Interview with Thomas Elley, director of the cryptic and unsettling Bølger [Open Spaces] in the international competition. I assume Open Spaces [the English title] refers to the filming location. Can you tell us a bit more about this place and its community? Yes, it does. The fun thing is that the original title of the film is “Bølger” which is Danish for “waves”. And I hated that title in (…) Continue Reading »

Interview with the French filmmaker Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis about his short film Swatted selected as part of the 2019 Lab Competition (L1 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École, in collaboration with the Brasserie du Court and Mydylarama. Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis is back at Clermont with a second award-winning short. Café court / Expresso Video - Ismaël Joffroy (…) Continue Reading »

Interview with Taiwanese filmmaker Pang-Chuan Huang around his short film "Last Year When the Train Passed by" selected as part of the 2019 Lab Competition (L5 programme). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École in collaboration with the Brasserie du Court and the Mydylarama team. Pang directed the Grand Prix-winning Retour in 2018. What were you doing last year when I took this (…) Continue Reading »

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 (…) Continue Reading »

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 (…) Continue Reading »

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 (…) Continue Reading »

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 (…) Continue Reading »

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. (…) Lire la suite »

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 (…) Continue Reading »

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 (…) Continue Reading »