directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili/ A usual family morning begins to unravel when hidden tensions emerge. “I grew up in a really tiny place on the border of Azerbaijan with my grandparents during the civil war and collapse of the Soviet Union. We didn’t have electricity, so I actually never really got to watch films when […]
Archives for September 2014
Ja Vi Elsker (Yes We Love)
directed by Hallvar Witzø/ Four generations, each with a crisis, set in four different parts of Norway on the Norwegian Independence Day. “The reason I made this movie was to strip off and be totally naked, to do something artistically challenging that I had never done before, something that I couldn’t dodge in the editing […]
Les Corps Étrangers (Foreign Bodies)
directed by Laura Wandel/ During his rehabilitation, a war photographer is apprehensive of the look of other people on him and the proximity of his body. The physiotherapist who is helping him will try to restore his ability to watch the world around him differently. “When I get an idea for writing a script, I’m […]