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interviews

Interviews with filmmakers and other politically interesting people.

A woman’s struggle with reality
WOMEN OF EUROPE: Sweden's former Foreign and Vice Prime Minister Margot Wallström believes we currently live in a world of autocrats, where Nordic welfare…
July 22, 2020
Truls Lie
A future Palestinian state can only be sustainable if it has a good relationship with Israel
The Palestine Annex: Espen Barth Eide, former Foreign Minister, Jerusalem (2013)
July 20, 2020
Truls Lie
«A new relationship to language and listening in cinema»: Lynne Sachs on her Sheffield Doc/Fest Retrospective
INTERVIEW: Documentary filmmaker Lynne Sachs speaks on her career as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest's «Ghosts & Apparitions» online focus.
June 17, 2020
Lauren Wissot
Taking care of business: Jonathan Perel on Corporate Accountability
INTERVIEW: Modern Times Review talks with Argentina's Jonathan Perel on his Berlinale-premiered new film, Corporate Accountability
May 1, 2020
Neil Young
To ask questions that are intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging
INTERVIEW«My background was from journalism, I had to learn film language», says Benjamin Ree on his The Painter and the Thief.
March 12, 2020
Lauren Wissot
A cinema of prototypes
INTERVIEW: Art director Catherine Bizern at Cinema du Reel talks with MTR.
March 10, 2020
Truls Lie
Recreate it!
INTERVIEW: Artistic director at The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Orestis Andreadakis.
March 5, 2020
Truls Lie
«I see the genre’s remarkable momentum going on for some time»
FESTIVAL de CANNES: The head of Cannes Docs, Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes, Pierre-Alexis Chevit, speaks on the documentary focused initiative at…
March 1, 2020
Steve Rickinson
«artificial elitism doesn’t make sense»
ONE WORLD: Festival Director Ondřej Kamenický offers insight into Prague's Human Rights Documentary Film Festival's 2020 edition.
February 21, 2020
Steve Rickinson