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29 January 2022
Interview with Julien Regnard, director of Night Watch
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.
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28 January 2022
Interview with Gabriel González Acosta, director of Concertina
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 (...) Continue Reading »
28 January 2022
Interview with Anne-Sophie Bailly, director of La Ventrière [The Midwife]
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 (...) Continue Reading »
28 January 2022
Interview with Olivier Bayu Gandrille, director of TNT
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 (...) Continue Reading »
26 January 2022
Interview with Steven Fraser, director of Prosopagnosia
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.
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25 January 2022
Interview with Lila Pinell, director of Le roi David
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 (...) 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 (...) Continue Reading »
24 January 2022
Interview with Marthe Sebille director of Que La Bete 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 »
20 January 2022
Interview with Morad Mostafa, director of Khadiga
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 (...) Continue Reading »
27 November 2021
Q&A with Sari Katharyn, director of THE SAPPHO PROJECT: FRAGMENT 147 - EFN AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER
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 (...) Continue Reading »