Clermont FF - myDylarama

Interview with Gabriel González Acosta, director of Concertina
28 January, by brasserieducourt.com
Concertina is an interlocking narrative film that jumps between parallel realities as two sets of brothers discuss their dreams of one another. The film explores themes of ecology, family, and labor using magical realism as a narrative device to create dark, ethereal worlds that offer a glimpse into the power of the physical realm over our collective psyche. Why were you interested into brotherhood? Do you have further projects in mind on this theme? I was interested in brotherhood (...)
Interview with Anne-Sophie Bailly, director of La Ventrière [The Midwife]
28 January, by brasserieducourt.com
In the French Jura mountains, at the end of fictitious Middle Ages, Else is an herbalist and a midwife. With Nicole, her young apprentice, they are disturbed during their daily practice: a stranger riding a horse demands to gather all the women of the village in its small church. Why did you choose to use the Middle Ages to tell this story? And why set it in the Jura mountains? The Middle Ages is a very broad historical period, and is sometimes very caricatured. In the film, I depict the (...)
Interview with Olivier Bayu Gandrille, director of TNT
28 January, by Abla Kandalaft, brasserieducourt.com
During the 2005 French riots, four young students from the banlieu on the outskirts of Paris hear about an old urban legend: that of Paupaul, the rapist of the woods, who would attack young people from poor neighborhoods to keep them away from rich ones. As the All Saints’ Day vacations loom, they set themselves a challenge: to go through the woods to check out the existence of the legend. Why did you choose to set the story during the 2005 riots? It wasn’t so much a choice as a desire to (...)
Interview with Steven Fraser, director of Prosopagnosia
26 January, by brasserieducourt.com, Clotilde
Filmmaker Steven Fraser lives with prosopagnosia, otherwise known as ‘face blindness’, which means he can’t remember or recognize faces. In this film he uses animation to convey what this means to him. How did you get to know prosopagnosia? Several years ago, I was going through the diagnosis process for autism. At this time, I was speaking to different doctors and specialists who asked my many questions on how I interact with people. During this time, they realised it was a possibility (...)
Interview with Lila Pinell, director of Le roi David
25 January, by Abla Kandalaft, brasserieducourt.com
Shana is looking for a job, she needs cash to leave France and her wrong crowd. But the past she’s looking to forget is never far. Besides, does she really want to put it behind her? 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 we met again, she (...)
Interview with Carlos Segundo, director of Sideral
25 January, by brasserieducourt.com, Elise Loiseau
In Natal, on the Brazilian coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with children near the space center, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons. 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 (...)
Interview with Marthe Sebille director of Que La Bete Monte
24 January, by Abla Kandalaft, brasserieducourt.com
Where did you get the idea for this rather supernatural adventure? This project has been in development for a very long time. It arose from life experience and my feminist and ecological convictions. A few years ago, I found myself stuck in a train in the middle of the countryside, and I had my driving license exam early the next morning. After waiting for 4 hours, a young man in a hurry decided to walk to the next village. Many of us followed him. The group quickly separated from us, and (...)
Interview with Morad Mostafa, director of Khadiga
20 January, by Abla Kandalaft, brasserieducourt.com
Khadiga, a young mother of 18 lives alone with her baby after her husband left for work in a remote city; in an ordinary day she makes her way through the hustle of Cairo streets to do some visits where she feels uncomfortable with the surroundings. Is Khadiga based on someone you know? What motivated you to tell her story? Khadiga is a character we all know, and she exists in all societies in different forms and ways. What prompted me to tell this story is that it is a story that I’d (...)
Interview with Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
7 June 2021, by Abla Kandalaft, brasserieducourt.com, Clotilde
In light of Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s participation at this year’s Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, we thought we’d publish this interview we conducted with her in collaboration with the Brasserie du Court at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, where her short Pauline Asservie was in competition. A quirky, touching yet highly amusing little film that encapsulated the skills Charline is now deploying fully in her most recent (...)
Interview with Audrey Jean-Baptiste and Maxime Jean-Baptiste, codirectors of Écoutez le battement de nos images
12 April 2021, by Clotilde
Is your film mainly an account that you want handed down? How did you construct the voice-over? The film is essentially tied to my desire to breathe life back into the things that disappeared when the Guiana Space Centre was set up in Kourou in the 60s. To script the voice-over, we dipped into our close networks. For example, our father’s , who’s from Guiana himself. So we were able to exchange ideas in a trusting atmosphere, which helped elicit memories. We also met people whose families’ (...)