Learning to Breathe: A Conversation with Joanna Hogg Leonardo Goi April 2020 Conversations with Filmmakers Across the Globe “She hasn’t had anything since breakfast,” a publicist warns me, nodding at the lady nibbling on a salad and chatting with a journalist a few tables a...
Reaching Into History: Radu Jude on Uppercase Print and The Exit of the Trains Hugo Emmerzael April 2020 Conversations with Filmmakers Across the Globe When Radu Jude emerged on the film festival circuit in 2009 with his feature debut, Cea mal ferictã fatã din lume (The Happiest Girl in the World), he...
“Home, far away from Home”: Truong Minh Quý on The Tree House Andrew Northrop April 2020 Conversations with Filmmakers Across the Globe In Vietnam, the Jarai people engage in a spiritual practice around tomb houses – small huts containing mementos from deceased community members. They ...
“Resistance is part of the process”: A Conversation with Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese Wilfred Okiche April 2020 Conversations with Filmmakers Across the Globe Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese wants a smoke. We meet at Park City’s Main Street, the extremely busy heart of the Sundance film festival where Mosese is ...
The Year of the (Re-)Discovery: A Conversation with Luis López Carrasco Leonardo Goi April 2020 Conversations with Filmmakers Across the Globe “I think cinema has helped me turn sadness into anger. But this is not an angry picture.” From the third floor of de Doelen, Luis López Carrasco stare...
A Simple Life: Arun Karthick on Nasir Leonardo Goi April 2020 Conversations with Filmmakers Across the Globe At the young age of 27, Tamil cineaste Arun Karthick has already taken Rotterdam twice. In 2016, his debut feature The Strange Case of Shiva found a s...
Slowly Diving from Reality Into Fantasy: A Conversation with João Pedro Rodrigues Tomáš Hudák April 2020 Conversations with Filmmakers Across the Globe João Pedro Rodrigues’ films are portraits of misfits. In O Fantasma (Phantom, 2000), it’s a young garbage collector who lives in a tiny flat and canno...
Women’s Cinematic Heights in Times of Covid: An Interview with Eliza Hittman Brigitta Wagner April 2020 Conversations with Filmmakers Across the Globe A million years ago, or what feels about that long, Berlin got away with one of the last major film festivals before Covid-19 halted not just life as ...
