INTERVIEWS

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

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.
'Ride or Die' director Josalynn Smith
'I’m really interested in the aesthetics of Americana when you put queer people, Black people in those spaces': Josalynn Smith on ‘Ride or Die’
TRIBECA 2025: The debuting director shares how drawing from personal conversations and queer cinema from the '90s helped her create one of the strongest queer road movies of recent years.
Paula Tomás Marques, director of ‘Two Times João Liberada’
'The writing of history has to be messier': 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.
Left to right: Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon, directors of 'Night Stage'
'It's important to us that desire wins': Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher on 'Night Stage'
BFI FLARE 2025: The Brazilian writer-director duo talks performance, life's perpetual push-and-pulls, and provoking the audience's horniness in their erotic thriller.
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