Interview with Emma Qian Xu and Leopold Dewolf, directors of Nantong Nights What was the starting point for Nantong Nights? Emma: Nantong Nights came about from my desire to make a film about my hometown of Nantong and the way it’s changed. My town, like many Chinese cities, has changed dramatically over the years. When I go back there, it’s always a bit […]
Interview with Alexe Poukine, director of Palma Can you explain your choice of title? During the preparatory stages and the shooting of the film, the project was called Kiki, after the class mascot. The film was written as a tragi-comedy, but the project went through a transformation as time went on. At the end of editing, we realized that the original title didn’t […]
Interview with Anastasiia Ksenofontova, director of Fabrichnaya etnografiya [Ethnography of Factories] Fabrichnaya etnografiya shows the unseen and the unknown: the daily life of the workers of a factory in Russia. What is it that has drawn you to do a documentary on this subject? It’s quite simple. The opportunity presented itself. How did you decide which images to use to illustrate the subject? I […]
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 Siiri Halko, director of Haikara How would you introduce the film to somebody who hasn’t seen it? Haikara is an absurd yet realistic film about the troubles of trying to find the right way of saying goodbye. What did you wish to explore through the relationship between Veikka and his father Veikka and Kari have a kind of relationship in which […]