Interviews

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Marcelo Gomes • Director of Portrait of a Certain Orient

“I want to talk about the human being in context, not about the context itself”

Marcelo Gomes • Director of Portrait of a Certain Orient

The Brazilian director breaks down his story of a migration process that takes his characters from Lebanon to Brazil

07/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Big Screen Competition

Carlo Chatrian • Artistic director, Berlinale

“Films become political not just through their content, but also through the way they present challenging content with a certain form”

Carlo Chatrian • Artistic director, Berlinale

The Berlinale’s outgoing artistic director discusses the evolution of the programming, balancing vision and reality, and the festival's commitment to diversity

06/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024

Nazira Abzalova, Karin Wegsjö • Directors of If Everyone Just Leaves

“If society doesn’t trust you, how can you trust it back?”

Nazira Abzalova, Karin Wegsjö • Directors of If Everyone Just Leaves

In their film, which won Göteborg’s Angelo Award, the directorial duo shows what happens to communities if everyone does indeed just leave

06/02/2024 | Göteborg 2024

Lilian Hess • Director of Duchampiana

“Immersive media offer a really interesting opportunity to involve the body in the story”

Lilian Hess • Director of Duchampiana

The German artist and filmmaker explains her immersive project inspired by a Marcel Duchamp masterpiece, now awarded by Eurimages

05/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | IFFR Pro

Lisa Gertsch • Director of Electric Fields

“I wanted to weave all these stories into one big cosmos through subtle connections”

Lisa Gertsch • Director of Electric Fields

The Swiss director discusses her Max Ophüls Prize-winning feature debut, an episodic and poetic movie shot in black and white

05/02/2024 | Max Ophüls Prize 2024

Sophia Bösch • Director of Milk Teeth

“When the imagined world becomes real, that is an absolutely magical moment for me”

Sophia Bösch • Director of Milk Teeth

The Swiss-Swedish director unpicks her intriguing coming-of-age drama that unfolds in a mystical forest setting

05/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Big Screen Competition

Jenni Luhta, Lauri Luhta • Directors of Moses

“Freud is not the most empathetic person in the world, but you do develop some empathy for him later on”

Jenni Luhta, Lauri Luhta • Directors of Moses

We got the low-down on this experimental film helmed by the directorial duo, in which Sigmund Freud meets Moses

05/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Damien Hauser • Director of After the Long Rains

“My movies are better when I don’t have a lot of control”

Damien Hauser • Director of After the Long Rains

The Swiss-Kenyan director unpicks his third feature, in which the characters have to be practical about their dreams

02/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Harbour

Ishan Shukla • Director of Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

“I wanted to be able to talk about politics and spirituality in a very open way, without pointing guns at anyone”

Ishan Shukla • Director of Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

The Indian director breaks down his exuberant and dystopian animation, also giving an insight into his cultural influences

31/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Bright Future

Ulaa Salim • Director of Eternal

"We’re all seeking something bigger than our own lives or bigger than ourselves"

Ulaa Salim • Director of Eternal

Revealed with Sons of Denmark, the Danish filmmaker returns with a hybrid work completely out of the ordinary, a film of love, action, and science-fiction

30/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Big Screen Competition

Emilija Gašić • Director of 78 Days

“I appreciate it when films are watchable – when I want to revisit them and they don’t break my heart too much”

Emilija Gašić • Director of 78 Days

The Serbian director takes a trip back to 1999, but the question is: what’s reality and what’s fiction?

30/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Bright Future

Patrik Blomberg Book • Director of Love Will Save Us

“I have a note in my office that says, ‘Make the film that only you can make’”

Patrik Blomberg Book • Director of Love Will Save Us

The Swedish helmer shares some thoughts on his movie’s journey as well as his own experiences back in the mid-1980s

30/01/2024 | Göteborg 2024

Julia De Simone • Director of Formosa Beach

“This film really came from the heart”

Julia De Simone • Director of Formosa Beach

The past is the present – and vice versa – in the second part of the Brazilian director’s trilogy

30/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck • Directors of Eternal You

“Artificial intelligence is an entity you can project so much onto that it sometimes becomes kind of godlike”

Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck • Directors of Eternal You

We chatted to the German directors about their cinematic exploration of the newest artificial intelligence trends

29/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Mikko Mäkelä • Director of Sebastian

“There's no way you can write without infusing it with your personal experiences and your perspective”

Mikko Mäkelä • Director of Sebastian

We met up with the director of this very intimate portrait of a young man on a journey to find his place in society

29/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

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