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  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 Jonas Ulrich, director of Menschen Am Samstag [People on Saturday] Why did you want to portray daily life, on Saturdays, in Zurich? When I first saw Menschen am Sonntag (1930) I was struck by that film’s power to transport me back to a time and place which is long gone. I felt like I was witnessing the lives of those people […]

  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).

  Interview with Ostin Fam, director of Bình  What has drawn you to tell the story of an alien on a quest to rebuild his home? After almost 6 years in the States, I came home to layers of dust in the air. Undergoing a transformative economic boom, Vietnam is a big construction. My mom and brother had moved into an old apartment, 38 […]

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 Zachary Woods, director of David Is David based on anyone you know? Nope. My co-writer Brandon Gardner and I talked about lots of people we care about when we were writing. But there wasn’t one person in particular. What gave you the idea of setting the story at a therapist’s? My dad is a therapist and would sometimes get calls from […]

Watch the interview with the Japanese filmmaker Kosuke Okahara about his short film blue affair selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L4 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 […]