Moviebreak Interviews und Festivals Archiv
142 Episoden
15 Minuten
After giving relatable instructions on mundane topics in his successful series How to with John Wilson, the American documentary filmmaker and producer struck festival gold with his first feature-length documentary. The History of Concrete takes the omnipresent material as a thematic prism to explore very different kinds of structures, industrial, sociological, and emotional. After premiering at Sundance and packing movie theaters at Copenhagen's CPH:DOX, the tragicomical doc is now at Visions du Réel. Just after the Q&A of his sold-out screening, John Wilson found time for an interview with Lidanoir, talking the challenges of independent filmmaking, his desillusioned feelings about the titular material, and making the most unfunny things comical.
19 Minuten
In the increasingly competitive landscape of international film festivals, few artistic directors have shaped theirs as decisively as Emilie Bujès. Her nine year at Visions du Réel saw the Swiss festival grow into one of the ost important international platforms for non-fiction film, attracting an impressive range of renowned filmmakers focused on realit stories as well as a exciting new talents. Before seeking out a new challenge at the Geneva International Film Festival, her final edition of Visions du Réel asserts her bold curatorial vision with a program that challenges established perceptions of non-fiction cinema. In an interview on site with Lidanoir, Bujés reflects on the balance between artistic and social-political aspects of selected titles, why she avoids th term "documentary", the financial challenges international film festival face, and the complicated presence of AI.
17 Minuten
In an increasingly authocratic political climate in the US, where trans kids are systemically targeted by and barred from essential medical care, Amy K. Jenkins together with her son Adam presents a tender portrait of family love, growing-up, and being truly oneself. Just about a week after Adam's Apple debuted at SXSW, the US-American director as well as co-creator and writer Adam are at Copenhagen's CPH:DOX festival for the European premiere. In the festival hub at Kunsthal, surrounded by the beautiful artworks of the museum's current exhibition, they both Jenkins and Adam took the time for an interview with Lidanoir about unconditional love, working together on the film, and normalcy as a political statement.
14 Minuten
After 12 intense days of film festival and with theatrical screenings of festival films continuing for several days after the official end of the event, CPH:DOX Artistic Director Niklas Engstrøm has any reason to be exhausted. But that is not at all like the founding member who has been with the growing platform for international non-fiction cinema for more than 20 years. In this time, CPH:DOX has grown to one of the world's most respected and influential showcases of contemporary documentary films. Just after the 2rd edition's award ceremony, Niklas Engstrøm delayed the after show celebrations for an interview with Lidanoir. They discuss the unprecedented challenges to truth due to AI, the essential role of fact-based cinema in a populist age, and the ever-expanding future of the festival.
16 Minuten
After debuting at Sundance where it won the prestigious World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazićs powerful portrait of resistance, community, and the beleaguered balance between progress and preservation celebrates its European premiere in the Highlights section of CPH:DOX. To Hold a Mountain shows a mother’s fight for the lands of her remote mountain community which are about to be turned into military training grounds. Between screenings of their work, the Serbian director and her Montenegrin colleague took the time for an interview with Lidanoir, discussing the challenging shoot over seven years, female heroes, and the universal meaning of local struggle.
21 Minuten
A timely, profoundly humane portrait of medicine at the frontlines and the journalistic responsibility to force the public to acknowledge the realities of war, Poh Si Teng’s intense documentary arrives at Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX, just weeks after its celebrated premiere at Sundance. American Doctor follows Dr. Mark Perlmutter, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, and Dr. Feroze Sidwa, a medical collective with different roots - one Jewish, one Palestinian, one Zoroastrian - whose works stretches far beyond hospital walls. Together, they fight to save live in Gaza and campaign for an end of the Genocide against the Palestinians in spaces where care, conflict, and conscience collide. On site in Copenhagen, both the Malaysian-American director and journalist and Dr. Ahmad spoke in an interview with Lidanoir about the making of the documentary, the ethical weight of portraying human suffering, and the personal stakes behind the story.
11 Minuten
With his integral interest in the LGBTQ+ community and its struggles Sébastien Lifshitz has become an equally essential and empathetic chronist of a history often ignored by conventional accounts. A Very Good Boy shines both as an intimate portrait of one of its overlooked personalities and the era reflected in his life. The tender documentary allows former gay porn icon Claude Loir to tell his life story, shaped by a fundamental need for freedom and a desire to live and love authentically. For the premiere at CPH:DOX, the French filmmaker speaks with Lidanoir about meeting his charismatic main character, the 70s as an era of new creative freedom, and the importance of preserving LGBTQ+ history.
