Interviews

The Bosnian capital’s first Gay Pride celebration in 2019 provides the dramatic backdrop for Ado Hasanović’s short documentary, selected for Sarajevo FF.

Three further projects were pitched at Sarajevo, on the nature of memory, the legacy of freethinking in the time of Czech Normalisation, and an intimate confession from a woman to her brother.

It may be beautiful but Český Krumlov, the second most visited city in the Czech Republic, is unrecognisable as an urban community. The reason? Over-tourism. Meanwhile, in Elevation, an ageing Ukrainian ski-coach confronts his demons in search of renewed success.

2017 Locarno Golden Leopard winner Wang Bing talks to BDE about his new project, dealing with African migration to Guangzhou (China), whose realisation is temporarily interrupted by the global pandemic.

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.