Festival

Limbo Limbo Travel is a trip to a realm of fantasies. Where did the inspiration come from? Z: The first idea for the film came after I’d seen an ad in a newspaper for a bus trip to Cuba, offered for women only. Then I imagined these huge women (…)

What inspired you to make The Lobster’s Dive? Why did you choose that title? The idea came to me from a Zen tale. A Chinese emperor offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to he who can find a vase at the bottom of a lake. Thousands of suitors (…)

Had you already explored filial relationships in your earlier work? Yes, Boro in the Box also dealt with filial relationships. In that film, there was a pregnant mother who throws herself into an abyss to rid herself of the child; the same (…)

Had you written, participated in or directed any films prior to Mamie, Vanya et la chèvre [Grandma, Vanya and the Goat]? Yes, I completed my studies at Le Fresnoy, the national studio for contemporary arts. There I made one fiction short film (…)

Why is Le Dernier des Céfrans [The Last of the Frenchmen set in the banlieue*? Couldn’t your heroes have come from Paris or even the countryside? The film takes place in the banlieue because for the last ten years I’ve been living mainly in the (…)

In Chaitanya Tamhane’s impressive debut Court the mounting tension and increasing urgency of so many legal dramas are replaced by a beautiful but melancholic futility. The film meanders through the endless legal battles which the Indian state has (…)

It’s impossible not to fall in love with a film which includes the line ‘but heteroman, your arguments fall light as leaves cause your g spot is in your ass’. This mix of queer criticism and autumnal imagery is actually a line from a song, (…)

OLAFUR ELIASSON: SPACE IS PROCESS Jacob Jørgensen/Henrik Lundø; Denmark 2010; 76 mins; UK Premiere Space is Process is a documentary that follows Olafur Eliasson in the time leading up to the realisation of his Waterfalls (…)

The Romanian Film Festival in London brings an extraordinary line-up of new and exciting films, between 22- 25 November 2012, at Curzon Renoir Cinema - Wednesday, November 07, 2012 Profusion International who are behind the festival are also (…)

Pour ceux qui souhaitent découvrir Cork, seconde ville d’Irlande, juin est la période idéale. Non seulement les touristes y sont moins nombreux, mais le merveilleux Cork Midsummer Festival y prend place tous les ans. Cette dernière édition nous (…)