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376 articles available in total starting from 09/04/2018. Last article published on 23/04/2024.

Matthias Helwig • Director, Fünf Seen Filmfestival

Interview: Matthias Helwig • Director, Fünf Seen Filmfestival

“We have to start almost from scratch to inspire people to come and watch films – and I am ready to do so”

The head honcho of the Fünf Seen Filmfestival, perched on the outskirts of Munich, tells us more about its focus on movies from the German-speaking world  

24/08/2022 | /Germany

André Schäfer • Director of Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth.

Interview: André Schäfer • Director of Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth.

"And this is how a novel has to be in my opinion, it has to capture, to swallow you"

The German filmmaker presents a warm-hearted and formally intriguing portrait of Swiss author Martin Suter  

22/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Piazza Grande

Patricia Mazuy • Director of Saturn Bowling

Interview: Patricia Mazuy • Director of Saturn Bowling

"I had to embrace the subject, and to show courage"

The French director discusses her very dark film noir with a very scary protagonist  

16/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Alessandro Comodin • Director of The Adventures of Gigi the Law

Interview: Alessandro Comodin • Director of The Adventures of Gigi the Law

"The film is in a way a tribute to these typical village characters"

In his latest film, awarded with the festival's Special Jury Prize, the Italian filmmaker explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Ann Oren • Director of Piaffe

Interview: Ann Oren • Director of Piaffe

"I was very much interested in the psychology of dressage, in the relationship between rider and horse"

The Israeli-born, Berlin-based filmmaker discusses her formally ambitious first feature film  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Caterina Mona • Director of Semret

Interview: Caterina Mona • Director of Semret

"We wanted to concentrate on the people and the camera had to follow them"

The Swiss filmmaker discusses her film, a portrait of an Eritrean woman's delicate balancing act between her wish to preserve her old habits and her need to integrate into her new culture  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Piazza Grande

Bianca Lucas • Director of Love Dog

Interview: Bianca Lucas • Director of Love Dog

"I think everything you see is an extreme version of a person that exists in all of us"

In her first feature film, the Polish director tries to give a realistic insight into the grieving process  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Cineasti del presente

Nikolaus Geyrhalter • Director of Matter Out of Place

Interview: Nikolaus Geyrhalter • Director of Matter Out of Place

"Everything we produce or use ends up to be trash at some point"

The Austrian documentary maker gives a multi-perspective view of the global handling of trash  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Delphine Lehericey • Director of Last Dance

Interview: Delphine Lehericey • Director of Last Dance

"Between La Ribot and me it was love at first sight on the professional level, we were like work sisters"

The Swiss-born, Belgium-based filmmaker discusses how the worlds of contemporary dance and cinema merge perfectly in her love story  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Piazza Grande

Julie Lerat-Gersant • Director of Little Ones

Interview: Julie Lerat-Gersant • Director of Little Ones

“The actresses were distracted from their own acting and this made everything feel much more authentic and natural”

The French director discusses her film, in which a teenager needs to find the way to break free from her mother in order to decide about the fate of the child she is pregnant with  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Cineasti del presente

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