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  Interview with Theo Montoya, director of Son of Sodom How have you met Camilo Najar? I met Camilo 6 years ago at a party. When I saw him, he immediately caught my attention, he was a special guy, with his curly hair, and super thin. Besides that, he had an overwhelming personality. I will always remember a phrase that he told me “I […]

  Interview with Martin Jauvat, director of Le sang de la veine  Can you explain the film’s title? “Le sang de la veine” [literally, “blood of the vein”] is a term of affection you use for people you’re really close to, your best friends, people you consider your family, who you have special bonds of trust and tenderness with. Calling someone “blud” isn’t offhand, […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Dinah Ekchajzer about her short film Vas-y voir selected in the 2021 National Competition (F9 programme).

  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 […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Julie Caty about her short film Normal selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L4 programme).

  Interview with Paul Bush, director of Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic At first, did you get the inspiration from the sight of materials, maybe accumulated, or from the line of thought? Since Furniture Poetry in 1999 I have been making replacement animation using multiple, similar-shaped, found objects. I wanted to animate plastic junk for a long time. Ten years ago I proposed it to a Chinese […]

  Interview with Maximilian Badier-Rosenthal, director of Malabar  How did Malabar come about? The idea came to me when I met Marcel Jacq, the actor in my previous short film Ông Ngoai. He had never acted before. It was pure chance when I passed in front of a cafe on my way to work. At the time, he agreed to play the role of […]

  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 […]

  Interview with Léo Bittencourt, director of Vagalumes [Fireflies] How did you get into the idea of shooting a public park by night? When we started the research about the construction of the park we decided to change the focus of the film. Parque do Flamengo, or simply Aterro do Flamengo, was one of the major public works to renovate the city center of […]

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Elie Girard about his short film Les mauvais garçons selected in the 2021 National Competition (F2 programme).