Watch the interview with the Greek filmmaker Isabella Margara about her short film Nothing Holier than a Dolphin selected in the 2023 International Competition (I9 programme).
Interview with Maximilian Bungarten, director of The Age of Innocence Who or what inspired you the character of Lev?Young men that work on a construction sites. In Germany, we have high demand for qualified skilled workers so a lot of young men are starting to work on a construction site in their teenage years. Some of them just only to make some […]
Interview with Binghan Lin, director of The Trapped Pig When and where did you film this short? What was the situation with Covid? I shot this short film in Cining, a city in Northwest China, in 2020 summer. In that time, the situation with Covid was not good, and many people and the government feared of losing control of the epidemic, and they did […]
Interview with Bilal Alkhatib, director of Palestine 87 The film is based on a true story. How did you hear about it? Why did you decide to tell it as a short film? This film tells a story from the 1987 Intifada; it is believed to be a true story. I heard about it from a taxi driver, although I embellish it for cinematic […]
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 […]
Watch the interview with the Norwegian filmmaker Jon Vatne about his short film Motvind (Headwind) selected in the 2022 International Competition (I9 programme).
Interview with Hsuan Kang Tsai, director of A Hidden Trail Your film deals with migrant workers who carry felled logs in the forest. Did you gather a lot of testimony and information about their situation during your preparation?This story is adapted from a real event. When I was writing this story, I was also editing a documentary about the death and suffering cases […]
Interview with Salomon Chekol, director of Ma nishtana [What Has Changed] How was Ma nishtana born?The film was born when I thought about holiday packages we used to get when I was young. I imagined a soldier lugging a box he got from the army all the way home. I remember those looks, that place of shame you feel from kids and people […]
Interview with Jon Vatne, director of Motvind [Headwind] I have read that Motvind was written and shot during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. What was the starting point of the film? Was it necessary for you to remain creative during that moment?Yes. Me and the writer of the film, Anna Lian, was working on a totally different documentary together. She […]
Interview with Ida Melum, director of Night of the Living Dread Night of the Living Dread is really relatable. Were you inspired by your own experience with anxiety?Absolutely. I find it fascinating how you can have a perfectly normal day, and then, at least for me, as soon as my head hits the pillow, my mind starts racing. I was always an anxious […]
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