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Interview with Teodora Ana Mihai on "Hessel 85"

Interview with Teodora Ana Mihai on "Hessel 85"

Moviebreak Interviews und Festivals vor 8 Monaten

"Small decision can make a difference"

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Few tragedies have left as deep a scar on European football as the
events at Brussels’ Heysel Stadium on 29 May 1985. In Heysel 85,
filmmaker Teodora Ana Mihai revisits that night, reframing the
catastrophe of the 1985 European Cup Final between Liverpool F.C.
and Juventus F.C. through an intimate, human lens, that focus on
the dynamics that lead to questionable moral decisions and on the
ordinary people caught in its wake. At the 76th Berlinale where her
third feature premiered in the Special section, the
Belgian-Romanian director spoke about the responsibility of
dramatizing real events, confronting painful archives, and the
challenge of balancing personal stories with broader historical
context.