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Interview with Julie Ecoffey, director of But What Does It Mean? Where did you come up with the idea for these two characters? My crew. I often find the banal conversations of those around me absurd and very funny, so I wanted to represent characters who were realistic in the way they spoke.   Why do they speak in English? Why the “twist”?  I used English […]

Interview with Cécile Mille, director of Cui cui cui  Why did you choose this subject? The desire to have children is a subject that I had to deal with for quite a few years. Later on, I saw others going through the same ordeal and I bore the guilt of those who succeeded. The birth of Cui cui cui comes from the desire to […]

Interview with Eli Jean Tahchi, director of Des voisins dans ma cour  What can you say about the wall that separates Mont-Royal, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Montreal, from Parc-Extensions, a neighborhood where immigrants and some of the city’s poorest people live? Since 1960, a fence made of chain links and steel rods, lining the Boulevard de l’Acadie—two meters high, 1.6 kilometers long, […]

Watch the interview with the Italian filmmaker Adriano Valerio about his short film Calcutta 8:40am selected in the 2023 National Competition (F2 programme).

Watch the interview with the Vietnamian filmmaker Vũ Nguyễn Nam Khuê about his short film A Lost Astronaut And a City of Footprints selected in the 2023 International Competition (I12 programme).

Watch the interview with the Algerian filmmaker Amira Louadah about her short film L’Arche selected in the 2023 Lab Competition (L2 programme).

Interview with Shuli Huang, director of Will You Look at Me  How did the inspiration come about for Will You Look at Me? How much of the footage did you shoot on purpose? Did you work on the soliloquy first or after selecting footage?After I returned to China from New York during the pandemic, I bought a super 8mm camera. I brought it […]

Watch the interview with the Irish filmmaker Jamie O’Rourke about his short film Scrap selected in the 2023 International Competition (I1 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Aude N’Guessan Forget about her short film Anansi selected in the 2023 National Competition (F3 programme).

Interview with Trinidad Plass, Titouan Tillier and Isaac Wenzek, co-directors of Ressources humaines  What was the starting point for the inspiration of the film? Are you particularly fond of certain objects?  We based the film around the theme “recycle what is not of use” and we thought that for once, it would be interesting if the material to be recycled were humans. This led […]