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Interview with Daniel Soares, director of Please Make it Work  Did you use an in-camera editing technique, without additional elements? Is it for you an experiment or a routine?The film is really just one continuous take with no hidden cuts. It was an experiment and ended up working in the very last take of the only shoot day we had. But it is definitely also […]

Interview with Florentina Gonzalez, director of El After del Mundo What made you choose to locate this encounter in the middle of an environment in a process of destruction?I’m interested in dystopia as a genre because above all I feel it’s very entertaining and liberating: it all starts at the end of what we know. What did you find interesting in the relationship […]

Interview with Ahmad Alyaseer, director of Wa Thakarina Wa Unthana [Our Males and Females] What gave you the idea of exploring this story? Is it based on any kind of real life experience?My sister and I got inspired to write the story after meeting Bousi, a transgender woman from the Arab region. Her story stood out to us and was extremely touching. Bousi […]

Interview with Trëndelina Halili, director of Prishtinë, 2002 Who or what inspired the characters of the two friends? What did you want to explore through their relationship?The characters of the two friends in the film are based on real characters. So, the story is based on true events, with some fictitious interventions. The very idea for this film was initiated by these characters. […]

Interview with Binghan Lin, director of The Trapped Pig When and where did you film this short? What was the situation with Covid? I shot this short film in Cining, a city in Northwest China, in 2020 summer. In that time, the situation with Covid was not good, and many people and the government feared of losing control of the epidemic, and they did […]

Interview with Ting Chi-Wen , director of The Textual Way of Contemporary Dialogue How did you get the inspiration for The Textual Way of Contemporary Dialogue?Last year I read a book, The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. At the same time, I was also studying the image theory of Gilles Deleuze. I found that most of the dialogue in fictions is still traditionally […]

Interview with Hekuran Isufi, director of I Kemi Varros Baballarët I Kemi Varros Baballarët deals with Dardan’s return  from France to Kosovo to visit his father’s grave. What were you interested in exploring with a film that talks about exile and mourning?  The film talks about a country that’s still marked by its past, by war – by the past that still weighs down […]

Interview with Bilal Alkhatib, director of Palestine 87  The film is based on a true story. How did you hear about it? Why did you decide to tell it as a short film? This film tells a story from the 1987 Intifada; it is believed to be a true story. I heard about it from a taxi driver, although I embellish it for cinematic […]

Interview with Julius Gintaras Blum, director of Chemkids  What is your particular relationship with Chemnitz? I was born in Dresden, a city right next to Chemnitz. When I was passing through Chemnitz by train in my early 20s, I realised that I had never been to the city before, even though it was so close to my hometown. Then I fell in love with […]

Interview with Enrique Buleo, director of Las Visitantes What made you want these ladies’ story?  Were they inspired from people in your life? In my village, most of the retired people that usually go to guided tours are women and many of them are widows. Widows are very common here (and maybe everywhere) and I’ve always thought that they really begin to live when […]