Watch the interview with the Lithuanian filmmaker Vytautas Katkus about his short film Uogos selected in the 2023 International Competition (I10 programme).
Interview with Fabián León López, director of Pitbull Firstly, can you explain the title?In recent years, the pitbull dog race has been used by their owners to show strength. It has become a mask to a very simplistic manhood which is now falling to pieces. Can you tell us about what you wanted to explore through this relationship? Between man and woman, and […]
Watch the interview with the Nigerian filmmaker Olive Nwosu about her short film Egúngún selected in the 2022 International Competition (I10 programme).
Watch the interview with the Slovene filmmaker Špela Čadež about her short film Steakhouse selected in the 2022 International Competition (I10 programme).
Interview with Gulistan Mirzaei and Elizabeth Mirzaei, directors of Three Songs for Benazir How did you meet Benazir and Shaista? What decided you to make a documentary about them?We have known them for over 11 years. We first met Shaista in the camp when we were there for a different volunteer project. We felt we had known him for all of our lives. […]
Interview with Špela Čadež, director of Steakhouse What was your inspiration for Steakhouse?I have always been interested in the phenomenon of interpersonal relationships. Psychological violence was one of the topics I had long wanted to explore. It’s something that seems so far, and then suddenly you realize you’re drowning in its vortex. Steakhouse is an emotionally evocative piece but is never didactic nor […]
Watch the interview with the American filmmaker Katherine Propper about her short film Birds selected in the 2022 International Competition (I10 programme).
Interview with George-Alex Nagle, director of Mate What did you seek to explore through the relationship between John and Jack?For my co-writer Daniel Corboy and myself, the starting point of this film was questioning “what would my thirteen-year-old self-think of my thirty-year-old self?” Although both characters and their relationship to one another did evolve greatly throughout the writing process, and although we were […]
Interview with Olive Nwosu, director of Egúngún [Masquerade] How was Egúngún born?Egúngún was born from a desire to investigate my own feelings about the idea of “Home”. As a wanderer, who has lived in many identities, this is a question I often grapple with: this sense of different lived lives, and possibilities of lives. How Fate takes us down one road – and […]
Interview with Katherine Propper, director of Birds How was Birds born?I wanted to make this film, in part, to explore my creative process. My last short film involved a local community of young people whom I spent time with and worked with to make a film about their world. Birds expands on that approach more deeply. This film is more improvised, more off-the-cuff […]
