Interviews

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.

Ahead of its world premiere on July 15 in Thessaloniki, co-director Pippa Ehrlich talks about her film that chronicles the transformative year spent by conservationist and filmmaker Craig Foster in the company of an octopus off the southernmost tip of Africa.

Vienna-based Moldovan director Pavel Cuzuioc talks to Business Doc Europe about his second feature doc Please Hold The Line, which world-premiered at Sheffield.

Sharon Lockhart’s project Baumettes seeks to create a different kind of cinema for (and about) an environment where the cinematic experience is not possible – prisons.

The Krakatoa explosion is considered to be the loudest noise in recorded history, and forms the basis of Carlos Casas’ multiplatform and immersive doc/fiction project of the same name.

Gosia Juszczak’s film, world-premiering in Sheffield’s In the World strand, tells a story both of exploitation within, and irregular migration from, the small African country of Gambia.

Anders Hammer’s Do Not Split, which won the Special Jury Prize at AFI Docs, takes on even greater significance in the light of renewed protests in Hong Kong, following the passing of the country’s new security laws.