Interview with Phạm Ngọc Lân, director of The Unseen River How did you get into the idea of dealing with love affairs and feelings? Every August in the city I live in, bank swallows would appear in abundance. In the evenings, they would glide above the river surface while their chirping fill the air. Since ancient times, there have been beliefs about these […]
Interview with Caroline Cherrier, director of Horacio How did you come up with the idea for Horacio? My uncle worked with inmates, and he told me about a conversation he had with a convict, who summed up his act with these simple words: “She was yelling, she was yelling, and after… she wasn’t yelling any more”. That made an impression on me because it’s […]
Interview with Paz Corona, director of Santiago 1973-2019 Why did you want to bear witness to the 2019 protests in Chile? About ten years ago a friend sent me an article about an unprecedented natural phenomenon that took place in the Atacama desert: the most arid desert in the world had bloomed. The cause of this improbable flowering was related to a natural […]
Interview with Gabriel Böhmer, director of Push This Button If You Begin to Panic Which techniques did you use to create and animate these superimposed paper cuts? The film primarily employs a cutout technique. The characters, and sets, are all just little pieces of paper that have been cut out by hand. The film revolves around an MRI, which is a medical scan […]
Interview with Davoud Rangkhaneh, director of Nightclub How did you get the inspiration for Nightclub? There is no nightclub in Iran. I have never been to a nightclub. The main source of inspiration for me was the ancient myths of Iran and the experience of parties and friendly get-togethers as another source of inspiration. The difference between these spaces and the real nightclub formed this […]