The TV-film remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant that the crew in Casting is working on, is not going well – to say the least. Director Vera is more at home on a …
Living in the Moment
Pörksen's previous shorts film Sometimes We Sit and Think and Sometimes We Just Sit also focused on an older character, a fifty-something man who chooses to already live in a retirement facility. …
Featherlight Family
Martín, a single guy in his early forties, is invited to come housesit while his distant cousin Bruno and his wife Consuelo are away for work in Europe. In no time at all he has lost the family cat …
“The violent emotions are there, just buried”
In Hers's films, the places his stories take place are often the instigators. That's true for This Summer Feeling as well. "I made my first four films within an area of a few square kilometers, in the …
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“I never killed any of my pets”
Where did the original idea for the film come from? "A picture of a diver in a fishbowl occured to me and it started me thinking about what kind of creature could keep a human scuba diver as a pet. …
“The end of the world forces you to find meaning in the present”
The idea for Yearbook came to him when he was touring film festivals with his previous short film Wisdom Teeth, Britto explains. "I became overwhelmed by the amount of movies that are made every year. …
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“The most taboo version of Would You Rather possible”
How fucked up was your childhood...? I'm sorry, I meant to say: where did the idea for A Reasonable Request come from? "Actually, both co-writer Gabriel Miller and I come from fairly stable nuclear …
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“I wanted to see for myself”
The international title of Dörrie's film points to Alain Resnais's classic Hiroshima mon amour. Just as that film attempts to come to grips with the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, …
“We treated it like a piece of theatre”
Thinking back on it now, Weber says that the initial idea for the short feels like "a faint, fractured grasp" of what the film eventually became. "It was only after we cast that I realised what I was …
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“I embrace the inconsistencies”
Fast was born in Israel, grew up in the United States and now lives and works in Berlin. While his previous work has mostly been shown in museum or exhibition settings, he has been moving towards …
“Making the film was like group therapy”
“The film was developed at the Binger writer's lab in Amsterdam in 2010. That's kind of long ago, and I rewrote the film completely after that. But it was really good because I met all these other …
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A real wolf in every shot
When Ania sees a wolf in the park outside her appartment complex, it's the start of turning around her life, leaving behind her desk job and releasing her wild side. The first inkling for the film …
