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29 January 2022
Interview with Fan Sissoko, director of On the Surface
by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde Couturier
Ada goes swimming in the Icelandic sea and reflects on raising a child in a country that feels nothing like home. As she enters the freezing water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy. Soon her swimming eases. Facing her fears is helping her (…) Continue Reading »
29 January 2022
Interview with Julien Regnard, director of Night Watch
by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
A 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 (…) Continue Reading »
28 January 2022
Interview with Gabriel González Acosta, director of Concertina
by Brasserie du Court team
Concertina 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 (…) Continue Reading »
28 January 2022
Interview with Anne-Sophie Bailly, director of La Ventrière [The Midwife]
by Brasserie du Court team
In 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 (…) Continue Reading »
28 January 2022
Interview with Olivier Bayu Gandrille, director of TNT
by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
During 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 (…) Continue Reading »
26 January 2022
Interview with Steven Fraser, director of Prosopagnosia
by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde Couturier
Filmmaker 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? (…) Continue Reading »
25 January 2022
Interview with Lila Pinell, director of Le roi David
by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
Shana 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 (…) Continue Reading »
25 January 2022
Interview with Carlos Segundo, director of Sideral
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 (…) Continue Reading »
24 January 2022
Interview with Marthe Sebille director of Que La Bete Monte
by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
After 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. (…) Continue Reading »
20 January 2022
Interview with Morad Mostafa, director of Khadiga
by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team
Khadiga, 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 (…) Continue Reading »