Every year, in Bergamo, Italy, a small film festival honours titans of European cinema, dusts up lesser known talents, and showcases the most exciting new …
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‘I wanted to give faces to the refugees’: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun on A Season in France
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun discusses his latest film A Season in France, which follows a refugee and his family as they hope to be granted the permission to stay in …
Christian Petzold discusses Transit
Christian Petzold tells us about finding the past within the present (and vice versa), adapting a novel without re-reading it, and much more. …
‘My films are portraits; I try to make my characters live.’ Mia Hansen-Løve on Maya
Mia Hansen-Løve tells us about her interest in people who stay in the shadows, her motivations behind choosing locations, the way she works with her actors, and …
‘For me, cinema is where we can speak to our own fragility and vulnerability’: Mikhaël Hers discusses Amanda
Mikhaël Hers talks about his approach to tragedy in Amanda, which follows a young girl and her uncle as they reckon with the consequences of a terrorist attack. …
Birds of Passage co-director Ciro Guerra on genre, tragedy, and hope
Ciro Guerra discusses telling a familiar story in an original way, using genre as a Trojan horse for ideas, and much more. Read our interview with co-director …
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