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  Interview with Benoit Blanc and Matthias Girbig, directors of Choulequec  How did you come up with the idea for Choulequec? The film is the result of a project for a show that we’ve had in the works for several years now. As with any show, developing it takes time, and finding the right financial partner in France with a mixed genre like this […]

Watch the interview with the Australian filmmaker Adrian Chiarella about his short film Dwarf Planet selected in the 2021 International Competition (I13 programme).

  Interview with Jannis Alexander Kiefer, director of Kollegen [Good German Work] What did you want to explore in the relationship between the woodworkers and the film crew? The woodworkers are representative of the locals living in the village where our film takes place. A young woman and an older man who have lived in their region since they were born and who are […]

  Interview with Phạm Ngọc Lân, director of The Unseen River How did you get into the idea of dealing with love affairs and feelings? Every August in the city I live in, bank swallows would appear in abundance. In the evenings, they would glide above the river surface while their chirping fill the air. Since ancient times, there have been beliefs about these […]

  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 French filmmaker Edmond Carrère about his short film Maximum moderne selected in the 2021 National Competition (F10 programme).

  Interview with Gabriel Böhmer, director of Push This Button If You Begin to Panic Which techniques did you use to create and animate these superimposed paper cuts? The film primarily employs a cutout technique. The characters, and sets, are all just little pieces of paper that have been cut out by hand. The film revolves around an MRI, which is a medical scan […]

Watch the interview with the Chinese filmmaker Mei Liu about her short film Happy Ending selected in the 2021 International Competition (I4 programme).