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Interview with Binghan Lin, director of The Trapped Pig When and where did you film this short? What was the situation with Covid? I shot this short film in Cining, a city in Northwest China, in 2020 summer. In that time, the situation with Covid was not good, and many people and the government feared of losing control of the epidemic, and they did […]

Interview with Ting Chi-Wen , director of The Textual Way of Contemporary Dialogue How did you get the inspiration for The Textual Way of Contemporary Dialogue?Last year I read a book, The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. At the same time, I was also studying the image theory of Gilles Deleuze. I found that most of the dialogue in fictions is still traditionally […]

Interview with Hekuran Isufi, director of I Kemi Varros Baballarët I Kemi Varros Baballarët deals with Dardan’s return  from France to Kosovo to visit his father’s grave. What were you interested in exploring with a film that talks about exile and mourning?  The film talks about a country that’s still marked by its past, by war – by the past that still weighs down […]

Interview with Bilal Alkhatib, director of Palestine 87  The film is based on a true story. How did you hear about it? Why did you decide to tell it as a short film? This film tells a story from the 1987 Intifada; it is believed to be a true story. I heard about it from a taxi driver, although I embellish it for cinematic […]

Interview with Fabián León López, director of Pitbull  Firstly, can you explain the title?In recent years, the pitbull dog race has been used by their owners to show strength. It has become a mask to a very simplistic manhood which is now falling to pieces. Can you tell us about what you wanted to explore through this relationship? Between man and woman, and […]

Interview with Antoine Giorgini, director of Bonne soirée [Good Evening] How did you come up with the idea for this short film? This initial situation (a migrant taking shelter in a basement) happened to people I know who live on the coast. From there, I decided to transform this situation and turn it into a prank.  Did you want to explore issues related to the […]

Interview with Vincent René-Lortie, director of Invincible   Why did you decide to use the story of Marc-Antoine as the subject of your film, Invincible? The synopsis states that the film is based on a true story. Can you say a bit about that? Invincible is directly inspired by the story of my childhood friend Marc-Antoine Bernier who died at the age of fourteen […]

Watch the interview with the Brazilian-Canadian filmmaker Jorge Camarotti about his short film Ousmane selected in the 2022 International Competition (I7 programme).

Watch the interview with the Chinese filmmaker Yue Huang about his short film The Executioner (L’Exécuteur) selected in the 2022 International Competition (I6 programme).

Watch the interview with the Filipino filmmaker Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan about his short film The Headhunter’s Daughter selected in the 2022 International Competition (I3 programme).