INTERVIEWS

Conversations, chats, and critical thoughts with filmmakers and all those involved with the moving image.

Annapurna Sriram at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
'This is feminist, this isn’t fantastical': Annapurna Sriram on 'Fucktoys'
KVIFF 2025: We spoke to the Nashville-born filmmaker to discuss the worldbuilding in Trashtown, USA, and rejecting the expectation of what a feminist film and a critique of capitalism need to look like.
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'How are you going to light reality?': Manoël Dupont on 'Before / After'
KVIFF 2025: The first-time feature director speaks about creating an immensely collaborative and inanimate product based on improvisation and small shifts from so-called "reality".
Actor Benjamin Turnbull (left) and Director Devin Shears (right) of 'Cherub'
'It’s about being seen': Devin Shears and Benjamin Turnbull on ‘Cherub’
INSIDE OUT 2025: From graduation project to festival favourite, the director and actor discuss sincerity, vulnerability, and forming relationships through images.
Paula Tomás Marques, director of ‘Two Times João Liberada’
'The writing of history has to be messier—it has to encounter this impossibility of crystallisation': Paula Tomás Marques on ‘Two Times João Liberada’
INDIELISBOA 2025: The writer-director shares her perspective on the disruption of standardised historical narratives, the politics of representation, and fostering materiality that evokes the power of archival work.
Directors Ivan Leung (right) and Harrison Xu of 'Extremely Unique Dynamic'
'This interview is a meta extension of the film': Ivan Leung and Harrison Xu on 'Extremely Unique Dynamic'
QUEER EAST 2025: The long-time friends and now directors offer a look into what they really wanted to create, as filmmakers, in their riotous comedic debut feature.
A still from Kani Lapuerta's "Niñxs".
'The film was a reclamation of this right to imagine our lives, our stories': Kani Lapuerta on 'Niñxs'
VISIONS DU RÉEL 2025: Mexican filmmaker Kani Lapuerta shares his experience of spending eight years bringing us into the joyous world of Karla, a young trans girl living in a town outside of Mexico City.
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