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INSIDE Vorlíček is good at fairytales (and more) English Section, page 2 The Grand Jury, Critics’ and Audience Awards English Section, page 3 Straight Outta Estonia English Section, page 4 Photo: Jan Handrejch This actor is willing to risk broken bones for work but prefers to dig deep for emotion. THERE TO SERVE THE STORY JEREMY RENNER SEEKS OUT FILMS THAT CHALLENGE HIM AND FORCE HIM TO GROW

Jeremy Renner’s performance in Wind I have no regrets. I made a conscious that movie was so big with so many much. The Marvel universe is pretty fun Would you shoot another film in the River, screening at KVIFF to coincide decision when I was younger to have characters and so many things going on. to watch. Middle East as you did in The Hurt with the American actor receiving the music be a pure expression of art or of You can’t really understand from the Locker? President’s Prize, signifies a return to the feelings. I didn’t want it to be a job. So script what the hell you’re going to be What’s the most critical element for For me the answer is actually no and it kind of slow-burn character that won I chose theater, and movies and televi- doing. You figure out your character and you in choosing to take on a role? has nothing to do with the Middle East. him an Oscar nomination for Kathryn sion. I figured I could to that as a job and your little piece in this puzzle, then the The director is one of the most impor- I can’t shoot that far from my child. That Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker in 2008. also it was something I was drawn to as VFX take over and principle photogra- tant things. You know, Taylor Sheridan is was a different time in my life. So Although Renner has lately been cast in a job because as an actor, with psychol- phy and all the editing and the effects a first-time director but I knew him as I shoot pretty much within the continent, numerous roles in the action franchises ogy and human behavior and things like and creating the bad guy, the aliens, the a writer and I got to know him as a man in America. But I did enjoy my time over Mission Impossible and Avengers, it’s as that, it would help me as a man as well backdrop. It might be a green screen and he wrote Sicario. It’s just sort of there. I got to learn a lot as an actor and clear as ever why his breakthrough came as identifying and expressing feelings. where I’m fighting a guy in a leotard but a like-mindedness. He’s a problem as a man. from his indie film work. Yesterday, he If I was singing for a job all I would on the real screen it turns out to be solver. There are certain qualities in a di- spoke at a press conference and ad- be doing is just singing and being tired a quite fantastic-looking piece of cine- rector that I look for, a certain mentality. Was the chance to work with dressed – among other things – his in- from being on the road, being sick of the ma. There’s no ego when it comes to me Elizabeth Olsen, who plays the FBI jury. songs and singing them over and over. making a film. I don’t care if I’m the lead agent in Wind River, part of the appeal Who knows? But I really enjoy the Is it difficult to fill in in your mind or not I’m just there to help serve the sto- for you? What actually happened to your choices I’ve made and I feel just blessed what the scene is going to look like to ry and let the director tell that story. Well, yeah! I got to know her pretty arms? You had some people worried that I have the opportunity to express audiences when all the technicians are well on two of the Avengers movies. It in those pictures here wearing your myself in many different forms. done? What do directors you admire do to was a great opportunity to work with arm and wrist braces. A filming acci- I’m always surprised when it comes to help you achieve the performance you a friend in a different capacity. There dent? How is it as an actor in big-budget films like Avengers and the universe of want and to reach such emotional was a lot of shorthand we had because I broke my arms on a stunt while we action films in which you have to in- what comes out. It’s actually the only depth? we knew each other well and love each were shooting. Something broke, teract with creatures or settings that time I’ve really watched a movie that Having so many different takes and other. She was one of the main reasons I broke. So it goes. It’s part of the job. aren’t really there during shooting? I’ve done to see how it actually turns out. different levels of emotional output and why I wanted to do that. z There’s a lot of visual effects. VFX be- When it comes to movies like Wind withholding, different choices. You can’t Was there a time when you planned comes a huge part of filmmaking nowa- River it’s very practical so you actually be dumb and direct a movie. It requires on being a musician rather than an ac- days because it’s also done so well. I re- understand what you see is what I see. a lot of skill sets. That’s why I’m not (Recorded from press conference and tor? member watching the first Avengers and So I try not to watch those things too a director. Because I’m an idiot. written by Will Tizard.) SEE YOU THERE REPLAY JIŘÍ BARTOŠKA, KVIFF PRESIDENT NOTHING FREAKY ABOUT THAT Although a lot of you have probably already seen it, I will not miss this year’s Trudie Styler, an English actor, director, producer and the closing ceremony film, Arrival. This wife of Sting, presented the screening of her debut film Freak mysterious science-fiction movie is di- Show in the Karlovy Vary Theater yesterday afternoon. She rected by Denis Villeneuve and stars said the reason she made the movie was her desire to work on Jeremy Renner, who is in Karlovy Vary substantive stories that have “real missions in mind.” And her mission with is essential and relevant. to receive the President’s Award tonight. Freak Show In the film, Alex Lawther plays a transplanted gay teen Jeremy is an actor with a highly diverse who decides to run for “homecoming queen,” the most fab- filmography that includes both audience ulous person in the whole school. This idea doesn’t go down favorites as well as critically acclaimed so well in the American South. films. His latest film, Wind River, won Bullying, she said, is still a huge problem and it’s not get- Photo: KVIFF the Prize for Best Direction in the Un ting any better. Styler, like her main character, was also bullied as a child. Certain Regard section at this year’s “Teenage suicide numbers are escalating. I was very tak- Cannes Film Festival, and I’m excited en with the story. I have personal memories of being bullied,” pack,” she said. “Whilst it’s okay to be extraordinary when that he was able to present it at Karlovy Hospodářské noviny she said, adding she had an accident when she was small, had you get to university – indeed, you’re extolled for being Vary in person. (IR) a lot of scars on her face and looked very different than oth- a think-out-of-the-box person – when you’re in middle er kids. school, kindergarten, high school, you want to be in the

