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Ana Stanic


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

Viestur Kairish  • Director of The Sign Painter

Interview: Viestur Kairish • Director of The Sign Painter

"How can you survive as a human and not sell your soul"

We met up with Latvian director Viestur Kairish to discuss his latest film The Sign Painter, which screened in Competition at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival  

01/12/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition

Oliver Rihs  • Director of Caged Birds

Interview: Oliver Rihs • Director of Caged Birds

"We tell the story of these two opposite characters and their dream of freedom"

Swiss filmmaker Oliver Rihs talks to us about his latest feature film, Caged Birds, which was screened in Competition at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival  

01/12/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition

Leonardo Antonio  • Director of Submission

Interview: Leonardo Antonio • Director of Submission

"90% of the psychiatry hospital wing would be empty if we could address the problem of rape and prostitution in marriage"

Portugal's Leonardo Antonio discusses his Black Nights-screened film Submission, about a woman who files a court case against her own husband for rape  

26/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition

Alberto La Monica • Director, Lecce European Film Festival

Interview: Alberto La Monica • Director, Lecce European Film Festival

"Production companies from all over the world can submit their project in Apulia if they want to do something in the region"

We had a chat with Alberto La Monica, director of the Lecce European Film Festival, about its recent edition and what the Italian region in which it takes place has to offer to the industry  

24/11/2020 | Lecce 2020

Jonas Kærup Hjort • Director of The Penultimate

Interview: Jonas Kærup Hjort • Director of The Penultimate

"I wanted the main character to guide us trough existential questions of life"

We chatted with Danish filmmaker Jonas Kærup Hjort, who is screening his convoluted and surreal debut feature The Penultimate at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival  

23/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | First Feature Competition

Šemsudin Radončić • Director of Conspiracy

Interview: Šemsudin Radončić • Director of Conspiracy

"The majority of Montenegrin citizens still believes that all this is fabricated"

Journalist and filmmaker Šemsudin Radončić talked to us about his Sarajevo-premiered documentary Conspiracy, which investigates the attempted coup d’état in Montenegro in 2016  

31/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Documentary Competition

Asia Dér, Sári Haragonics • Directors of Her Mothers

Interview: Asia Dér, Sári Haragonics • Directors of Her Mothers

"A rainbow family adopts a child in Hungary"

We talked to directing duo Asia Dér and Sári Haragonics, who took their eye-opening documentary Her Mothers to the Sarajevo Film Festival  

25/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Documentary Competition

Michalis Konstantatos • Director of All The Pretty Little Horses

Interview: Michalis Konstantatos • Director of All The Pretty Little Horses

"The biggest crimes happen in the light of the day"

We talked to Greek filmmaker Michalis Konstantatos, who screened his feature All The Pretty Little Horses in Competition for the Heart of Sarajevo  

24/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Competition

Ru Hasanov • Director of The Island Within

Interview: Ru Hasanov • Director of The Island Within

"Making this film was a long and intimate process, it reflects my relations to my family and my country"

We have interviewed Azerbaijani director Ru Hasanov, who won the award for Best Director at Sarajevo's Feature Competition for his strangely specific The Island Within  

21/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Competition

Danijela Stajnfeld • Director of Hold Me Right

Interview: Danijela Stajnfeld • Director of Hold Me Right

"Making this film was a healing process in the aftermath of a sexual assault"

Serbia's Danijela Stajnfeld talked to us about her deeply personal Hold Me Right, screening as part of the Documentary Competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival  

21/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Documentary Competition

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