Interview with Alberto Vázquez, director of Homeless Home Why did you want to relate the appearance of the characters to famous mystical figures (sorceress, ghost, devil, etc.)? I liked the idea of working with witches, ogres, orcs and wizards to delve into current social issues, because although the protagonists of the short film are monsters, their problems are very human: economic crisis, depopulation, […]
Interview with Bastien Dubois, director of Souvenir Souvenir What was your thought process over the years about the desire or need to address this topic, which touches your inner circle as well as the narrative of National History? Hello, so first of all thank you for this interview and thank you for allowing our films to be seen at this time! It’s a […]
Interview with Chia-Hua Chin, director of Lucky Draw What motivated you to explore this story and give it the backdrop of Taiwan’s reintroduced death penalty? In 2010, Taiwan Minister of Justice, Tseng Yung-fu, demanded the reinstatement of the death penalty which had been suspend for four years. One of the senior bailiffs who was in charge of the mission suddenly decided to retire. […]
Interview with Theo Montoya, director of Son of Sodom How have you met Camilo Najar? I met Camilo 6 years ago at a party. When I saw him, he immediately caught my attention, he was a special guy, with his curly hair, and super thin. Besides that, he had an overwhelming personality. I will always remember a phrase that he told me “I […]
Interview with Martin Jauvat, director of Le sang de la veine Can you explain the film’s title? “Le sang de la veine” [literally, “blood of the vein”] is a term of affection you use for people you’re really close to, your best friends, people you consider your family, who you have special bonds of trust and tenderness with. Calling someone “blud” isn’t offhand, […]
Interview with Öykü Orhan, director of Paydos [Break-Off] What has drawn you to the story of this mother struggling to feed her family? First of all, I should say that I am very happy that Paydos is shown at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival because Paydos is very important for me. It is my first film and story of Zeliha is a real […]
Interview with Paul Bush, director of Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic At first, did you get the inspiration from the sight of materials, maybe accumulated, or from the line of thought? Since Furniture Poetry in 1999 I have been making replacement animation using multiple, similar-shaped, found objects. I wanted to animate plastic junk for a long time. Ten years ago I proposed it to a Chinese […]
Interview with Maximilian Badier-Rosenthal, director of Malabar How did Malabar come about? The idea came to me when I met Marcel Jacq, the actor in my previous short film Ông Ngoai. He had never acted before. It was pure chance when I passed in front of a cafe on my way to work. At the time, he agreed to play the role of […]