Interviews

Algerian/Swiss filmmaker Mohammed Soudani talks to Business Doc Europe about his upcoming doc project that argues that the future of Africa belongs to women.

Acclaimed auteur Lucrecia Martel talks to Business Doc Europe about Pardo 2020-winning Chocobar, her Covid-interrupted doc project that takes its cue from the murder in 2009 of Argentinian land rights activist Javier Chocobar.

French director Justine de Gasquet, currently studying cinema at HEAD Geneva, discusses her archive-based short film about African-American culture, as told through the testimony of Prisoner no. 74A3701.

Swiss producer/director team of Raphaël Dubach and Mateo Ybarra (duties shared) talk to Business Doc Europe about witnessing (and chronicling) the full mobilisation of the Swiss Army.

If you’re not familiar with the work of Israeli filmmaker Roee Rosen then expect the unexpected in this piece of astute and absurdist stand-up comedy.

Director Isabell Heimerdinger talks to Business Doc Europe about her painterly and contemplative short documentary, shot on a remote island off the coast of West Africa.

French producer Thomas Lambert discusses his fantastical Zaho Zay, set in Madagascar and fusing stunning indigenous documentary footage with magical realism within its hybrid structure.

In Domovine, Serb director Jelena Maksimovic goes on an odyssey to discover both her familial and philosophical homelands.

Danish producer and media/training expert Ove Rishøj Jensen talks to Business Doc Europe about the upcoming Dox in Vitro talent development seminar, and about his busy, if somewhat disrupted, year to date.

Jean-Pierre Rehm talks to Business Doc Europe of his relief at being able to run a ‘non-virtual’ FID Marseille, which again sets out to blur the lines between documentary, fiction and experimental within its programme.