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World Cinema

Under-the-radar non-English language filmmakers talk about their artistic processes.

Elite Zexer

Alex Heeney / February 1, 2016

Elite Zexer on Jury Prize Winner Sand Storm

Zexer and lead actress Ammar talk about preparing for the film, how Zexer prioritized performance when shooting the film, and the knockout ending.

Wild, Nicolette Kribetz

Alex Heeney / January 30, 2016

Writer-director Nicolette Kribetz discusses Wild

German writer-director Nicolette Kribetz’s film Wild is a strange, dream-like journey of sexual and physical liberation. At Sundance, Kribetz and lead actress Lilith Stangenberg discussed the genesis of the story, creating the character, and the ways in which men and women are confined by social norms.

Alex Heeney / August 23, 2015

Director Hubert Sauper talks We Come As Friends

Hubert Sauper discusses making his film We Come as Friends, creative nonfiction cinema, and the geography of colonialism. This is an excerpt from the ebook In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1.

White God, Kornel Mundruczo

Alex Heeney / March 27, 2015

Director Kornél Mundruczó and Animal Trainer Teresa Miller talk White God

Director Kornél Mundruczó and animal trainer Teresa Miller on White God, aesthetic approach, street dogs, and the importance of “Hungarian Rhapsody.”

Céline Sciamma, Girlhood

Alex Heeney / February 1, 2015

‘Cinema is the only art ever where you share somebody’s loneliness’ and other insights from Céline Sciamma

Céline Sciamma discusses her third film Girlhood: the genesis of the film, how cinema is the only art form in which you can share someone else’s loneliness, and how she created the remarkable Rihanna scene.

Ine Wilmann, Anne Sewitsky

Alex Heeney / January 30, 2015

Director Anne Sewitsky and actress Ine Wilmann on Homesick

Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky’s (Happy, Happy) wonderful new film, Homesick, screened at the Sundance Film Festival this week in the World Dramatic Competition. Starring Ine Marie Wilmann, who gives a terrific performance, the film follows a late 20-something children’s dance teacher, Charlotte, who, because she never received any real parental love, has become desperate, clingy, and […]

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