Carla Simón’s outstanding debut feature, Summer 1993, chosen as Spain’s 2018 Foreign Language Oscar submission, explores the contradictory ways in which six-year-old Frida processes the deaths of her parents.
London Film Festival
Review: Ava uses the onset of blindness as a coming-of-age metaphor
Director Léa Mysius makes an impressive debut with Ava, which respectfully and unblinkingly grants Ava’s wish to be seen before she goes blind.
Director Xavier Legrand on his Silver Lion winning debut Custody
Theatre actor Xavier Legrand discusses directing his first feature, Custody, mixing realism and genre, working with a young actor, and thinking in frames.