festival

Interview with Darcy Prendergast, director of Strange Beasts What’s your relation to Prenda? I suppose that was the starting point for wanting to tell this story?   Prenda is my animal-obsessed father, who at 17 years old worked as a big cat keeper at the Bacchus Marsh Lion and Tiger Safari – a popular tourist destination in an incredibly small Australian town. I’d long tried to find the right format for this […]

Interview with Bahar Pars, director of Åsnelandet  I have read that Åsnelandet part of a trilogy. Can you tell about your inspirations and the story behind this trilogy?When I started working with the project, I noticed that it contained too many aspects and material for only one film. It was a way to challenge myself to repeat things, but from a different perspective […]

Interview with Justus Hanfland, director of Der Zufall What inspired you to tell this story?A fascination with meeting strange, in the sense of unknown to me or new, people. I think it’s a bit of a wonder, when two people, who have never seen each other before, meet and can communicate and (partially) understand each other. Not necessarily, like in the film, with […]

Watch the interview with the Brazilian-Canadian filmmaker Jorge Camarotti about his short film Ousmane selected in the 2022 International Competition (I7 programme).

Watch the interview with the Cambodian filmmakers Chanrado Sok and Kongkea Vann about their short film Somleng reatrey [Sound of the Night] selected in the 2022 International Competition (I11 programme).

Watch the interview with the Argentinian filmmaker Ezequiel Salinas about his short film Mi ultima aventura [My Last Adventure] selected in the 2022 International Competition (I7 programme).

Watch the interview with the Chinese filmmaker Yue Huang about his short film The Executioner (L’Exécuteur) selected in the 2022 International Competition (I6 programme).

Watch the interview with the Brazilian filmmaker Elizabeth Rocha Salgado about her short film São Paulo Open Wound selected in the 2022 International Competition (I1 programme).

Watch the interview with the Filipino filmmaker Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan about his short film The Headhunter’s Daughter selected in the 2022 International Competition (I3 programme).

Watch the interview with the Finnish filmmaker Ilja Rautsi about his short film Night of the Living Dicks selected in the 2022 International Competition (I7 programme).