Tag: Foreign Films Interview
Interview: Aoqian Sun – Over the Sea | 2019 PYIFF
Before first-time Chinese filmmaker Sun Aoqian became a ravenous student of cinema, he was born to a family of farmers. Much of his childhood...
Interview: Producer Ekaterina Filippova – Curator | 2019 Warsaw International Film Festival
Curator is a Georgian/Russian co-production directed by Petr Levchenko and presented at the Warsaw International Film Festival in the Competition 1-2 section, reserved to...
Interview: Ulrich Köhler – In My Room
Coming seven years after 2011's Sleeping Sickness (Schlafkrankheit) and his longest time off between features, after his feverish study of settler psychology in West...
Video Interview: Phuttiphong Aroonpheng – Manta Ray
As ubiquitous on the fall festival circuit as it is excellent, Thai border drama Manta Ray ticks all the boxes: it’s an accomplished arthouse...
Interview: Ognjen Glavonic – The Load
World preeming at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, Ognjen Glavonic certainly had the odds stacked against him to create his fiction debut and a...
Interview: Philippe Lesage – Genèse
A thematic follow-up to his fiction debut The Demons (2015), Genèse is linked to Philippe Lesage’s earlier film in more ways than one -...
Interview: Markus Schleinzer – Angelo | 2019 New Horizons Intl. Film Festival
Markus Schleinzer’s second feature Angelo (review) has had a long life on the festival circuit, premiering in Toronto (Platform section 2018) and giving wide...
Interview: Lila Avilés – The Chambermaid (La Camarista) | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
Going beyond dirty towels and fully stocked mini bars, Lila Avilés' The Chambermaid shines a white sheets bright light on an a workforce that...
Interview: Gabriela Cartol – The Chambermaid (La Camarista) | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
In the film festival year of 2018, there were a pair of films hailing from Mexico that broached a text that relates to elitism,...
Interview: Carlos Reygadas – Our Time
Casting his wife, children and himself in his fifth feature film, Carlos Reygadas explores the tricky negotiations of being in an open relationship and...
Video Interview: Dominga Sotomayor – Too Late to Die Young
The hype machine officially began on Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor's third feature back in August when she won Best Director at Locarno. Since then,...
Interview: Marcello Fonte – Dogman
We witnessed a bridge with Italian cinemaʼs past with the pair of comp offerings in Cannes last year. Along with Happy as Lazarro, there...
Video Interview: Bi Gan – Long Day’s Journey Into Night
After the critical success of his poetically wistful debut Kaili Blues in 2015, 29-year old Chinese auteur Bi Gan has followed up with a...
Interview: Claire Burger – Real Love (C’est ça l’amour) | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
She broke out big as part of a trio of filmmakers with the Camera d'Or winning Party Girl (a film that opened the Un...
Interview: Michel Franco – Las hijas de Abril | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
Having been ardent fan of this filmmaker since being introduced to his minimalist essay on how an assault on the affluent can infuse toxicity...
Interview: Daniel Brühl | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
An actor and swiss army knife multi-linguistic for almost three decades now with seminal films in Good Bye Lenin! (2003) and The Edukators (2004)...
Interview: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre – Mustang | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Having grown up on film sets and gradually making the move from in front of the camera, to a space where appears to have...
Interview: Christian Petzold – Transit
If we think more broadly about the possibilities for narrative cinema in the age of “post-cinema” we can certainly make a case in point...
Interview: Chantel Clark – Wit Gesigte (Pale Faces) | 2019 January Screenwriters Lab
Among those selected to take part in the Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab we find Chantel Clark who brought Wit Gesigte (Pale Faces) to...
Interview: Nehir Tuna – Yurt (Dormitory) | 2019 January Screenwriters Lab
Among those selected to take part in the Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab we find Nehir Tuna who brought Yurt (Dormitory) to the Sundance...
Interview: Romina Paula – De Nuevo Otra Vez | 2019 Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam
A debut as rich and accomplished as Romina Paula’s Again Once Again is only surprising without prior knowledge of the Argentinian actress’ prolific output as...
Audio Interview: Laura Bispuri – Daughter of Mine (Figlia mia)
Day 4 at the Berlinale provided a gem of a film in provenance of the Mediterranean Sea's second largest island. The focal point of...
Interview: Joe Penna – Arctic
Arctic may be Joe Penna’s debut feature, but the Brazilian filmmaker has always been busy. A prolific Youtuber, editor, musician who built a channel...
Interview: Marcelo Martinessi – The Heiresses (Las Herederas) | 2018 Berlin Intl. Film Festival
Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi's feature debut is one of the more unique queer cinema film examples of recent memory in terms of offering a...
Audio Interview: Adina Pintilie – Touch Me Not
Adhering to a framework that borrows from her documentary and experimental background, Romanian filmmaker Adina Pintilie's first foray into fiction explores our own insecurities...
