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Watch the interview with the English filmmaker Lorna Nickson Brown about her short film Ned & Me selected in the 2021 International Competition (I9 programme).

  Interview with Mélanie Matranga, director of  Jour & Nuit Where did you get the idea for Jour & Nuit? Reading Virginia Woolf’s novel Night and Day, which, on the surface hasn’t got much to do with my story but which, more deeply, talks about frustrated desires and the difficulty of adapting to social conventions and the expectations of others and those we impose on ourselves. Why […]

  Interview with Mathilde Parquet, director of Trona Pinnacles What were the origins of Trona Pinnacles? The idea for this film came to me when I was thinking back on a trip I took with my family to the United States over 10 years ago. When I thought about this trip to the Californian desert, I had two very opposing feelings: on one hand, […]

Watch the interview with the Hungarian filmmaker Anna Szöllősi about her short film Helfer selected in the 2021 International Competition (I13 programme).

Watch the interview with the French-Swiss filmmaker Alice Fargier about her short film Le temps d’une nuit selected in the 2021 National Competition (F4 programme).

  Interview with Margaux Elouagari, director of Princesses Can you explain the title? What I like most about the title is its paradoxical side. In their minds, Lindsay and Leslie are definitely princesses or they want to become them, but in reality they’re not princesses for anyone else, not their family nor the boys they hang out with, whether friends or potential boyfriends. No […]

  Interview with Joanna Quinn and Les Mills, director and writer of Affairs of the Art Beryl has featured in a number of your films. Can you tell us a bit more about her? Who was the inspiration for her character? How has Beryl’s character evolved since we first met her? Beryl started life as a very one-dimensional character in a comic strip that […]

Watch the interview with the Croatian filmmaker Kata Gugić about her short film Cockpera selected in the 2021 International Competition (I2 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmakers Audrey Jean-Baptiste et Maxime Jean-Baptiste about their short film Écoutez le battement de nos images selected in the 2021 National Competition (F12 programme).

  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 […]