Interview with Victor Quintanilha, director of Portugal Pequeno [Little Portugal] To somebody who hasn’t seen Portugal Pequeno, how would you introduce it? Portugal Pequeno is a film, in essence, about the passage to adulthood. A story about a young man who works as a fisherman with his father and dreams of being a famous Brazilian funk singer. Through the routine of this character, […]
Interview with Emanuela Muzzupappa, director of Accamòra [Right Now] I assume this is a personal film, can you tell us a bit more about the background of the story? This story is completely personal, perhaps too much personal. It originates from a situation that I was experiencing within my family at that time. One of those moments that no one hopes to ever […]
Interview with Ramzi Bashour, director of The Trees How much are you aware of the severity of the droughts in Lebanon? Is this what sparked your interest in this subject matter? A lot of the environmental science concerned in the film derived from discussions with my father who is a soil-chemist and professor of agriculture in Lebanon. Droughts were not specifically what sparked […]
Interview with Neo Sora, director of The Chicken How autobiographical is the story? Or is it based on someone else you know? The story itself is an adaptation of a short story entitled “An Afternoon On November 3rd” by Naoya Shiga. However, I interpreted this 100-year-old story to be set in modern-day New York. The characters are largely modelled off of the characters […]
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 […]
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