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead | 2018 Intl. Film Festival & Awards Macao Review
New Year’s Evil: Wheatley Finds Humanity Amid Caustic Bickering
Shapeshifting his way along a varied filmography, Ben Wheatley is back after the tongue-in-cheek gunplay bonanza...
Video Interview: Ben Wheatley – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead. | 2018 Intl. Film Festival & Awards Macao
Very much an eclectic, but at the same time cultivating a recognizable brand of cinema, Ben Wheatley is keeping busy these days with his...
Video Interview: Maxime Giroux – The Great Darkened Days
From working with a text about a path that is crossed with improbable odds in Felix et Meira, to the alienating, but nonetheless road...
Video Interview: Tuva Novotny & Pia Tjelta – Blind Spot
A film about the invisible manifestation of pain and sufferance, a good title substitute for Annihilation actress-turned-filmmaker Tuva Novotny's debut would be along the notion of...
Video Interview: Alejandra Márquez Abella – The Good Girls
Following her debut film Semana Santa (also a TIFF selection in 2015), which deals with the absence of a boy's father, Alejandra Márquez Abella...
Video Interview: Nadine Labaki – Capernaum
There is a sequence in Nadine Labaki's Capernaum where Zain (who now belongs to the Antoine Doinel film canon) proactively attempts to save the...
Interview: Artistic Director Christoph Terhechte | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
It's so incredibly difficult to press on the pause button for any major event, especially one that is dipped in gold type prestige. The...
Video Interview: Agustina Macri – Soledad | 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival
Based on a true story, Soledad is a well-observed, passionate feature debut from Agustina Macri (who is incidentally the oldest daughter of Mauricio, the...
Interview: Ewa Banaszkiewicz & Mateusz Dymek – My Friend the Polish Girl
After a Rotterdam (IFFR) premiere and further UK exposure through the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival, the directing duo of Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek...
Interview: Andréa Bescond & Eric Metayer – Little Tickles (Les chatouilles) | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
A creative collaboration that began in 2009 when Eric Métayer directed Andréa Bescond in her stage debut, the association proved fruitful as the pairing...
Interview: Meryem Benm’Barek – Sofia | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
By way of the young, unmarried Moroccan titular protagonist, Meryem Benm'Barek cuts her teeth with a piece that looks at the unwanted pregnancy under the...
Video Interview: Xavier Legrand – Custody (Jusqu’à la garde)
Custody (also know as Jusqu'à la garde) posits the viewer in the fiery of domestic violence by way of its broken family of four....
Interview: Lukas Dhont – Girl | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
In the same year that the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner A Fantastic Woman visited themes of identity and transition, Lukas Dhont's directorial...
Victor Polster – Lukas Dhont’s Girl | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Lara is an adolescent committed to becoming a professional ballerina and with the support of her father, she sees no limits to her pursuing...
Interview: Michael Pearce & Jessie Buckley – Beast
Unveiled at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Platform section with additional premieres at Sundance and Rotterdam earlier this year, Michael Pearce's directorial...
Interview: Andrea Pallaoro – Hannah
Rare are the film narratives that place so much emphasis on the backstory without...divulging it. Rare in cinema do we find unflappable and muted...
Interview: Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Kings)
We sat with Turkish-French director Deniz Gamze Ergüven after the premiere of her sophomore directorial effort Kings at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival....
Interview: Wim Wenders – Submergence
Globe-trotting, geopolitics and civil war are the wedges that place romantic connections in flux. No stranger to the human condition or working in a...
Interview: Michel Hazanavicius – Godard Mon Amour (aka Redoubtable)
Declared sacrilege the moment the project was announced, Michel Hazanavicius focuses on a critical, artistic, existential, and perhaps creative calamity period in both the masses...
Video Interview: Laura Mora – Killing Jesus
They say write what you know, but to what degree and to what depths is a whole other issue. Colombian filmmaker Laura Mora's second...
Audio Interview: Jens Assur – Ravens
Moving from photo journalism to the short form with sobering portraits in The Last Dog in Rwanda (2006) and one of the best shorts...
Interview: Jakob Rørvik – Thomas in 10 Dimensions | 2018 January Screenwriters Lab
He has already cracked the code sorta speak with the short film form (his shorts have preemed at Cannes and SXSW), and now current...
Interview: Yung Chang – Eggplant | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
If you know his filmography we get a strong sense of his pulse, where his interests might lie so it was nice to see...
Interview: Sophia Al-Maria – Beretta | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Sophia Al-Maria was already an accomplished, multi-disciplinarian artist, writer and author (The Girl Who Fell To Earth) prior to landing in the Screenwriters Lab...
Interview: Thomas Stuber – In the Aisle | 2018 Berlin Intl. Film Festival
Continuing with some of his lost souls interests found in his award-winning TIFF debut A Heavy Heart (2015), Thomas Stuber's sophomore feature film focuses on characters who...
