Interview with Julie Ecoffey, director of But What Does It Mean? Where did you come up with the idea for these two characters? My crew. I often find the banal conversations of those around me absurd and very funny, so I wanted to represent characters who were realistic in the way they spoke. Why do they speak in English? Why the “twist”? I used English […]
An interview with Lisa Enes, director of Portør How familiar are you with the hospital as a workplace? Why did you set the film there?In 2016, I started working part-time at the bottom of the hospital hierarchy as a hospital porter – a person who moves patients and vital supplies between departments. Prior to this, hospitals were an unknown world for me. It was […]
Interview with Omar Kamara, director of Mass Ave What did you aim at exploring through the difficult relationship between the father and his son?As a first-generation Sierra Leonean American, the differences between me and my immigrant father were always incredibly apparent to me. We didn’t view life or process emotions the same way. Due to this fact, my father and I were constantly […]
Interview with Marian Freistühler, director of Die Geheimnisvollen Inseln [Islands in the City] Did the lockdowns and more generally the pandemic draw you to make a film that deals with the ideas of longing and loneliness?It may sound paradoxical, but what I observed during the first contact restrictions was the opposite of loneliness. There were a few weeks in Hamburg’s spring 2020 when […]