Wind River screens today at 7pm in Pavel Beneš, “Children don’t accept children if you look different or feel pack.” Národní dům Cinema. z different. And your feeling different exposes yourself to the In other words, fertile ground for bullies. z strana 2 / page 2 FESTIVAL DAILY Saturday, July 8, 2017 FAIRYTALES FOR EVERYONE THE LEGENDARY CZECH DIRECTOR WILL RECEIVE THE KVIFF PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO CZECH FILM IN CLOSING CEREMONY TONIGHT Photo: KVIFF Olga Schoberová was unforgettable in Who Wants to Kill Jessie?

I note that Stuart Hample behind the Iron Curtain could wound up as the name of give such a feminist sensibility a character in your body swap to so familiar a fairytale. comedy, You Are a Widow, Sir! I am not a fan of feminism; But the remake didn’t go I didn’t really mean it like that. ahead – what happened? But I did change it from the orig- The Russian tanks came. inal version. I didn’t want her to William Snyder was in Prague be this poor wretch, I didn’t want when the Russian occupation oc- her to be buried in ashes. It was curred...He had raised the funds František Pavlíček, who was an already. But then he got unsure. excellent theatre maker and He called the American Embassy screenwriter, who made her so and said “Send me a diplomatic self-assured. If you remember, the

Photo: KVIFF car. I want to go to the airport.” film explains that her father want- Vorlíček will present the Outdoor Cinema screening of The Girl on a Broomstick at 10.30pm tonight (original Czech version without English subtitles.) And he spent three days at the air- ed a boy, but had a girl, so he port sleeping on the floor because taught her how to ride a horse, by Cerise Howard that’s finding many new fans in Whose idea was it to incorpo- he knew how to draw Olga there were no flights. how to hunt, so she was skilled. anglophone countries after its rate speech bubbles on screen? Schoberová very well. I did, though, want her to be fun- Delighting in telling stories DVD release by Second Run. It was comic book speech, so And afterwards? ny, and witty, and to basically off-screen as much as on, Václav I took it for granted. I had had it Were you asked if you would We kept in touch on the phone, make fun of the prince. Vorlíček (87) regaled an adoring For all its ingenuity, Who in my head for a long time. Since direct the remake in America? exchanging letters, and then it audience on Thursday with Wants to Kill Jessie? has had 1945 in fact, when I saw I was going to direct it with sort of died off. He had lost con- I think these are reasons why anecdotes galore ahead of much less exposure in the West American comics owned by US Czech actors and Prague produc- fidence in investing the money in the film has aged very well. a screening of Who Wants to than many of its New Wave con- soldiers. But I had to make a name tion design; the producer had giv- some strange occupied country. It When I read the script for the Kill Jessie?, his innovative 1966 temporaries. Do you think it for myself before I could make en me a free hand. And there was was just terrible timing. I didn’t very first time I said, OK, film in which comic books and should be better known? such a film. even my friend and colleague’s mind though, because I was Pavlíček has really gone mad – cinema collide and merge as There was an American at the script, which we were asked to shooting two new movies, You he’s completely destroyed our never before. Here Vorlíček festival in Locarno in 1967 who Was Kája Saudek well Americanize a little, in terms of Are a Widow, Sir and Girl on beloved Božena Němcová’s shares a few reminiscences sur- said “I really like the movie and known? His comic artwork is the actual story, for the a Broomstick. And then they said Cinderella and turned her into rounding the creation of Jessie, I want you to make an American such a feature of the film. Americans to understand it bet- “You’re really