.

Interview with Carlos Segundo, director of Sideral Have you ever dreamt of flying or going into space?I’ve personally never wanted to go to space. Perhaps I’m a bit curious. What attracts me to space is its immensity and infiniteness. In Sidéral, space appears as the real possibility of a spatio-temporal suspension. But of course, it also affects our imagination. Was the theme of […]

Interview with George-Alex Nagle, director of Mate What did you seek to explore through the relationship between John and Jack?For my co-writer Daniel Corboy and myself, the starting point of this film was questioning “what would my thirteen-year-old self-think of my thirty-year-old self?” Although both characters and their relationship to one another did evolve greatly throughout the writing process, and although we were […]