Theatre actor Xavier Legrand discusses directing his first feature, Custody, mixing realism and genre, working with a young actor, and thinking in frames.
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World Cinema
Under-the-radar non-English language filmmakers talk about their artistic processes.
‘There have been two big stories in my life — the AIDS crisis and the cinema’: Robin Campillo on BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Director Robin Campillo and actors Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and Arnaud Valois discuss the making of 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute), the importance of Act Up, and coming out of the AIDS closet.
[Read more…] about ‘There have been two big stories in my life — the AIDS crisis and the cinema’: Robin Campillo on BPM (Beats Per Minute)Elizaveta Stishova on Suleiman Mountain and the Kyrgyzstan film industry
Suleiman Mountain director Elizaveta Stishova talks tragedy and farce, the film industry in Kyrgyzstan, and being a woman in rural Kyrgyzstan.
[Read more…] about Elizaveta Stishova on Suleiman Mountain and the Kyrgyzstan film industry‘What I really wanted to know was: ‘Why did we stay?’’: Mila Turajlic on the trauma of ex-Yugoslavia in The Other Side of Everything
In Mila Turajlic’s doc The Other Side of Everything, a Serbian apartment divided under communism is a symbol of a difficult past lingering in the present.
[Read more…] about ‘What I really wanted to know was: ‘Why did we stay?’’: Mila Turajlic on the trauma of ex-Yugoslavia in The Other Side of EverythingErika Cohn talks doc The Judge on the first female Shari’a judge in the Middle East
Documentarian Erika Cohn discusses making a film about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, encouraging dialogue, telling a character-driven story, and questioning cliches.
[Read more…] about Erika Cohn talks doc The Judge on the first female Shari’a judge in the Middle East‘In my country, realism is surrealism!’: Kamila Andini on her dreamlike film The Seen and Unseen
Indonesian director Kamila Andini discusses her abstract and fantastic sophomore feature The Seen and Unseen, holism, and the thrill of the unknown.
[Read more…] about ‘In my country, realism is surrealism!’: Kamila Andini on her dreamlike film The Seen and Unseen