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Ana Stanic


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

Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze and Taki Mumladze • Director of and actress in A Room of My Own

Interview: Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze and Taki Mumladze • Director of and actress in A Room of My Own

"This film was made thanks to the help of our friends, and our ambition is to be the voice of young people in Georgia"

The director and his lead actress and co-writer break down their new film, which has just screened in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival  

07/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Erika Etangsalé  • Director of In the Billowing Night

Interview: Erika Etangsalé • Director of In the Billowing Night

"This film is a process of shedding light and gaining awareness of generational transmission"

CANNES 2022: The French filmmaker has won the 2022 Doc Alliance Prize for Best Short for her “story of silence, dark dreams, mysterious pain and muted violence”, according to the award's jury  

03/06/2022 | Cannes 2022

Payal Kapadia  • Director of A Night of Knowing Nothing

Interview: Payal Kapadia • Director of A Night of Knowing Nothing

"Political change can not come without understanding the social reality"

CANNES 2022: The Indian filmmaker has received the 2022 Doc Alliance Prize for Best Feature for her “emotionally and artistically packed documentary full of love letters”, according to the jury  

03/06/2022 | Cannes 2022

Vytautas Katkus  • Director of The Visitor

Interview: Vytautas Katkus • Director of The Visitor

"The Next Step Workshop helped me from a very early development stage to understand in which direction I should go with my movie"

CANNES 2022: The Lithuanian filmmaker discusses his feature film project, for which he received the Next Step Award from the Critics' Week, as well as his short film Cherries  

03/06/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Critics' Week

Ali Cherri  • Director of The Dam

Interview: Ali Cherri • Director of The Dam

"The first thing that every system does is to occupy our imaginary"

CANNES 2022: The Lebanese-born, Paris-based filmmaker and artist discusses his film, which depicts how man's action and opression causes nature to respond  

03/06/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Directors' Fortnight

Agnieszka Smoczynska  • Director of The Silent Twins

Interview: Agnieszka Smoczynska • Director of The Silent Twins

"The most fascinating element in the book was the clash between the colorful imagination of the twins and the harsh reality"

CANNES 2022: After two successful films, the Polish filmmaker chose to adapt a book by British journalist Marjorie Wallace for her first English-language feature  

01/06/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard

Mykko Myllylahti  • Director of The Woodcutter Story

Interview: Mykko Myllylahti • Director of The Woodcutter Story

"My character is the incarnation of optimism and hope despite having lost everything"

CANNES 2022: The Finnish filmmaker discusses the details of his story of snow, violence and happiness, which received the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution  

01/06/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Critics' Week

Lola Quivoron and Julie Ledru  • Director and actress of Rodéo

Interview: Lola Quivoron and Julie Ledru • Director and actress of Rodéo

"I love to observe a closed, codified masculine community, and to find out how to break that order"

CANNES 2022: The French director decyphers with the help of her main actress her female-driven feature debut, which puts masculinity on a target and received the “Coup de Cœur” Jury Prize  

31/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard

Pietro Marcello • Director of Scarlet

Interview: Pietro Marcello • Director of Scarlet

"For me cinema is a family"

CANNES 2022: The Italian director discusses the cast and the challenges of making his first French-language film, as well as the topics it tackles, such as gender  

25/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Directors' Fortnight

Hubertus Siegert • Producer of A German Party

Interview: Hubertus Siegert • Producer of A German Party

"We wanted to show the rise of the far-right party in Germany as well its structure from bottom to top"

BERLINALE 2022: The documentary directed by Simon Brückner portrays the controversial German right-wing party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland)  

25/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Berlinale Special

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