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Depression in Drama, OCD in Comedy, Schizophrenia in Horror. On the Stigmatization of Mental Illnesses in Film and Television
[TW: ableism, sanism, racism, symptoms of various mental illnesses, mention of psychiatric clinics, electroshock therapy, violence, and suicide] This article…
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Dear Diary… from Cannes
Director Alica Bednáriková, whose film Liquid Bread (2021) was featured in the La Cinef Selection of student films at the…
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Balcony is a (fantastic) feeling
Even if it might seem that the balcony culture is also relatively developed in other post-socialist countries, such as Slovakia, after watching Blazhan's documentary, I got the impression that our Ukrainian neighbors have refined this phenomenon on a much higher level.
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Retracing history with Jan Matuszynski
There are so many characters in the film because we wanted to make a film about the system. All the antagonists are a part of the structure that's fully orchestrated from the lowest to the highest position.
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IT CHOOSES YOU
After winning a Sundance Festival workshop, Miranda July made her film debut in 2005 with her first feature film, Me and You and Everyone We Know. The film won The Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, a special jury award at Sundance and more.
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Film festivals as global brands
At the end of last year, the KVIFF Group, which covers all activities around the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival,…
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The tunnels we dig will be visionary.
The balance of our proposal, working with artists in collaboration is naturally and foremostly honesty, dialogue, and a desire to learn from whom we are working with: It’s important to state clearly what we wish to do and where we imagine or wish for the result to be shown.
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Child sake a.k.a. After the dream
What follows when the dream’s over? The circus art belongs to the past, so does the boyhood of a clown…
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Child sake a.k.a. Hadí nevadí
Imagine seeing your mother hanging 70 feets over a hard floor and praying for giving her one more hug after…
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Alain Gomis and universal stories set in specific places
The work of the French-born filmmaker is closely linked to Africa. His view is not that of a colonizer but is based on respect for local culture; he shows interest in problems and dilemmas of people which are universal and quite specific at the same time.
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One Woman is Not Enough
At the beginning One of the first things I was asked by the admission committee at the film directing entrance…
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Identity is skin-deep
The Skin I Live In is a 2011 film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar Caballero. The plot of the film…
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Let’s talk about flab baby
On body positivity without toxic positivism Fat Front (r. Louise Unmack Kjeldsen, Louise Detlefsen, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, 2019, 90 min)…
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If we want to have future, we have to act
Alan Holly is an Irish filmmaker and animator that like to cover the topic of finiteness and ignorance of humanity.…
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On capturing the mental illness with Damian Nenadić
Days of Madness is very honest and open but also rough documentary film about mental illness. Shot on small cameras…
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On the ghosts we keep close and Brazilian cinema with Beatriz Seigner
Beatriz Seigner is an award winning Brazilian writer, director and producer best known for her recent film Los Silencios which…
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On Madness and Inner Beauty of Freedom
Joker (dir. Todd Phillips, USA, 2019, 122 min) One year ago, my knowledge on Joker only consisted of a few…
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Three-second long interview with Zanussi
„Zanussi is one of those authors who have known how to enrich a dialogue with a religious, metaphysical, or scientific…
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DRAG: A peek under the curtain into the unknown world
Drag has recently become a phenomenon that has started to appear in every area of pop culture. What is a…
