Shorts

Interview with the Chilian filmmaker Luis Cifuentes about his short film "En Busca de un Tierno Silencio" selected as part of the 2019 International Competition (I3 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École in collaboration with the Brasserie du Court and Mydylarama. A man returns to Chile after years living in exile to try and find his friend who was disappeared during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Café court / Expresso Video - Luis Cifuentes from ClermontFd Short Film (…)

Argentin filmmaker Inés Gowland talks about her short film "Destete" selected as part of the 2019 International Competition (I4 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École in collaboration with La Brasserie du Court / Mydylarama. Teresa returns to Argentina determined to sell the family farm, but excessive rain forces her to stay, while allowing Ernesto, the presumptuous man who runs it, to convince her to keep it. Café court / Expresso Video - Inés Gowland from (…)

Brasserie/Mydy interview with the Nicaraguan filmmaker Laura Baumeister De Montis about her short film "Ombligo de Agua" selected as part of the 2019 International Competition (I2 programme). Alina rides horses. She is good at it, as she is at everything she does. Alina smokes crack. She feels more at home with the people who provide her with the drug than with her own family. Alina crumbles, but she has something to hold on to. A dream of a simple life, growing tomatoes. Café court / (…)

On the 20th of December, 1989, a few days after Ceausescu’s bloody repression in Timisoara, a father’s quiet evening turns to sheer ordeal as he finds out that his little son has mailed a wish letter to Santa. As the kid understood, his father’s desire was to see Ceausescu dead. What motivated you to set the film at that time? Did you have direct experience of the Ceausescu period in Romania? I have always been interested in this period perhaps because I grew up during Communism so that (…)

Interview in French by the Brasserie du Court team with filming from ARFIS students. Serait-il correct de voir dans votre film une analogie avec l’impact des nouvelles technologies qui ont tendance à s’immiscer considérablement dans nos vies, au détriment des relations que nous tissons avec les gens ? Oui, la manière dont la technologie s’est installée dans nos vies nous a changés. Cependant, je ne sais pas si c’est au détriment de la façon dont nous interagissons entre nous. Dans mon (…)

The animation Sorry I Drowned was broadcast on BBC Arabic’s film programme Cinema Badila last week. This 6-minute animated film “Sorry I Drowned”, created by the Beirut-based Studio Kawakeb and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), is inspired by a letter allegedly found on the body of someone who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea due to the prevailing cynical politics of our day. The film illustrates the migrant-rejection crisis from the eyes of the migrants taking the Mediterranean route. It (…)

This week’s film was one of the highlights of the 2018 edition of the Bristol Palestine Film Festival. 6 Miles Out is a short doc offering an intimate and authentic encounter with a group of fishermen in Gaza as they set out at dawn and follows them throughout the day and night, when they unavoidably become the target of Israeli military ships, hurling threats and warning shots, pushing them back towards the coast and away from the more plentiful supply of fish. The boats are restricted to 6 (…)

This award-winning short is now being show at the London Migration Film Festival (2018). Contact us if you’d like to find out more about the film or the director.

Interview with Sylvain Cruiziat, the director of Find Fix Finish, part of the Lab competition at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival 2018. Le court du jour : “Find Fix Finish” de Sylvain Cruiziat & Mila Zhlutenko from ClermontFd Short Film Festival on Vimeo. Get in touch or tweet us @mydylarama to find out more about the film or get in touch with Sylvain.

Interview avec Clarisse Hahn, réalisatrice de Mescaline, en compétition nationale au Festival de Clermont-Ferrand 2018. Le court du jour : "Mescaline" de Clarisse Hahn from ClermontFd Short Film Festival on Vimeo. Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur le film ou la réal, n’hésitez pas à prendre contact avec nous sur le site ou via notre compte twitter @mydyalarama. Interview réalisée avec l’équipe de la Brasserie du Court et des étudiants de l’Arfis.