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Interview with Directors Zsuzsanna Kreif and Borbala Zétényi - Clermont-Ferrand film 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 (...)

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Interview with Director Jenny Teng - Clermont-Ferrand film festival

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 (...)

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Interview with Director Bertrand Mandico- Clermont-Ferrand film festival

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 (...)

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Interview with Director Daria Yurkevich- Clermont- Ferrand film festival

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 (...)

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Interview with Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun- Clermont- Ferrand Film Festival

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 (...)

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Court- Lion of the Future Award Winner Venice IFF

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 (...)

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Moralists Instruction Musical: The Revolutionary Conduct (Leeds Queer Film Festival)

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, (...)

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Nordic Film Festival: Olafur Eliasson Space is Process

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 (...)

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The Romanian Film Festival in London, THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE 2012

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 (...)

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Cork Midsummer Festival – Parallel Cities 2012

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 (...)

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