Meet the Filmmakers
Interviews with filmmakers presenting their films at KVIFF.
2024 – 58th KVIFF
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13 min58th Closing ceremony: And the winners are…
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2 minIvan Trojan: I got to show both sides of my work at KVIFF
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1 minClive Owen: I had been hearing about KVIFF for a long time
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7 minAbdellah Taïa: I refused to accept the rejection of society
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7 minNelicia Low: Every relationship is based on a kind of projection
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7 minGeoffrey Rush: You can’t act genius
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3 minDaniel Brühl: European filmmakers have to fight harder
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6 minMarie-Magdalena Kochová: The film raises questions of responsibility to oneself and others
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9 minRich Peppiatt: I had no idea if Kneecap could act
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6 minNoaz Deshe: Shape-shifting statelessness is the genre of Xoftex
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6 minFrancine Maisler: Surprise faces make a film feel fresh to viewers
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7 minLilja Ingolfsdottir: If you don’t deal with childhood traumas your relationships will do it for you
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5 minGábor Reisz: Responses to film reflect bipolar nature of Hungary
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7 minNicole Holofcener: I’ve learnt to stop trying to look smart
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6 minMichel Franco: Concept of memory definitely wasn’t spark for film
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1 minAdam Martinec: I was interested in how one can become lonely among family
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5 minSteven Soderbergh: Our freedom to shoot in Prague was something I’ve never experienced since
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6 minJiří Mádl: It was all about confusing the viewer.
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5 minOmer Tobi: It was hard to get actors willing to follow script in conservative Israel
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6 minAaron Schimberg: Disorient the audience? I’m disoriented myself
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3 minViggo Mortensen: You can do a lot with the western
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2023 – 57th KVIFF
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12 minAnd the winners are…
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1 minRobin Wright: I’ve been very lucky in my career
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1 minPatricia Clarkson: Let’s see if I can come to KVIFF a third time
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6 minBabak Jalali: We wanted to present an Afghan woman with her own agency
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4 minJi-Young Yoo: Abortion is a hotly debated issue in Korea
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4 minKarim Lakzadeh: Independent cinema is like a river – it finds its way
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6 minRolf de Heer: Survival of Kindness brings cruelty to the surface
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6 minAlexandre O. Philippe: William Shatner is loved but profoundly lonely
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5 minTinatin Kajrishvili: A local "live saint" helped inspire my film
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