cinema

  Interview with Kyuho Sim, director of Disillusioned The main character has left the city to live in the countryside, which turns out to be a land of strangeness and even of danger. How did you decide on this topic and protagonist to make a film about? When I wrote the first draft in January of 2017, I was feeling anxious and afraid of […]

  Interview with Jonas Riemer, director of Der Übers Meer Kam (The One Who Crossed the Sea) Whose story is this based on? What sort of research did you carry out to tell it? The film is based on the true story of my uncle, who is also the narrator of the film. In the early 1980s, he fled the GDR and crossed the […]

  Interview with Eddy Schwartz and Yordan Petkov, codirectors of Noshtna Smyana [Night Shift] What drove you to explore the story of Hristo? Despite being very specific in its details, the story touches on some broader topics that are important and close to us – workers’ exploitation, racial tensions in Bulgaria, friendship and sacrifice. The story is a vehicle to explore and bring out […]

  Interview with Lorna Nickson Brown, director of Ned & Me Obvious question. Why did you choose to explore this subject matter? Have you had any personal experience of the issues around euthanasia? I was drawn to this subject matter because I think it is one of the greatest questions of our age, or any age, and I don’t have an answer for it. […]

  Interview with Su-young Huh, director of Incomplete Woman What a highly unusual premise. Are any parts autobiographical? I started to write this story because of a sense of shame I felt when making artwork. I knew that I should keep trying hard (following the example of all the outstanding, skilled people I have met) but I found myself unable to do so, and […]

  Interview with Sonja Feldmeier, director of The Peepul Tree Can you tell us more about how you came across the felling of this tree? What drove you to make a film about it? All this happened in 2011 in Haridwar, a city in northern India. I encountered this spectacular tree felling on my way to the Himalayas. I was shocked and equally fascinated […]

  Interview with Catarina Romano, director of Seja como for [Anyhow, anyway] Seja como for translates as “Anyway, anyhow”. Why did you choose this title for your short? The title is a message of hope, focussing on her liberation. We may live in difficult times, we may feel that the values of our society are changing, we have to deal with economic crises, financial […]

  Interview with Zhiyi Wang, director of Some Manifestations of the South To somebody who hasn’t seen the film, how would you introduce it? A rather simple sentence to introduce the story itself: an unusual assignment for a young man paid to honour other people’s dead. Regarding other than the story, I am happy to mention that I have made some attempts in the […]

  Interview with Vladilen Vierny, director of À marche forcée [On the March] What was the starting point for A marche forcée? In the spring of 2017, when I was living in Russia, I found myself at an unauthorized protest march organized by the opposition in the center of Moscow. I was surprised to see many teenagers there who seemed to me to be […]

  Interview with Héloïse Ferlay, director of À la mer poussière [To the Dusty Sea] What materials did you use for the bodies and for the tears, and why this choice? How many times did you try different things before you found the effect you were looking for? My puppets’ bodies are covered in wool, the tears are made from hydroalcoholic gel before it […]