Interviews

Polish producer Ania Gawlita (Kijora Film) has a busy festival with two major pitches in KFF Industry and two films in official selection.

In Oscar-nominated Zofia Kowalewska’s feature-length doc debut, the filmmaker travels with her 92-year-old grandfather to a remote village in Kazakhstan, where he was exiled during WWII, in search of his first love.

A documentary project about what the filmmakers claim to be the greatest, unfulfilled dream of Polish cinema, the 1970s science fiction epic ‘On the Silver Globe’. Docs to Go! pitch presentation

Levan is a drunk whose every decision is influenced by its potential effect on his hypochondriac mother, so he generally does nothing at all. He also happens to have been one of Georgia’s most creative musicians…

Mira Jargil’s film title carries neither a question nor an exclamation mark, so we are kept guessing until the end as to whether a Syrian family divided by war can be united once more.

Tone Grøttjord-Glenne talks about her documentary All That I Am, a story of pain, strength, resilience and hope, world-premiering in Toronto.

Icelandic filmmaker Yrsa Roca Fannberg’s feature-length documentary shows life on a remote sheep farm, all set within a wider continuum of birth and rebirth.

The road they take may be ‘one less travelled by’, but Czech disabled band The Tap Tap pack as much energy and vitality into their performances (and their lives in general) as any Mick, Jimi or Slash combo.

Greek director Menios Carayannis’ FIPRESCI Award-winning documentary eschews the spoken word to enable us better to listen and to observe.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that culture events equate to free food. And if you are organised enough, you can feast very happily on both.