A video interview with the member of the Lab Jury Juanita Onzaga, director, cinematographer and visual artist. Her previous short film “Our Song to War” was selected in the 2019 Lab Competition.
Interview with Caroline Cherrier, director of Horacio How did you come up with the idea for Horacio? My uncle worked with inmates, and he told me about a conversation he had with a convict, who summed up his act with these simple words: “She was yelling, she was yelling, and after… she wasn’t yelling any more”. That made an impression on me because it’s […]
Watch the interview with the Chilean filmmaker Paz Corona about her short film Santiago 1973-2019 selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L5 programme).
Interview with Paz Corona, director of Santiago 1973-2019 Why did you want to bear witness to the 2019 protests in Chile? About ten years ago a friend sent me an article about an unprecedented natural phenomenon that took place in the Atacama desert: the most arid desert in the world had bloomed. The cause of this improbable flowering was related to a natural […]
Watch the interview with the Chinese filmmaker Mei Liu about her short film Happy Ending selected in the 2021 International Competition (I4 programme).
Watch the interview with the Belgian filmmakers Noëlle Bastin and Baptiste Bogaert about their short film Traquer selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L1 programme).
Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Mélanie Matranga about her short film Jour & nuit selected in the 2021 National Competition (F5 programme).
Watch the interview with the Kazakh filmmaker Zhannat Alshanova about her short film History of Civilization selected in the 2021 International Competition (I9 programme).
An interview with Zsuzsanna Kreif and Borbala Zétényi, both directors of Limbo Limbo Travel Limbo Limbo Travel is a trip to a realm of fantasies. How did you get the inspiration? Z: The first idea of the film came after I’ve found an ad in a newspaper for a bus trip to Cuba, offered for women only. Then I visualized huge women hunting for small men in an exotic environment. […]
An interview with Tibor Bànòczki and Sarolta Szabo, directors of Leftover Leftover paints several portraits. Each one of them is linked to food. What made you think of this theme? Leftover is a fictional animated short film based on unusual personal stories with the concept of eating alone. ‘Eating’ is one of the most important and fundamental terms of life, but since the […]
