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We interviewed French filmmaker Jawahine Zentar about her short film heart-felt Moroccan-set Sur la tombe de mon père (On My Father’s Grave) selected in the 2023 National Competition (F1 programme). Continue Reading »
9 February 2023
Interview with Binghan Lin, director of The Trapped Pig
by Abla KandalaftThe Trapped Pig tells the almost surreal story of a Wuhan truck driver, who is travelling home for the Chinese New Year with a precious boar, being trapped in one-person quarantine zone at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A keen video essayist, Richard Misek’s work involved endlessly googling archive images. In 2018, he noticed that the download function had been disabled on Google. He dug deeper and found out that Getty Images had threatened to sue Google. The more he looked, the more Richard noticed that Getty had their logo imprinted everywhere and the scope of their reach became clear to him. This very (…) Continue Reading »
5 February 2023
Isabella Margara on her short Nothing Holier than a Dolphin
by Brasserie du Court team, Elise LoiseauTwo fishermen find a Dolphin accidentally caught in their nets. The Dolphin, on its turn, finds a fisherman drowning in the water and tries to save him.
More myths and legends as inspiration at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival! This (…) Continue Reading »
5 February 2023
Masterfully inspired by Afro-futurism: Amartei Amar on TsutsuƐ - ClermontFF2023
by Brasserie du Court team, Elise LoiseauSet in a small Ghanaian town at the edge of a large landfill site that spills into the ocean, the sons of a fisherman, Sowah and Okai, struggle to cope with loss of their eldest brother who drowned during a fishing expedition. Haunted by his (…) Continue Reading »
On a hot August afternoon, the family gathers at the table. The memories of each are crossed to tell the story of uncle Botão. From the dictatorship to the emigration to France, where he worked as a garbage man, and when he arrived with the van filled with “garbage”he transformed into treasures.
What a man uncle Botão clearly was! Laura Gonçalves paints a tender and heart-warming portrait of (…) Continue Reading »
4 February 2023
Dwayne LeBlanc on Civic, at the Brasserie du Court
by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamCIVIC is a short film that follows Booker on his first trip back home to South Central, L.A. after several years of self-imposed exile. Without any clear motive, or even a warning, Booker returns to the place that holds his origins and the people (…) Continue Reading »
4 February 2023
"There is a radical desire for the unknown and of otherness": Soufiane Adel on One Day When I Was Lost
by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamThe Voyager probe is about to leave our solar system. At the same time, on Earth, Alain Diaw begins his first day of work in a prestigious automobile company. He has come a long way and is also aiming for the unknown.
Soufiane Adel’s Le Jour où (…) Continue Reading »
1 February 2023
Interview with Kamal Aljafari, director of Paradiso, XXXI, 108
by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde Couturier“Nothing can be heard anymore; the roar of our plane absorbs every other sound. We are heading straight to the world’s biggest display of soundproof fireworks, and soon we will drop our bombs.”
Palestinian filmmaker and artist Kamal Aljafari (…) Continue Reading »
Set in Kabul, Afghanistan. Pari, an in-house tailor, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses to save her job.
I did a double take when Salar came on to this video interview. I’ll be honest and say that I expected him to be a woman. Salar has a real knack for writing female characters. Bad Omen is an intelligent, well-crafted story and I look forward to seeing more of Salar’s (…) Continue Reading »