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Ana _Stanic


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

Giedrius Tamoševičius • Director of The Poet

Interview: Giedrius Tamoševičius • Director of The Poet

“Man's basic instincts and feelings are not subject to time, but we can analyse them and draw our own conclusions”

The Lithuanian director spoke to us about his latest film, co-written with Vytautas V Landsbergis, about a newly appointed teacher who arrives at a remote village school in 1947  

28/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Baltic Film Competition

Hilmar Oddsson, Hera Hilmar • Director of and actress in Driving Mum

Interview: Hilmar Oddsson, Hera Hilmar • Director of and actress in Driving Mum

"All good comedies are also tragedies"

We met up with the Icelandic director and his daughter, and actress in his latest film, to talk about inspiration and characters  

25/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

J-P Valkeapää • Director of Hit Big

Interview: J-P Valkeapää • Director of Hit Big

"While writing this script during lockdown, in this atmosphere where you were scared of dying, I realised that this film was about the end of the world"

We met up with the Finnish director and talked about his inspirations when writing and creating his new film  

24/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Interview: Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

"It was very important for me to show how the story is put together in the film, that the story didn’t exist prior to it"

The Serbian director discusses the second part of her dyptich of documentaries, which re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement during the era of decolonization  

24/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

Lea Glob • Director of Apolonia, Apolonia

Interview: Lea Glob • Director of Apolonia, Apolonia

"I try to find imagery that represents what the world looks like from our perspective as young women"

The Danish filmmaker discusses her IDFA-winning documentary, centred on French artist Apolonia Sokol as well as on her own views of the current world  

22/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

Juraj Lerotić  • Director of Safe Place

Interview: Juraj Lerotić • Director of Safe Place

“My film is about a traumatic event, a sudden rift in everyday life, a loss of control”

We got the chance to talk to the director of the Cineuropa Award-winning film, the protagonist of which is caught between the unlimited support of his family and a dysfunctional health system  

31/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Vedrana Pribačić, Mirta Puhlovski  • Director and screenwriter of Bigger than Trauma

Interview: Vedrana Pribačić, Mirta Puhlovski • Director and screenwriter of Bigger than Trauma

"We wanted to show the healing process of the women traumatised by war and rape, but from their inner person"

The Croatian film about female victims of war crimes won the Human Rights Award in the festival's Documentary Competition, and its creators talk to us about it  

24/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Documentary Competition

Igor Ivanko  • Director of Fragile Memory

Interview: Igor Ivanko • Director of Fragile Memory

"The film archive of my grandfather (and cinematographer) is unique because it is a personal as well a professional one"

The Ukrainian filmmaker talks about what's behind his work, which has just received the Special Jury Award in the festival's Documentary Competition  

24/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Documentary Competition

Noemi Veronika Szakonyi  • Director of Six Weeks

Interview: Noemi Veronika Szakonyi • Director of Six Weeks

"The six-week adoption law in Hungary is a very suspenseful situation for a film"

The Hungarian filmmaker discusses her film, which follows a young mother of an unwanted child who has six weeks to change her mind and get her child back, if she so wishes  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Dominik Mencej  • Director of Riders

Interview: Dominik Mencej • Director of Riders

"This is the Slovenian version of Easy Rider, structured like a memory of recent times"

The Slovenian filmmaker talks about how he looked back at the recent past of the Balkans while drawing inspiration from Dennis Hopper's landmark film  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

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