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  Interview with Alessandro Di Gregorio, director of Frontiera What motivated you to focus on Lampedusa? Me and the screenwriter, Ezio Abbate, wanted to tell a story about what was happening in the Mediterranean Sea. Ezio read a newspaper story about the tragedy of 3 October 2013, when 368 migrants died near Lampedusa. It was the biggest migrant tragedy ever heard. In that article, […]

  Interview with Ariane Labed, director of Olla Olla’s character is particularly interesting. Far from being a victim, she reinvents herself, constantly surprising the viewer. How did you create this character? I wanted to make a character movie. Trying to create a unique portrait of a woman, who toys with clichés, who acts for her survival, she does what we wouldn’t do, she’s a […]

  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 Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, director of Winter in the Rainforest Can you explain the title to us? Winter in The Rainforest started on my first trips to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and a rainforest in the Sierra Gorda mountains in Mexico. I got the idea to shoot a stop-motion film in the tropical nature. I come from Estonia, a Nordic country with […]

  Interview with Anna Paavilainen, director of Kaksi Ruumista Rannalla [Two Bodies on a Beach] Where did you get the inspiration for Kaksi Ruumista Rannalla from? Is there any link to dreams? During the Camerimage festival 2016, I saw the film Raging Bull which I hadn’t seen for a long time, and I started to think about how my life and perspective to it would […]

  Interview with Hugo Frassetto and Sophie Tavert Macian, co-directors of Traces How did you work out the graphic style to get it to aesthetically match cave paintings? The starting point was choosing animated sand, calling on Hugo and the technique that he’s mastered, in order to dive into the mineral quality of decorated caves. I also wanted to have Hugo try out a […]

  Interview with An Pham Thien, director of Hãy tỉnh thức và sẵn sàng [Stay Awake, Be Ready] How did you go about creating Hãy tỉnh thức và sẵn sàng? Can you talk us through the filming processes? Once I was drinking with my friends on street stalls, I observed there are many different shades of human destiny who are earning their living around […]

  Interview with Soetkin Verstegen, director of Freeze Frame Why did you want to animate Freeze Frame in black and white? (A question for fun: isn’t the black and white image “the most absurd technique since the invention of” the colour image?) The film is a play with formal elements of early cinema. It’s a time frame I got interested in while making my previous film: Mr Sand. […]

  Interview with Sevgi Eker, director of 49 Years from the House on the Left In which location did you shoot? How did you work on the set and the lights? The film was shot on an island one-hour boat ride away from a major city. The location on its own was a key in constructing the rhythm of the film. The uphill, downhill […]

  Interview with Dayan David Oualid, director of Dibbuk Are there any real concepts in Dibbuk or is it completely made up? The whole exorcism ritual is authentic. I didn’t make any of that up. I studied the subject for several months and tried to stick as closely as possible to the ritual as it’s described in the different works and testimonials I was […]