Photographer Matthieu Rytz turned to documentary filmmaking to tell the story of an island that will soon be eradicated by rising sea levels with Anote’s Ark.
Film Interviews
Interviews with female directors / Index of Interviews
Here you will find all of our interviews with film directors, actors, cinematographers, and more.
The Night of all Nights asks: How do couples stay together?
The Night of All Nights director Yasemin Samdereli worked through doubts about her own marriage by making a documentary about long-term relationships.
Blowin’ Up: Inside a courtroom that protects sex workers
Director Stephanie Wang-Breal on portraying sex workers with dignity in her documentary Blowin’ Up.
Interview: Chloé Zhao on The Rider, her feminist film about masculinity
Chloé Zhao discusses The Rider and making a feminist film on masculinity. Read our interview with cinematographer Joshua James Richards on shooting the film. Winner of the top prize at Directors’ Fortnight, Chloé Zhao’s The Rider follows a young cowboy, Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau), forced to reconsider his dreams and priorities after a rodeo incident […]
Claire Simon: ‘It’s not that it’s realistic but that it’s the truth’
Simon talks about making her new documentary, Premières Solitudes, tackling teenage frustrations, being truthful on camera, and the position of the adult filmmaker vis-a-vis her young subjects.
‘You only address colonialism with solemn seriousness if you don’t experience it daily’: Lucrecia Martel on Zama
Argentine director Lucrecia Martel discusses Zama, colonialism, violent masculinity, and how absurdist humour is a potent way to criticize both.