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  Interview with Dmitry Geller, director of Khoziayka mednoy gory [The Mistress of the Copper Mountain]  The synopsis mentions that the film is based on the Ural mining factory folklore. Can you tell us a bit about the specificity of this folklore? Ural is considered the biggest industrial zone in the world. Its development began in the 18-19 centuries. The people who worked in […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Nyima Cartier about her short film L’homme silencieux selected in the 2021 National Competition (F6 programme).

  Interview with Yohan Manca, director of Red star What motivated you to tell the story of Adel’s journey? Is his character based on a person you knew, or on a personal experience? I heard about the story of Djamel Chaar in 2013, a job seeker, a clown in his spare time, who immolated himself in front of an unemployment agency in Nantes. It’s […]

  Interview with Thanasis Tsimpinis, director of Escaping the Fragile Planet What drew you to this story that focuses on an encounter between two men just before the end of the world? Τhere are not quite as many boy-meets-boy (or girl-meets-girl) tales out there. And like in my previous short film Fawns, I like creating queer characters, although I choose to not necessarily focus […]

Watch the interview with the Colombian filmmaker Theo Montoya about his short film Son of Sodom selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L3 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Antoine Beauvois-Boetti about his short film Le cercle d’Ali selected in the 2021 National Competition (F4 programme).

  Interview with Mélanie Matranga, director of  Jour & Nuit Where did you get the idea for Jour & Nuit? Reading Virginia Woolf’s novel Night and Day, which, on the surface hasn’t got much to do with my story but which, more deeply, talks about frustrated desires and the difficulty of adapting to social conventions and the expectations of others and those we impose on ourselves. Why […]

  Interview with Jonas Ulrich, director of Menschen Am Samstag [People on Saturday] Why did you want to portray daily life, on Saturdays, in Zurich? When I first saw Menschen am Sonntag (1930) I was struck by that film’s power to transport me back to a time and place which is long gone. I felt like I was witnessing the lives of those people […]

  Interview with Mathilde Parquet, director of Trona Pinnacles What were the origins of Trona Pinnacles? The idea for this film came to me when I was thinking back on a trip I took with my family to the United States over 10 years ago. When I thought about this trip to the Californian desert, I had two very opposing feelings: on one hand, […]

Exceptional online masterclass with the Quebec filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée, hosted by Lebanese journalist Abla Kandalaft. This content is no longer available.