Director Sébastian Pilote and actress Karelle Tremblay discuss their award-winning coming-of-age story, The Fireflies Are Gone (La Disparition des Lucioles). …
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World Cinema
Under-the-radar non-English language filmmakers talk about their artistic processes.
Director Alaa Eddine Aljem on The Unknown Saint
Moroccan director Alaa Eddine Aljem discusses his first feature, The Unknown Saint, a comic and absurdist fable about the intersection of faith and commerce. …
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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
In this interview, Christian Petzold tells us about finding the past within the present (and vice versa) in Transit, adapting a novel without re-reading it, 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 Birds of Passage, telling a familiar story in an original way, using genre as a Trojan horse for ideas, and much more. Read our interview …
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