Shorts
Reviews, previews and highlights of features and shorts from the myDylarama team and guest writers.
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Interview with Julien Regnard, director of Night Watch
29 January 2022, by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamA couple rushes out of a glamorous party. On their way home, an argument leads to a brutal car accident. When George regains consciousness, Christina has disappeared. He will then experience a real descent into hell. Where did you get the idea for the couple in the film? The story in the film is based largely on my personal life. It’s coated over by the animation, the genre, the film’s atmosphere, all that… But the story is still pretty autobiographical. How would you describe your (...) -
Interview with Gabriel González Acosta, director of Concertina
28 January 2022, by Brasserie du Court teamConcertina 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 2022, by Brasserie du Court teamIn 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 (...) -
Interview with Olivier Bayu Gandrille, director of TNT
28 January 2022, by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamDuring 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 (...) -
Interview with Steven Fraser, director of Prosopagnosia
26 January 2022, by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierFilmmaker 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 (...) -
Interview with Lila Pinell, director of Le roi David
25 January 2022, by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamShana 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 (...) -
Interview with Carlos Segundo, director of Sideral
25 January 2022, by Brasserie du Court team, Elise LoiseauIn 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 (...) -
Interview with Marthe Sebille director of Que La Bete Monte
24 January 2022, by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamAfter a bus accident in the middle of nowhere, Lupa decides to tag along with another passenger, Alban, who is determined to reach the nearest village on foot. Crossing through fields and rivers, they slowly go off-course in a strange forest. 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 (...) -
Interview with Morad Mostafa, director of Khadiga
20 January 2022, by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamKhadiga, 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 (...) -
Q&A with Sari Katharyn, director of THE SAPPHO PROJECT: FRAGMENT 147 - EFN AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER
27 November 2021, by Mydylarama teamWith dozens of translations of Sappho’s words recorded by queer women from all over the world, we celebrate the fragment’s poignant reflection on memory and legacy. With animation reflecting the evolution of art movements, we pay tribute to queer woman through the ages—though we may never know their names, we celebrate their lives. The Sappho Project won the Audience Award at the latest edition of Emerging Filmmakers Night. We caught up with director Sari Katharyn. Who is Sappho? What (...)