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Ana _Stanic


283 articles available in total starting from 29/02/2020. Last article published on 22/07/2025.

Gizem Erdogan  • Actress

Interview: Gizem Erdogan • Actress

"There are so many stories that haven’t been told yet and I wish to be a part of them"

BERLINALE 2023: The Swedish actress tells us about how she became an actress, and about the social responsibility of her profession  

24/02/2023 | European Shooting Stars 2023

Kristine Kujath Thorp  • Actress

Interview: Kristine Kujath Thorp • Actress

"Art has a huge responsibility in showing the world and educate people trough emotions"

BERLINALE 2023: The Norwegian actress discusses cinema as a tool to change the world and how that plays an important key in her profession  

18/02/2023 | European Shooting Stars 2023

Fatmir Koci • Director of The Rise & Fall Of Comrade Zylo

Interview: Fatmir Koci • Director of The Rise & Fall Of Comrade Zylo

"This impossible love story set during the Albanian dictatorship chimes with today"

The Albanian filmmaker discusses his comedy reflecting the dark side of the common history in Eastern Europe  

09/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics' Picks

Mona J Hoel • Director of Night

Interview: Mona J Hoel • Director of Night

"I developed this story out of my own experience of domestic violence"

The Norwegian director discusses her newest feature, which portrays the struggles of a married woman who is forced to travel to the faraway place where her husband lives to face him  

01/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Ivan Gergolet • Director of The Man Without Guilt

Interview: Ivan Gergolet • Director of The Man Without Guilt

"The way out of revenge, of being hurt and feeling devastated, is forgiveness"

The Italian filmmaker talks about his first feature, which follows the journey through loss and suffering of a widow of a worker who died from an asbestos-related disease  

01/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | First Feature Competition

Marko Šantić • Director of Wake Me

Interview: Marko Šantić • Director of Wake Me

"My lead character’s fate is a sort of metaphor for the revisionism of history in the Balkans, but also in Europe"

The Slovenian director talks about his fourth feature, a film about redemption and the relations between Slovenians and immigrants from other parts of former Yugoslavia.  

30/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics' Picks

Gentian Koçi • Director of A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On

Interview: Gentian Koçi • Director of A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On

"This story and these characters, who are forced to invent a completely new language, challenged me in my use of film language"

The Albanian director discusses his film, which follows two identical deaf-mute twin brothers who discover they will also progressively and irreversibly become blind  

30/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Dana Nechushtan • Director of Piece of My Heart

Interview: Dana Nechushtan • Director of Piece of My Heart

"This story is ultimately about friendship between two women"

The Israeli-born Dutch director talks about her film, a psychologically mercilessly tense tale about two dancers who understand each other without words  

30/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Adrian Goiginger • Director of The Fox

Interview: Adrian Goiginger • Director of The Fox

"Taking care of the fox cub kept my great-grandfather sane in the midst of the horrible events he witnessed"

We met up with the Austrian director to discuss his great-grandfather’s personal experience during the Second World War, a story which became the centre of his film  

28/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Filip Heraković • Director of Pelican

Interview: Filip Heraković • Director of Pelican

"This is a coming-of-age story, but with an adult"

This Croatian filmmaker discusses his film about the existential pursuit of an injured footballer in a spa resort, which received a Special Jury Prize in the festival's First Feature Competition  

28/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | First Feature Competition

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