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Ana Stanic


275 articles available in total starting from 29/02/2020. Last article published on 18/06/2025.

Paolo Marinou-Blanco • Director of Dreaming of Lions

Interview: Paolo Marinou-Blanco • Director of Dreaming of Lions

"How do we answer the question of what makes life worth living?"

The Portuguese director shares some insights into his film, a surreal and heartwarming comedy about euthanasia  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics' Picks

Dechen Roder • Director of I, the Song

Interview: Dechen Roder • Director of I, the Song

"What can we do in this mean world, with all these issues of copying, recording private things, secret songs?"

One of the first female directors from Bhutan discusses her second feature, a tale of Buddhist karma, doppelgangers and melancholic Dzongkha songs  

25/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

Jaak Kilmi • Director of The Shadow

Interview: Jaak Kilmi • Director of The Shadow

"I wanted an entertaining way to approach a divine Estonian poet"

The Estonian director delves into his latest film, a portray of Juhan Liiv, a struggling poet and unlikely detective who lived in his country during the Tsar's crumbling empire  

25/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Boris Guts • Director of Deaf Lovers

Interview: Boris Guts • Director of Deaf Lovers

"My characters are in limbo, walking from heaven to hell"

The Russian-born filmmaker discusses his a tale of a Ukrainian woman and a Russian man, both deaf, who meet in Istanbul while there’s a war going on back home  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Viktor Tauš • Director of Girl America

Interview: Viktor Tauš • Director of Girl America

"Hope and faith have a transformative power"

The Czech filmmaker delves into his newest film, about a little girl in a strict socialist orphanage who tries to overcome fears, insecurity and loneliness  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Juris Kursietis • Director of The Exalted

Interview: Juris Kursietis • Director of The Exalted

"I wanted the story to be a clash between art and money"

The filmmaker discusses his follow-up to his Cannes Directors' Fortnight entry Oleg, about a German organist who discovers her Latvian husband's involvement in a corruption scandal  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

Interview: Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

"I tried to show how brutal a man's world can be without women in a rural area of Turkey"

The Turkish filmmaker discusses his new feature, a daring boy's journey against the cruel entanglements of deception and disabilities of the adult world  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Brigitte Weich and Judith Benedikt • Director and director of photography of ...ned, tassot, yossot...

Interview: Brigitte Weich and Judith Benedikt • Director and director of photography of ...ned, tassot, yossot...

"North Korea made such an impression on me that it eventually made me a filmmaker"

The Austrian filmmakers talk to us about their documentary about four former players from North Korea’s women’s football national team that won the Asian Cup two consecutive times  

28/08/2024 | Sarajevo 2024 | Documentary Competition

Isabela Tent • Director of Alice On & Off

Interview: Isabela Tent • Director of Alice On & Off

"It isn't easy to watch this character because all of us have our own emotional baggage – and it bothers us"

The Romanian filmmaker discusses her first documentary feature, in which she follows an unloved girl trapped in the life of a young mother over ten years  

28/08/2024 | Sarajevo 2024 | Documentary Competition

The winners of the CineLink Industry Days

Interview: The winners of the CineLink Industry Days

Interview

We have a chat with the CineLink Co-Production Market's Eurimages Co-production Development Awards winners, as well as the winners of the CineLink Drama and the Docu Rough Cut Boutique sections  

27/08/2024 | Sarajevo 2024 | CineLink Industry Days

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