“I wanted to make a film that was about the political ghosts of Brazil, the ones that linger on the landscape.” — Janaina Wagner interview by Savina Petkova interview by Savina Petkova ‘Curupira and the Machine of the Destiny’, which screened at the London Short Film Festival’s International Competition, is one of the most …
“I want to destroy the boundaries between documentary and fiction” — Jonas Erler interview by Verena Bracher At the 33rd FILMFEST DRESDEN, the initiative ‘Connecting Talents’ made young filmmakers from Germany and the Visegrád states come together …
Breaking The Norm A conversation with Pedro Neves Marques interview by Līga Požarska Pedro Neves Marques talks about their latest short film, 'Becoming Male in the Middle Ages', which celebrates its North-American premiere …
Faking The Truth A LOOK AT THE OEUVRE OF AUSTRIAN FILMMAKER CHRISTOPH SCHWARZ interview by Susanne Gottlieb Austrian filmmaker Christoph Schwarz knows how to unravel pointed observations of life and society by playing ironically with elements of …
A Rotating Search for a State of Harmony A talk with filmmaker Taymour Boulos about anxiety, laundromats and cats interview by Bo Alfaro Decreton There’s this thing about laundromats. They are both uninviting and attractive. Perhaps because time feels to have taken a halt there and …
“I wanted the film to be a kind of lament, a way of grieving something that is yet to come” — Marta Pajek interview by Mariana Hristova On the occasion of the screening of ‘Impossible Figures and other stories I’ at this year’s Glasgow Short Film Festival, but also to mark …
“Life is so much more liberating if we are able not to have categories of how one should be.” — Dania Bdeir interview by Niv Fux With Tampere Film Festival taking place last week, we had the opportunity to talk to Lebanese-Canadian writer and director Dania Bdeir, who …
