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  Interview with Thorsten Fleisch, director of Mustererkenntnis [Pattern Cognition] How often do you direct cinematographic experiments? How many have you directed including a journey into extremely overcharged screens? I’ve been making short experimental films for more than 20 years now. Most of the films fall into the experimental animation category. On a few of them I was working with flickering and strobing for example […]

  Interview with Leeha Kim, director of Mascot What did you want to explore when creating this great character of a fox training in a mascot academy? I wanted to talk about a system or kind of factory that makes a standard and evaluates people on that basis. In Korea, people usually think being different is wrong. Mascot was selected in festivals in France […]

  Interview with Chris Filippone, director of How to Breathe in Kern County Where did you shoot? How did you select and find your film locations? I shot primarily in California’s southern San Joaquin Valley, mainly in the dusty, agricultural region of Kern County and the city of Bakersfield. This region reflects an image of California that most people never encounter, lacking the beaches […]

  Interview with Maïté Sonnet, director of Massacre Tell us a little about how Massacre came about. I wanted tell the story of a reversal, a passage: from powerlessness to power. I was able to quickly imagine the two characters in the film: two little girls who initially seem innocent gradually become threatening. This pair of girl-witches, like a two-headed monster, was my starting […]

  Interview with Andrew Betzer, director of Important Police Shit Can you explain the title? The title is supposed to sound like police slang. A term that only police use, in this case to describe the rights and trials that they go through in their training. The title is made up, but I feel that it sounds very authentic. I’m surprised the term does […]

  Interview with Lan Pham Ngoc, director of Blessed Land Why did you choose black and white? Actually, if you watch closely, you will notice the film has a tinge of sepia instead of only black and white. The reason for this color palette and why we switched to a super zoom lens was production cost issues. This decision was made during the third day […]

  Interview with Julia Thelin, director of Sorry Not Sorry Your film is really powerful. Can you tell us a bit about how you worked on the scenario? The feeling of the story was very clear in my head when I started, as well as the feeling of the character, what she was like. It was kind of concrete from the beginning although even […]

  Interview with Haris Raftogiannis, director of Premier amour Why did you want to deal with the theme of desire? To love and to be loved is something that concerns me a lot. Love is a political act as one of my friends says. To make a film especially on the sarcastic side of love, was something much intriguing for me and Nikos Vavouris, the editor of […]

  Interview with Thanasis Neofotistos, director of Route-3 So, what is Route-3? Is it an actual bus route in Sarajevo? Why did you choose this one? Yes. Route-3 is the main historic route of the tram in Sarajevo. The tram was a gift from Vienna after the war and Route-3, where the film is shot, is the only route that goes through the centre […]

  Interview with Michael Frei, director of Kids Do you have further projects on the theme of group dynamics? Not specifically on this theme, no. But group dynamics are at the core of understanding so many social phenomena that it will remain present in my work one way or the other. Why were you interested in the choir song and its very high-pitched tone? […]