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  Interview with Ibrahim Handal, director of Bethlehem 2001 Why did you choose to revisit this – I presume traumatic – event as a short film? Actually, I am still trying to understand what I have done and why. However, I have held in these memories and feelings throughout these years with the purpose of sharing them in a short film. Other filmmakers might […]

  Interview with Joanne Rakotoarisoa, director of Nous ne sommes pas encore morts [We Are Not Dead Yet] Why were you interested in depicting a group of young post-teens just getting ready to embark on their adult lives? I met the group of kids who are the basis for the film when I was still a student. I was travelling to Ukraine, a country […]

  Interview with Ariq Khan, director of Transit  What motivated you to tell this story? Do many people find themselves in this “transit” situation in Bangladesh? I have always wanted my films to be about the common man, the type of characters whose stories are not as often seen in modern cinema. Blended with that is migration, which I feel is a very important […]

  Interview with Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, director of  Maalbeek  Did you meet Sabine by chance, or did you look for her subsequent to the media coverage of her amnesia?  I met Sabine through the Life4Brussels association because I was looking to meet people who had been affected in one way or the other by the bombing. On the morning of March 22, I was supposed to take the subway […]

  Interview with Alexis Hellot, director of Perles What inspired you to make Perles, and why did you choose to make it a thriller? In the beginning, there was an image of an abandoned car under a tree in a sort of clearing. There is a woman inside. A man comes to see her. Everything started from that. The issue of the Roma slums […]

Watch the interview with the Swiss filmmaker Gabriel Böhmer about his short film Push This Button If You Begin to Panic selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L5 programme).

  Interview with Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzch, directors of Masel Tov Cocktail The short deals with identity and stereotypes. What has drawn you to make a film about this issue? This project was the third-year project in film school. Every film student has heard the phrase “Make something of your own life reality.” Hence, it all started with this idea: What does it […]

  Interview with Emma Qian Xu and Leopold Dewolf, directors of Nantong Nights What was the starting point for Nantong Nights? Emma: Nantong Nights came about from my desire to make a film about my hometown of Nantong and the way it’s changed. My town, like many Chinese cities, has changed dramatically over the years. When I go back there, it’s always a bit […]

  Interview with Alexe Poukine, director of Palma Can you explain your choice of title? During the preparatory stages and the shooting of the film, the project was called Kiki, after the class mascot. The film was written as a tragi-comedy, but the project went through a transformation as time went on. At the end of editing, we realized that the original title didn’t […]

  Interview with Anastasiia Ksenofontova, director of Fabrichnaya etnografiya [Ethnography of Factories] Fabrichnaya etnografiya shows the unseen and the unknown: the daily life of the workers of a factory in Russia. What is it that has drawn you to do a documentary on this subject? It’s quite simple. The opportunity presented itself. How did you decide which images to use to illustrate the subject? I […]