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301 articles available in total starting from 29/02/2020. Last article published on 26/11/2025.

Una Gunjak  • Director of Excursion

Interview: Una Gunjak • Director of Excursion

"A film is a living animal; it never comes out the way you imagine it on paper"

The Bosnian director talks about her first feature, which depicts the turmoil of adolescence through a young woman who doesn’t intend to play by society’s heteropatriarchal rules  

21/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Out of Competition

Goran Dević  • Director of What's to Be Done?

Interview: Goran Dević • Director of What's to Be Done?

"In the film, the viewer and society also serve as the main characters"

The Croatian filmmaker discusses his latest work, which approaches workers’ rights, corruption and governments’ disdain for ordinary people through the case of a 120-year-old train factory  

21/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Documentary Competition

Christina Ioakeimidi • Director of Medium

Interview: Christina Ioakeimidi • Director of Medium

"I wanted this story to transcend time and place"

The Greek director discusses her second film, which follows a young woman in love moving through the world in an insecure but steadfast way  

18/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Competition

Tudor Giurgiu & Cecilia Stefanescu • Director and writer of Libertate

Interview: Tudor Giurgiu & Cecilia Stefanescu • Director and writer of Libertate

"This particular episode about the chaos of the revolution in the aftermath of Ceaușescu's downfall is not well known in Romania"

The director and the screenwriter discuss their film, in which they explore the civil war-like events that took place in Sibiu during the last days of 1989's Romanian Revolution  

18/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Competition

Martina Dlabajová • Member of the European Parliament

Interview: Martina Dlabajová • Member of the European Parliament

“It is essential for society as a whole to reject divisive rhetoric, promote human rights and create an inclusive environment”

The Czech MEP delves into her enthusiasm for the LUX Audience Award and her take on the prospects for the European media industry, amongst other topics  

12/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

Luka Beradze • Director of Smiling Georgia

Interview: Luka Beradze • Director of Smiling Georgia

"I would like politicians to understand what these false promises do to the common people and change their attitudes"

The Georgian director breaks down his debut feature, which paints a delicate portrait of a part of his home country that is very beautiful but profoundly lonely  

11/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Special Screenings

Sahraa Karimi and Wanda Adamík Hrycová • Director and producer of Flight from Kabul

Interview: Sahraa Karimi and Wanda Adamík Hrycová • Director and producer of Flight from Kabul

"We're going to make this film for the women of Afghanistan and for a free Afghanistan"

The director and the producer discuss their project, which follows an Afghan filmmaker whose wedding plans are destroyed when the Taliban seize Kabul  

10/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

Kyros Papavassiliou  • Director of Embryo Larva Butterfly

Interview: Kyros Papavassiliou • Director of Embryo Larva Butterfly

"What does choice mean if you know what is going to happen in your life?"

The Cypriot director discusses his new film, set in a place where time doesn’t flow, where the days appear randomly in the past, the present, and the future  

10/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Proxima

Alexandru Solomon • Director of Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife

Interview: Alexandru Solomon • Director of Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife

"I hope that instead of seeking salvation in Heaven, we begin to correct issues here on Earth"

The Romanian filmmaker talks about his second documentary, which portrays Romania's obsession with Arsenie Boca, a priest, theologian, and mystic persecuted by the communist regime  

10/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Proxima

Emilie Brisavoine • Director of Keeping Mum

Interview: Emilie Brisavoine • Director of Keeping Mum

"Even if this is an intimate investigation of the relationship with my mother, our sufferings are universal"

The French director unpicks her second documentary, a captivating and poignant portrait of her mother and of the relationship between them  

10/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Proxima

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