Interviews

In her latest movie, Black Milk, Mongolian-German filmmaker Uisenma Borchu tells the story of two sisters who meet after decades of separation in Mongolia. The culture clashes cause tension, even though the bond between the sisters is strong.

Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain wants to raise awareness to social realism. Her movie Made in Bangladesh tells how Shimu’s (Rikita Nandini Shimu) battles against corporation, capitalism, and patriarchy.

When comic book writer Mark Millar sold his Millarworld publishing company to Netflix in 2017, the streamer was given access to an expansive library of potential new franchises. Included in the list of comic book properties was the much-loved superhero saga Jupiter’s Legacy, which first launched in 2013 and has now been turned into an original live-action television series with a cast that includes Leslie Bibb, Josh Duhamel, Ben Daniels and Matt Lanter.

With The County, director Grímur Hákonarson delves into an agricultural co-operative in rural Iceland and the mafia-like tactics it uses to keep farmers in their grip. When dairy farmer Inga’s husband has a car accident, she discovers that her husband has worked as an informer for the co-op making sure that they keep the monopoly in the county.

Director, actor, and author Yangzom Brauen, the daughter of Swiss anthropologist Martin Brauen and Tibetan artist Sonam Dolma Brauen, was born to be a socially conscious activist. She tells HFPA journalist Marlene von Arx that those themes are also important on the two TV shows, The Republic of Sarah and Rebel, that Brauen has been directing lately.

Justin McConnell’s Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business is a film about the harsh realities of indie filmmaking as we follow McConnell’s trials and tribulations while he endeavors to get his project greenlit through a five-year process. Navigating the current film business is more difficult now than ever before: rapidly changing technology and an overcrowded marketplace have led to an industry in which anyone can make a film, but few can make a living.

While studying film at Columbia University, Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili contemplated what it meant to belong somewhere.   When she returned to her home country she visited the small mountain village where her father used to live.

On March 9, 1997, Christopher George Latore Wallace, better known by his stage name the Notorious B. I.

Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal is about a heavy metal drummer who loses his sense of hearing. As the audience follows the character Ruben, played by Riz Ahmed, on his journey from becoming deaf to finding himself as a deaf man, the task of the editor Mikkel E.

Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó needs to be touched by the stories he directs. His latest film, Pieces of a Woman, is based on his and his wife’s Kata Wéber personal story.