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200 articles available in total starting from 29/02/2020. Last article published on 07/03/2024.

Batbayar Chogsom  • Director of White Flag

Interview: Batbayar Chogsom • Director of White Flag

"In this film, nobody loses anything, but they do find something - their real selves"

The Mongolian director delves into his Tallinn Competition entry, which hinges on two young women trying to start a new life in the steppe as nomads  

19/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Ivan Tymchenko  • Director of Oxygen Station

Interview: Ivan Tymchenko • Director of Oxygen Station

"The main message of the film is still relevant, regardless of the war"

The Ukrainian helmer discusses his Tallinn Competition entry, which follows a Crimean Tatar political activist who is now a people’s deputy of the Ukrainian parliament  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Călin Peter Netzer • Director of Familiar

Interview: Călin Peter Netzer • Director of Familiar

"This is a personal story, but with fictional elements"

The Romanian Golden Bear winner discusses his latest work, which follows a filmmaker trying to make a film about the lives of his parents in the most dangerous years of Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Ivan Marinović • Director of Forever Hold Your Peace

Interview: Ivan Marinović • Director of Forever Hold Your Peace

"It's a comedy, but it's almost like a disaster movie, where the 'Godzilla' is a traditional Montenegrin wedding"

The Montenegrin director discusses his heartwarming and explosive comedy about a very special wedding  

16/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Jaap van Heusden and Rogier de Blok • Director and screenwriter of The Man from Rome

Interview: Jaap van Heusden and Rogier de Blok • Director and screenwriter of The Man from Rome

"With so much bullshit flooding in, you can't operate a society or a democracy if nobody knows what to believe in"

The Dutch filmmakers discuss their film centred on a priest, a modern-day crusader on a quest to save mankind from darkness  

14/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Sudabeh Mortezai  • Director of Europa

Interview: Sudabeh Mortezai • Director of Europa

"We don't have a script in real life"

The filmmaker discusses her new film, which follows a businesswoman on her work trip to rural Albania to facilitate a deal between the local landowners and the company she works for  

23/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Competition

Giorgi Parkosadze  • Director of Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer

Interview: Giorgi Parkosadze • Director of Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer

"My film works on an intuitive level"

The Georgian filmmaker discusses his film, which zooms in the subtle transformations people undergo in remote, rural Georgia  

23/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Documentary Competition

Olivér Rudolf, Zsigmond Kungl and Genovéva Petrovits  • Director, co-writer and producer of My Mother, The Monster

Interview: Olivér Rudolf, Zsigmond Kungl and Genovéva Petrovits • Director, co-writer and producer of My Mother, The Monster

"This film is an oath to rebellion"

The Hungarian team discusses what's behind their project, winner of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at CineLink Industry Days  

22/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | CineLink Industry Days

Nemanja Vojinović  • Director of Bottlemen

Interview: Nemanja Vojinović • Director of Bottlemen

"I aimed to create an observational documentary, with the narrative driving force of fiction"

The Serbian director discusses his film, a dive into one of Europe's largest unsanitary landfills, set in a suburb of Belgrade, which snagged the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary  

21/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Documentary Competition

Una Gunjak  • Director of Excursion

Interview: Una Gunjak • Director of Excursion

"A film is a living animal; it never comes out the way you imagine it on paper"

The Bosnian director talks about her first feature Excursion, which depicts the turmoil of adolescence through a young woman who doesn’t intend to play by society’s heteropatriarchal rules  

21/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Out of Competition

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