Interview with Johan Tappert and Gustav Egerstedt, directors of Det Sista Äktenskapet [The Last Marriage] How was the film born?I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that humans seem to adapt so quickly to extreme situations. Even a huge disaster like a war cannot stop people from having dinner with their friends in the ruins and argue about the bill afterwards. Normality seems […]
Interview with Boyoung Kim, director of A Guitar in the Bucket What is your link to guitars and to music?I’m very interested in sound and like music very much. If I hadn’t become an animation director, I think I might have become a musician. The reason I used a music instrument in this project was that I needed a tool that could express […]
Interview with Valentin Stejskal, director of 5pm Seaside Where did the idea of 5pm Seaside come from?The film was built on a love story a truck driver shared with me. Fifteen years ago, he was in love with his buddy in the Greek military, but since then he wasn’t able to talk with anyone about it. He isolated himself to protect this memory […]
Interview with Kate McMullen, director of Little Berlin Why were you interested in the Berlin wall at first?I started thinking about it in 2019, when Germany was celebrating 30 years since the fall of the Wall – but I needed a new angle. Doing some digging, I came across Mödlareuth, a sleepy farming village which was split in two by the Iron Curtain in 1946. […]