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1 February 2022
Interview with Romain Dumont, director of Au plaisir les ordures ! (See You Garbage!)
by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierFor Christmas, three garbage collectors, Elijah, Nino and Belz, are surprised to be invited to dinner at the home of the Prime Minister and the First Lady. They go there, enthusiastic and candid, without suspecting that on the menu is a painful (…) Continue Reading »
1 February 2022
Interview with Olivier van Malderghem, director of Au Circuit (At the Circuit)
by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierEvery weekend, Anne and Jeff go to the Mettet motorcycle circuit. A racing driver, Jeff is training. Anne takes his lap times. Occasionally, at the Au Circuit café, she negotiates bitterly on the phone the loan of the motorbike. Anne’s gaze then (…) Continue Reading »
1 February 2022
Interview with Ramata-Toulaye Sy, director of Astel
by Brasserie du Court teamIt’s October, the end of the rainy season in Fouta, an isolated region in the north of Senegal. Astel (13) accompanies her father every day in the bush. Together, they look after their herd of cows. But one day, in the middle of the desert, the (…) Continue Reading »
1 February 2022
Interview with Michael Graversen and Florian Elabdi, co-directors of Ghosts of Mória
by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierWhen Europe’s Moria refugee camp burns to the ground, two friends from Aleppo choose to stay in the ruins and survive by scavenging metal in the apocalyptic world left by the fire. But they are in a race against the clock as the metal is taken by (…) Continue Reading »
1 February 2022
Interview with Marthe Sébille, director of Que la Bête monte
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. (…) Continue Reading »
30 January 2022
Interview with Varun Raman and Tom Hancock, co-directors of Man or Tree
by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierIn the wilderness, a tree begins to question whether it may actually be a man tripping on hallucinogens.
How did you come up with the idea for Man or Tree?
It is based on a true story – the real-life experience of a friend, who had an (…) Continue Reading »
30 January 2022
Interview with Pablo Serret de Ena, director of Useless Opera Singers
by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierAn unknown force pushes a man to a place of extraordinary characteristics in the high Arctic. In its limits, is where he may find the answer. Between an introspective adventure and the poetry of the absurd.
How much are you related to (…) Continue Reading »
30 January 2022
Interview with Marin Gérard, director of À l’ombre l’après-midi
by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamA seemingly ordinary day in the life of Quentin, a Parisian film-lover. After going to the cinema twice, he runs into a former college friend, listens to a girls’ conversation in a bar, then goes and meet his best friend, has a beer, and ends up (…) Continue Reading »
29 January 2022
Interview with Assaad Khoueiry, director of A Broken Fan
by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamAdel, a desperate jobless father, gets out on the streets of Beirut hoping for change.
Can you tell us more about the conditions that have led your protagonist to take action? When you are the only breadwinner in your family and you have to (…) Continue Reading »
29 January 2022
Interview with Fan Sissoko, director of On the Surface
by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierAda 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 »