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Pavel G Vesnakov • Director of Windless

“Hesitation is a burden, but it marks creative paths”

Pavel G Vesnakov • Director of Windless

The Bulgarian director decodes his second feature, which follows a young man who’s detached from his past and his homeland as he deals with the sale of a...

03/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Paula Ďurinová • Director of Lapilli

“In the total darkness of a cave, where there is no way to escape to another reality, any question can be asked”

Paula Ďurinová • Director of Lapilli

The director discusses her exploration of grief and memory, the blending of autofiction and documentary essay, and the interdisciplinary influences on her...

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Martin Pavol Repka • Director of March to May

“What I like about slow cinema is that it gives a certain value to time in film and its passing”

Martin Pavol Repka • Director of March to May

Cineuropa chats to the debuting director about his film’s form, the influences behind his style and his take on slow cinema

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Peter Hoogendoorn • Director of Three Days of Fish

“My work is often described as autobiographical, but I find that definition limiting”

Peter Hoogendoorn • Director of Three Days of Fish

The Dutch director breaks down his second feature, revealing the biographical connection to its plot

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Adam Martinec • Director of Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

“Humour opens up the audience's heart, making it easier to smuggle in the heavier moments”

Adam Martinec • Director of Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

The director discusses his use of the pig-slaughter tradition to explore generational and gender tensions, plus his influences from the Czechoslovak New Wave

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Natja Brunckhorst • Director of Two to One

“I wanted to make a kind of ‘arthouse feel-good movie’ with a happy ending”

Natja Brunckhorst • Director of Two to One

The German actress-turned-director unpicks her approach to depicting the setting of the GDR and talks about the cast of her comedy film

01/07/2024 | Filmfest München 2024

Matthias Krepp • Director of Strangers in the Night

“I found it interesting to make a film whose protagonists were unaware of the turning point the next year would bring”

Matthias Krepp • Director of Strangers in the Night

As his short film about six characters looking for meaning and comfort awaits its screening at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames, the Austrian...

01/07/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Marthe Peters • Director of Baldilocks

“Looking through other people’s eyes, I suddenly feel really proud that I can point to her and tell people that it’s me”

Marthe Peters • Director of Baldilocks

The Dutch director takes her raw and personal documentary, which delves into her past, to Karlovy Vary to screen as part of EFP’s Future Frames

01/07/2024 | Future Frames 2024

William Sehested Høeg • Director of The Complaint

“I’ve made a film about human facades, and how far we will go to fit in and feel recognised”

William Sehested Høeg • Director of The Complaint

We get the low-down on this dark, satirical drama that lays bare the falsity of corporate culture and self-help, as it screens at Karlovy Vary as part of...

01/07/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Katarína Gramatová • Director of A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places

“I am not a fan of documentary films that just capture the moment, where there is no vision or ideas from a filmmaker”

Katarína Gramatová • Director of A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places

The Slovakian director talks about gaining the trust of the protagonist of her short documentary, which will screen as part of EFP’s Future Frames at...

01/07/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Bogdan Alecsandru • Director of If I Float

“I am interested in the limits and specificities of the short film as an independent art form”

Bogdan Alecsandru • Director of If I Float

As his work is about to screen as part of EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary, Cineuropa talks to the Romanian director about queer cinema and the...

28/06/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Lucía G Romero • Director of Cura Sana

“For me, love is the essence of the film”

Lucía G Romero • Director of Cura Sana

We talk to the Spanish director about her Berlinale Crystal Bear-winning short film as it awaits more plaudits when it screens at EFP’s Future Frames in...

28/06/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Sarah Chazelle, Étienne Ollagnier • Distributors, Jour2Fête

“The films we choose are the films we love”

Sarah Chazelle, Étienne Ollagnier • Distributors, Jour2Fête

The two French distributors unpack their company’s editorial policy and market strategies

28/06/2024 | Distributor of the Month

Anna Maria Jóakimsdóttir-Hutri • Director of Who Stands Up for Alvar?

“How we treat the elderly is a measure of the health of a society”

Anna Maria Jóakimsdóttir-Hutri • Director of Who Stands Up for Alvar?

As her film screens at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames, we talked to the Icelandic director about the importance of caring for the older generation

28/06/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Karel Och • Artistic director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

“This willingness to engage with and sometimes polemicise against established canons lends Proxima vibrancy”

Karel Och • Artistic director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

We sat down with the Czech festival's artistic director to discuss the Proxima competition, the gathering's focus on debut films, the vibrant state of Czech...

27/06/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024

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