Interview with Katherine Propper, director of Birds How was Birds born?I wanted to make this film, in part, to explore my creative process. My last short film involved a local community of young people whom I spent time with and worked with to make a film about their world. Birds expands on that approach more deeply. This film is more improvised, more off-the-cuff […]
Interview with Lauriane Lagarde, director of Un corps brûlant [A Free Run] What interested you about the subject of romantic encounters and are you planning on making other films on the same theme?I was extremely desirous of making a physical film where bodies would be put to the test. This encounter has nothing natural about it. More than the personalities of these two […]
Interview with Jumana Issa and Flavio Luca Marano, directors of Es Muss [It Must] How was Es Muss born?On a roadtrip with plenty of time thinking about our mothers. Can you tell us a bit about Silvia’s character, and the way she decides to face adversity?She’s a person who never really stands up for herself, but at this day everything she has left […]
Interview with Anne-Sophie Bailly, director of La Ventrière [The Midwife] Why did you choose to use the Middle Ages to tell this story? And why set it in the Jura mountains?The Middle Ages is a very broad historical period, and is sometimes very caricatured. In the film, I depict the late Middle Ages, or even the early Renaissance, around 1600, and that’s a […]
Interview with Fan Sissoko, director of On the Surface Has animation always been an area of interest to you?I’ve always loved animation, as a child of course, but also as a grown up. It’s such a beautiful and fascinating process. But it hasn’t been part of my practice until On the Surface. It’s my first animated short. Your film explores difficult topics such […]
Watch the interview with the Chinese filmmaker Mei Liu about her short film Happy Ending selected in the 2021 International Competition (I4 programme).
