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Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Marion Harlez Citti about her short film Ce n’est rien selected in the 2022 National Competition (F2 programme).

interview with Marine Levéel, director of L’Homme à la Mercedes pourpre How did you come up with the character Annie and what did you want to explore through her story and her relationship with her daughter?I came up with Annie through observing several people I know from generations that precede mine. By hanging out with them, I wanted to talk about the complexity […]

Interview with Boyoung Kim, director of A Guitar in the Bucket What is your link to guitars and to music?I’m very interested in sound and like music very much. If I hadn’t become an animation director, I think I might have become a musician. The reason I used a music instrument in this project was that I needed a tool that could express […]

Interview with Kate McMullen, director of Little Berlin Why were you interested in the Berlin wall at first?I started thinking about it in 2019, when Germany was celebrating 30 years since the fall of the Wall – but I needed a new angle. Doing some digging, I came across Mödlareuth, a sleepy farming village which was split in two by the Iron Curtain in 1946. […]

Interview with Sara Szymanska, director of Pięć Minut Starsza [Five Minutes Older] Pięć Minut Starsza deals with sisterhood and identity. What did you wish to explore in the relationship between the two sisters?I actually have a twin sister myself, and I always felt that this relationship shaped my identity in very specific ways. Me and Nadia are very close, we look similar, we […]

Interview with Špela Čadež, director of Steakhouse What was your inspiration for Steakhouse?I have always been interested in the phenomenon of interpersonal relationships. Psychological violence was one of the topics I had long wanted to explore. It’s something that seems so far, and then suddenly you realize you’re drowning in its vortex. Steakhouse is an emotionally evocative piece but is never didactic nor […]

Interview with Yoriko Mizushiri, director of Anxious Body How much is your creativity committed to the depiction of sensations and feelings? How did you work on this aspect for Anxious body specifically?I am not interested in giving a meaning or message through my work. Instead, I want to connect with the audience by expressing sensations and feelings that can be conveyed without a […]

Interview with Dania Bdeir, director of Warsha How did you come up with the character? Is he based on someone you know?In 2017, I was sitting on my balcony in Lebanon overlooking all of Beirut and I saw a man standing on top of one of the tallest construction cranes. I was afraid thinking the man was going to jump. It all looked […]

Interview with Diana Cam Van Nguyen, director of Love, Dad How much is Love, Dad autobiographical?A lot. It’s my story, my voice, my handwriting. How did you work on the letters’ incorporation to the animation? Are they original letters? Did you film yourself for the female character or is it an actress?Yes, the letters are the original ones. And I know from the […]

Interview with Dania Reymond-Boughenou, director of Constellation de la Rouguière [Constellation] Where did your desire to make a film about the Rouguière neighborhood in Marseille come from?That part of Marseille comes out of a very specific context: 1962 when Algeria gained its freedom. At that moment, the repatriates from the war became la Rouguière’s first inhabitants. Several waves of immigration followed, including many […]