10 Minuten
Ihrem zwischenmenschlichen Fokus und wachen Blick bleibt Eva Trobisch in ihrem Ensemble-Stück ebenso treu wie dem Gespür für emotionale Nuancen. Bereits ihr erster Spielfilm Alles ist gut wurde in Locarno als bester Debütfilm ausgezeichnet. Nachdem sie vor zwei Jahren Ivo in der kurzlebigen Berlinale Sektion Encounters präsentiere, kehrt die Regisseurin nun zurück zum Festival - diesmal in den Wettbewerb. Dort folgt Etwas ganz besonderes den Mitgliedern einer provinziellen Familie auf der Suche nach ihren individuellen Zielen und sich selbst. Im Gespräch mit Lidanoir erzählt Eva Trobisch von der Initialzündung der Story, deutsch-deutschen Kino-Geschichte und ihrer Hatung zu der diffizilen Frage danach, was die eigene Persönlichkeit ausmacht.
12 Minuten
Over the past decade, Emin Alper has established himself as one of contemporary Turkish cinema’s most incisive observers of politics, power, and the dangerous dynamics of populism. With Salvation, he returns to the Berlinale with an atmospheric competition entry examining a society on edge, crafting a story that is equally intimate and allegorical. A remote community in the Anatolian mountains becomes the enigmatic setting of an escalating conflict fueled by pathological paranoia and religious delusion. In conversation at the 76th Berlinale, the Turkish director reflects on the story’s universal meaning, the perilous charisma of unstable leaders, and the anxieties that drive people to succumb to inhumane cruelties.
11 Minuten
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.
12 Minuten
Few artists have interrogated time, memory, and authorship as rigorously as Douglas Gordon. For more than three decades, the Turner Prize–winning artist has redefined the language of contemporary art through works that fracture and reframe cultural memory. Filmmaker Finlay Pretsell turns his camera toward the artist at a moment of personal and creative transition, crafting an intimate portrait that blurs the boundaries between observer and subject. Shot over several years, the film defies the conventions of biographical documentary.In conversation with Lidanoir at Berlinale, where Douglas Gordon by Douglas Gordon premieres, Gordon and Pretsell reflect on their collaboration, art, and the tension between documentation and performance.
15 Minuten
Almost two decades after his last feature Ballast, Lance Hammer returns to screen in the spotlight of the Berlinale Competition. There the US-American director turns his contemplative gaze at dementia and the devastating toll it takes, both on the elderly character suffering from the illness and her deeply conflicted relatives. Set against the fragile social and familiar worlds of its characters, Queen at Sea turns its realist lens on mental collapse, systemic neglect, and corroding relationships. On site at the Berlinale, speaks about the long development of the story, the extensive research that went into portraying dementia with authenticity rather than sentimentality, and the primal fears his film aims to address.
6 Minuten
With her first cinematic feature, renowned Brazilian theater actor, director, and writer Grace Passô announces herself as a compelling new voice, attuned to the delicate emotional undertones beneath everyday life. Premiering at the 76th Berlinale’s Perspectives section, Our Secret explores the weight of what goes unsaid in a family after a devastating loss and listens for the ghosts that linger in a house shared by generations. In conversation with Lidanoir, Passô talks about the personal and creative origins of the project, the challenges of moving her play from stage to the screen, and the special role of the location for her story.
15 Minuten
Following the neuropsychological dread of Relic and the occult paranoia of Apartment 7A, Natalie Erika James’ latest feature continues her exploration of the emotional fallout of social pressure and painful family histories. Brutal beauty standards and toxic diet culture literally threaten to consume the young protagonist of Saccharine which premiered in Sundance’s Midnight section before running at Berlinale’s Special section. On site in the busy Berlinale Palace, the Japanese-Australian filmmaker talks about the personal origins of the story, the devastating social impact of rigid physical standards, and the elaborate special effects langue shaping the symbolic scares.
11 Minuten
Seine Dokumentarfilme laufen regelmäßig auf internationalen Film Festivals und brachten Tobias Nölle zahlreiche Preise, darunter in Locarno einen Goldenen Leoparden für seinen Kurzfilm René. Nun kehrt der Schweizer Regisseur zurück zur Berlinale, wo sein jüngstes Werk im Panorama Weltpremiere feiert. Tristan Forever balanciert auf der Grenze zwischen Dokumentation, Fiktion, Erinnerung und Traum in seiner Erkundung der jahrzehntelangen Beziehung des Pariser Arztes Loran Bonnardot zur abgelegensten, dauerhaft bewohnten Insel der Welt. Dreißig Jahre lang zieht es Bonnardot immer wieder auf Tristan da Cunha im Südatlantik. Sein Entschluss, dort überzusiedeln, eröffnet Fragen nach Zugehörigkeit, Gemeinschaft, Ideal und Illusion. Im Gespräch mit Lidanoir auf der Berlinale berichtet Nölle von der Faszination von Menschen und Orten außerhalb der assimilierten Gesellschaft, den Dreharbeiten auf Tristan und der Grenze zwischen Realität und Fiktion.
