Ana Stanic
273 articles available in total starting from 29/02/2020. Last article published on 27/05/2025.
Interview: Anna Rubi • Director of Your Life Without Me
"This film is about the strength of community and the place of fragility in our society"
The Hungarian director delves into her documentary, in which a group of elderly mothers join forces and sue the state to secure a dignified future for their disabled children
Interview: Anja Kreis • Director of The Alienated
"The power of evil is not only in the government but also in the mentality of people"
The Russian-born filmmaker discusses her second feature and the uncomfortable questions it raises, about human conscience and morality, as well as the concepts of God and evil
Interview: Vadim Jendreyko • Director of The Song of Others – A Search for Europe
"This was a very personal research into other options for living together as a society"
The German filmmaker unpicks his topical essay, in which he travels through the European identity, wondering if the continent is condemned to be stuck in a circle of violence, or if there is hope
Interview: Jiří Mádl • Director of Waves
"If you are a parent, the important issue may not be your kids' survival, but living meaningfully"
The Czech director gives us an insight on his latest film, which focuses on a group of journalists who risk everything to provide independent news in the late 1960s Czechoslovakia
Interview: Mark Cousins • Director of A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
"Looking into the world can take you out of yourself and into something bigger"
The filmmaker talks about his new work, an exploration of British modernist painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's perspective after her experience atop the Grindelwald glacier
