Interviews

Interviews
Conversations across the film world.

Catherine Coquio on Memory Culture

Catherine Coquio, expert of memory culture, elaborates on her cutting critique of the culture industry.

Polish director Ryszard Bugajski speaks about his long filmmaking career, which took him across the Atlantic and back.

Jashi speaks about making The Dazzling Light, the role of media in Georgia, and funding problems in the country.

We met Laila Pakalniņa during the goEast film festival, where her new film Dawn screened in the competition in 2016.

Mirică speaks about his transition from screenwriter to director, the creative process and problems with mainstream storytelling.

We discussed the Chernobyl disaster with nuclear energy expert Sonja Schmid on the occasion of our special Chernobyl issue.

We discussed the "supra" - the Georgian table - with German anthropologist Florian Mühlfried on the occasion of our special food-themed issue.

Porumboiu speaks about locations, his relationship to Burcharest, and the larger perspective of his work.

Muntean speaks about his work, Romanian cinema and the role of morality in his film and elsewhere.

We met Armenian director Harutyun Khachatryan during the L’Europe autour de l’Europe festival in Paris.