FRED’s Nicolò Comotti interviews Senem Tuzen, director of the film ANA YURDU (Motherland) from the International Critics Week section of the 72nd Venice Film Festival. Senem Tuzen reveals the secrets and influences behind her intense feature.
ANA YURDU (Motherland): Nesrin, an urban middle class woman recovering from a divorce, goes back to her deceased grandmother’s old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and live out her dream of being a writer. When her conservative mother turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, Nesrin’s writing stalls and her fantasies of village life turn bitter. The two women are forced to confront the darker corners of each other’s inner worlds
Project Manager Nikola Joetze and Programme Manager Tobias Pausinger on this year’s theme: “Creating (and) Confusion – Cinema, Chaos and the Power of Discomfort.”.
The Berlinale Pro* Director Tanja Meissner introduces the numerous new initiatives the EFM is starting this year such as the EFM Animation Days, EFM Beyond and EFM Frontières Focus
Discover the secrets of the Co-Production Market at Berlinale—top projects, selection process, and how it fuels international collaborations in film and series, through the words of is Head, Martina Bleis.