Movies for Airplanes

"Kajanaqtuq" was selected in the 5th Flying Film Festival edition and we had a chat about it with the director Ella Morton. In the film altered images shot on Super8mm film take us to Nunavut, Canada. The voice of Naulaq LeDrew, an Inuk Elder, guides us among the Arctic landscape and the stories of her home. Find the Flying Film Festival on Facebook Instagram our website

“Violet Gave Willingly” received the Flying Film Festival Jury's special mention. We had a conversation on the project with the director Claire Sanford. Synopsis In the documentary she portrays her mother, Deborah Dumka, exploring the connections between her artistic process and her past traumas. Follow the Flying Film Festival project Facebook Instagram website

“Oasis” won the Flying Film Festival Silver Wings Award in 2024. We had a conversation on the project with the director Justine Martin. The documentary follows Raphaël and Rémi in their summer adventures. As twins, they grew up with a special bond. One of them has a disability and we sense that entering the adolescence will set a different pace in each of their lives, changing their relation too. You can watch the documentary here ENG translation of the dialogue excerpts: 00:02:58 Raphaël - Do we go now? Is it bad if we fall in? Rémi - No. Raph - (screaming) Rémi - You ok? Raph - It happened. Rémi - Stop, I'm gonna fall! Stop! Raph - I wanna do pedal boat. I wanna do pedal boat. I want to! 00:05:33 Rémi -You got an ace? Raphaël - Crap. Do I need to give them all? Rémi - Yeah. Raph - No. Rémi - Yeah. Raph - I'll just give you two. Rémi - No, you have to give them all. You give me all three. Raph - Here. Rémi - I even think you have one more. Raph - No. Rémi - I saw it! I saw it! Raph - No. Rémi - I saw it! Raph don't cheat or else you will get the karma of your life. Raph - You saw it wrong. Rémi - I see it now. Raph - You saw wrong. Rémi - Raph, give it. 00:08:18 Rémi - He's my brother I love him, I spend so much time with him that in my head he doesn't have a handicap, he is like anyone. It's as I slowly grew up that I noticed he was different. Yeah. Justine - How well does he take care of you? Raphaël- Very well. He protects me. And that's awsome. -- Follow the Flying Film Festival project https://flyingfilmfestival.com/

"Discussion animée entre entendeurs de voix" (Animated discussion between voice-hearers) won the Flying Film Festival first prize. We had a conversation on the project with the director Tristan Thil. In the documentary we meet a group of people who gather to talk about how they deal with the voices in their heads. Instead of “schizophrenic”, to present themselves they prefer the term “voice-hearers” . ENG translation of the dialogue excerpts: 1 - Carol: I had to go to another hospital to find out that it's called schizophrenia, and it comes from my brain. From my brain, yes... It's my brain that secretes the talking voices, I thought it was telepathy, they get in and out against my will. - Antonin : and do you answer them? - Carol: Uh, yes... Well it's not like a real dialogue, but sometimes they ask questions, so I answer. - Antonin: Oh, that...shh! Don't say that to anybody... They're gonna say you're nuts. - Carol: but I can say it here! 2 - Virginia: Is there a link between the music you play, or listen to, and the reactions [of the voices]? - Robert: Oh yes, totally. For example I'm not allowed to play Mozart, because he was coprophilic... Neither Mussorgsky, because he was an alcoholic. And, of course, I'm not allowed to play Schumann! - Virginia: why? - Robert: because Schumann was schizophrenic! 3 - Does everybody take pills? -Yes, I do. -Me too. -I used to take Solian. Now it's Amisulpride, a generic. I took 2 in the morning, 2 in the evening. Now I do 7! -Haha! I've got the same. Follow the Flying Film Festival project https://www.instagram.com/flyingfilmfestival/

What's better than a feature film to entertain you on a long flight? Maybe a unique short film festival. We've been chatting with Christine Ringger, Inflight Entertainment Manager for Swiss International Air Lines, about her job and how she brought our festival on board back in 2015.

An hairdresser salon in Tunis becomes a debate square on the eve of the 2019 presidential election. In her documentary "Ain't no time for Women (Y'a pas d'heure pour les femmes)" Sarra El Abed captures a different perspective on the ongoing fights of Tunisian women for their rights.

Boundaries are usually seen as a limit, but they can also create a space, where rules give us opportunity to get closer to people in a different and more intimate way. Talking about his short film "Some Kind of Intimacy", Toby Bull shared with us his thoughts about documentary filmmaking.

In 2021 "Huntsville Station" won our festival second prize. We had the nicest conversation with the documentary directors Jamie Meltzer and Chris Filippone. Check out the Flying Film Festival social accounts for the documentary link!