Thierry Demaizière & Alban Teurlai: “The kids are so used to the cameras that ours was just one more”
Documentaries expose the truth, and the nuances that they can convey are so much stronger than any performance delivered by an actor.
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Berlinale review: Four Nights (2021) by Deepak Rauniyar
The script is jointly written by Magrati and Rauniyar and inspired by their own trials.
Ines Alves: “I wasn’t really after making a film”
Inês T. Alves’ debut feature film Waters of Pastaza was born by pure chance. When she moved to Suwa, an isolated community of about 80 inhabitants in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest to participate in the project with local children, giving them film workshops, she realized that she was experiencing something inspiring.
Berlinale review: Kind Hearts (2022)
It is a good thing that Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes’s didn’t try to be that fly on the wall in their fifth joint project Kind Hearts…
Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes: “Documentaries are also a form of fiction”
Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes are at the Berlinale with their latest documentary Kind Hearts which screens in the Generation 14+ program.
Berlinale review: By Flavio (2022)
In Pedro Cabeleira’s short drama By Flavio some clichés are deconstructed and other cemented in a story which centers around the ambition by a young single mother to come close to a local celebrity
Sundance review: Reckless (2022)
In a near dystopian future (an estimate based on fashion) humankind has moved to live below the ocean, in the probably only liveable place left for the former inhabitants of Earth.
Xin Alessandro Zheng: It is funny that me becoming a director happened as an accident
Jia Zhangke is one of my biggest inspirations because his films remind me a lot of my phantasy about China represented through my grandparents’ stories about “their times”
Montserrat Cattaneo: “Volcanoes are like giant gods who can protect you or destroy you”
While I was writing the script, I had the lead actress Xochitl Galindres on my mind
