short film

Watch the interview with the Russian-German filmmaker Alexandra Brodski about her short film Joy selected in the 2022 International Competition (I3 programme).

Watch the interview with the English filmmaker Varun Raman about his short film Man or Tree selected in the 2022 Lab Competition.

Interview with Carlos Segundo, director of Sideral Have you ever dreamt of flying or going into space?I’ve personally never wanted to go to space. Perhaps I’m a bit curious. What attracts me to space is its immensity and infiniteness. In Sidéral, space appears as the real possibility of a spatio-temporal suspension. But of course, it also affects our imagination. Was the theme of […]

Interview with George-Alex Nagle, director of Mate What did you seek to explore through the relationship between John and Jack?For my co-writer Daniel Corboy and myself, the starting point of this film was questioning “what would my thirteen-year-old self-think of my thirty-year-old self?” Although both characters and their relationship to one another did evolve greatly throughout the writing process, and although we were […]

Interview with Vincent Le Port, director of La Marche de Paris à Brest [Walking from Paris to Brest] What led you to give this film an “old-fashioned” effect, bringing it closer to your inspiration Walking from Munich to Berlin by Oskar Fischinger, with this series of short shots interspersed with white cuts?Before filming, I ran lots of tests in both analog and digital, […]

Interview with Lila Pinell, director of Le roi David What gave you the urge to tell Shana’s story? Are some of the characters drawn from examples or experiences you have had in real life?I’ve wanted to tell Shana’s story since meeting the actress who plays her, Eva Huaut. I’ve known her since childhood and I’d lost touch with her for 7 years. When […]

Interview with Olive Nwosu, director of Egúngún [Masquerade] How was Egúngún born?Egúngún was born from a desire to investigate my own feelings about the idea of “Home”. As a wanderer, who has lived in many identities, this is a question I often grapple with: this sense of different lived lives, and possibilities of lives. How Fate takes us down one road – and […]

Interview with Martin Jauvat, director of Grand Paris Express What interested you about shooting on the work site of the Grand Paris Express?I live in Chelles, just to the east of Paris, where huge construction sites have colonized the town for several years. Same for the RER E line that I take just about every day to get to Paris: work sites are […]

Interview with Alejandro Alonso, director of Abisal [Abyssal] The ship-breaking yard appears to be the perfect filming location for Abisal, that deals with spirituality and ghostly presence. How did you come up with this idea? We discovered the ship-breaking yard by navigating through Google Earth. From a satellite view, Bahía Honda is full of small, rectangular-shaped spots. Understanding that they were destroyed ships in […]

Interview with Nicolas Panay, director of Le Point de reprise [Breakpoint] How interested are you in the topic of blue collar working conditions, and do you plan to make other films on this topic?Without mentioning it, I wanted to talk about my adoptive region, the Aube, which used to be the flagship of the textile industry and still has some beautiful remnants to […]