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Ana Stanic


273 articles available in total starting from 29/02/2020. Last article published on 27/05/2025.

Hristos Passalis, Syllas Tzoumerkas • Directors of The City and the City

Interview: Hristos Passalis, Syllas Tzoumerkas • Directors of The City and the City

"The terrible extermination of the Jewish community in Thessaloniki is still a taboo in Greek society"

BERLINALE 2022: The Greek filmmaking duo discuss their film about the untold story of the life and perils of the Jewish community of the city, nicknamed “the mother of Israel”, in six chapters  

15/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Encounters

Annika Pinske • Director of Talking about the Weather

Interview: Annika Pinske • Director of Talking about the Weather

"I wanted a contemporary and complex female character allowed to be imperfect and contradictory"

BERLINALE 2022: The German filmmaker discusses her story of a woman caught in contradictions on her quest for independence  

15/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Panorama

Adam Donen • Director of Alice Through The Looking

Interview: Adam Donen • Director of Alice Through The Looking

"I like the wildness of the 60s and the 70s and I’m very keen to capture it in my work"

The director of the world’s first fully holographic theatre play presented his first feature film, a very free adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic, and talked to us about it  

01/12/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | First Feature Competition

Dovile Sarutyte • Director of Feature Film About Life

Interview: Dovile Sarutyte • Director of Feature Film About Life

"Right after the death of family member you suddenly turn in a event manager, a funeral organiser - and this is grotesque situation"

There is no time to mourn in the first feature by the Lithuanian filmmaker, who tells us more about it and about turning a personal experience into a script  

30/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | First Feature Competition

Santi Amodeo • Director of The Gentiles

Interview: Santi Amodeo • Director of The Gentiles

"People no longer say “I’m sad;” they save a song on TikTok"

The Spanish filmmaker talks about his latest work, a film revolving around the teenage years and the use of social media  

30/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Andreas Kleinert • Director of Dear Thomas

Interview: Andreas Kleinert • Director of Dear Thomas

"In East Germany we also had sexy youth in cool clothes, having parties, dancing and living colourful lives"

The German filmmaker talks to us about his declaration of love to writer, poet and rebel Thomas Brasch, which has won the Grand Prix in the Competition of the Black Nights Film Festival  

29/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Kirill Sokolov • Director of No Looking Back

Interview: Kirill Sokolov • Director of No Looking Back

"My goal is to make people feel something by offering them an emotional rollercoaster"

The Russian filmmaker discusses his film, a wildly funny (black) comedy about a women released from prison that boasts a strong social essence  

26/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Kristijonas Vildziunas • Director of Songs for a Fox

Interview: Kristijonas Vildziunas • Director of Songs for a Fox

"As a civilisation, we’re not dreaming anymore, literally and metaphorically"

The Lithuanian filmmaker talks about his new film, which merges magical fantasy, heart-rending drama and rocky musical with post-soviet realities  

25/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Liliana Torres • Director of What Went Wrong?

Interview: Liliana Torres • Director of What Went Wrong?

"Women are not comfortable any more with having smaller wages than men, and that creates frictions in couples"

The Spanish filmmaker delves into her own past life and love interests to create an auto-fiction film, and talks to us about the process she embarked on and its result  

24/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

György Pálfi • Director of Perpetuity

Interview: György Pálfi • Director of Perpetuity

"This is a love story set in a near post-war future in Europe"

The Hungarian director discusses his latest film, which dialogues, in stylistic terms, with the body horror and the perplexing meanings of his breakthrough film Taxidermia  

22/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

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