Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
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Actions that affect the rest of our lives, explored in one of the Hivos Tiger Award winning films of 2015.
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Actions that affect the rest of our lives, explored in one of the Hivos Tiger Award winning films of 2015.
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Ikeda Akira, Director, Screenwriter and Producer, Anatomy of a Paper Clip. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Japanese filmmaker IKEDA AKIRA chats to FRED about his feature ANATOMY OF A PAPER CLIP (Yamamori clip koujo no atari), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Kogure is a paperclip bender in a paperclip factory. A man without characteristics. A stoical loser. One day he finds a butterfly in …
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Lee Chatametikool, Director, Screenwriter, Co-Editor, Concrete Clouds. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Filmmaker Lee Chatametikool talks about his new film CONCRETE CLOUDS (Pavang rak), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Father jumps off roof. Economy caves in. Childhood sweetheart remains out of reach. Nice girl next door slides into prostitution. Elder brother knows better. Younger brother has no idea. Only a very special filmmaker could turn that …
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Fellipe Barbosa, Director and Co-Screenwriter, Casa Grande. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Filmmaker Fellipe Barbosa talks to FRED about his film CASA GRANDE, which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Jean (17) is growing up in the elite district of Rio, with its private schools, drivers and housekeepers. While he tries to escape from his over-protective parents, they keep their approaching bankruptcy secret. This beautifully played coming-of-age film …
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Tatjana Božic, Director, Happily Ever After. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Filmmaker Tatjana Božic talks to FRED about her very personal documentary feature HAPPILY EVER AFTER, which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Filmmaker Tatjana Božic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War. She roamed in different relationships through different countries before settling in Holland. For the film and to save her present relationship, the girl with the red …
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Luis Miñarro, Director, Co-Producer and Co-Screenwriter, Stella Cadente. Festival section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. The beautiful tableaux are filled with casual references to art and literature, from Baudelaire to Lucian Freud and Caravaggio. Reporter: Matt Micucci.
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Ester Martin Bergsmark, Director, Co-Screenwriter and Editor, Something Must Break. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Filmmaker Ester Martin Bergsmark talks to FRED about his film SOMETHING MUST BREAK (Nånting måste gå sönder), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. 'It should smell of strong emotions', Bergsmark has said of his debut. And it does, this love story set in Stockholm in summer, between androgynous Sebastian (who likes to …
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Natalia Meschaninova, Director and Co-Screenwriter, The Hope Factory. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Russian filmmaker Natalia Meschaninova talks about her feature THE HOPE FACTORY (Kombinat Nadezhda), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Industrial city of Norilsk: factories, cold, chemical air. The only desire of young people living here is to leave, against all odds. A docu-style, emotionally-driven drama about a young girl desperately fighting for an escape …
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Paulo Sacramento, Director, Riocorrente. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Filmmaker Paulo Sacramento talks about his new feature film RIOCORRENTE (Riverrun), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. A film like a pressure cooker. The São Paulo metropolis seems like it's about to explode in this energetic and urgent fiction debut. Everything is set in irreversible motion when a woman is torn apart by desire for two very different men. Reporter: …