good at fairytales, a character who’s sympathetic to whose eponym’s iconic embod- remake.” So it was kind of ex- He was known, but not neces- ter. The screenwriter was going you should keep doing fairy- all age groups. It wasn’t for kids, iment by Olga Schoberová is posed to the West. But he also sarily that famous...He knew to be a man named Stuart tales.” really, it was for everybody – for a feature of this year’s KVIFF asked, “why didn’t you make it in comics well, he knew the interna- Hample... And he had whole families, including grand- posters, and some thoughts on color?” This was William Snyder, tional scene. He learned from the a friend...His name was Woody Onto Cinderella then. Many parents. So I decided I’m going to Three Chestnuts for Cinderella, an independent New York pro- masters. The reason I asked him Allen. We had no idea who he people introduced to it now are keep making movies like that, his beloved fairytale from 1973 ducer. to do the opening credits was that was, back then. surprised that a 1970s film from movies that are for everybody. z

THREE PICKS FOR TODAY ON THE TOWN MARTINA VACKOVÁ, AUSSIE & KIWI FILM FEST DIRECTOR BEN NICHOLSON, FREELANCE FILM CRITIC

How is it that you can completely IN THE FADE fail to recognize a star on screen and instead see only a desperate woman Director: Fatih Akin and mother? Correspondingly Germany/France, 2017, 106min Diane Kruger was awarded Best July 8, 1pm, Národní dům Cinema Actress at the recent Cannes Film Festival. The world has been under- going major changes lately and di- the story of Katja, whose happy lieve in a just society. But what if it rector Fatih Akin depicts well the family life is torn apart by sudden fails you – should you take justice resultant anxiety. His thriller tells tragedy. Like Katja, you want to be- into your own hands?

David is a boy who’s a bit differ- KEEP THE CHANGE ent – but not as different as all that. And this is a romantic comedy with Director: Rachel Israel a difference – but it’s not really as USA, 2017, 94min different as all that either. We meet July 8, 2pm, Drahomíra Cinema David – and David meets Sarah and falls in love with her – through the intervention of a New York sup- story is great and romantic, espe- is not a “big” film, but it is a sure- port group for people, like them, on cially when there are people we fire crowd-pleaser, perfect for clos-

the autism spectrum. Every love have to fight for our love with. This ing your KVIFF with. Photo: If you are lucky, you can spot a female red-backed shrike in the the Slavkov forest. In a rare insight for viewers, the MENASHE My visit to Karlovy Vary for arrangements also draw in lots of the ground. I was also excited to film is set, and shot somewhat clan- Director: Joshua Z Weinstein KVIFF52 has been an intensive butterflies. One evening I even see my very first red-backed destinely, in the heart of Brooklyn's few days devoted primarily to ad- saw a hedgehog scuttling across shrike and even saw it fighting off ultra–Orthodox Jewish community, USA/Israel, 2017, 81min ventures cinematic rather than the pavement, heading for the a jay who tried to eat one of its where people speak Yiddish and July 8, 10pm, Národní dům Cinema culinary. However, as a wildlife bushes of the park. chicks! don’t welcome the trappings of fanatic and keen bird-watcher, modern life. The title character – I’ve managed to find some time to Slavkovský les Hotel Thermal a flawed but endearing widower try- played by web comedian Menashe poses a familiar conundrum – take in the town’s interesting ani- A few mornings I’ve managed For those who’d rather not trek ing to raise his son on his own, in Lustig, whose own life served as the whether to follow dogma or to listen mal activity. to get up early to walk on the into the woods, the festival hub it- defiance of community rules – is loose model for the story. The story to your heart and act accordingly? z edge of the Slavkov forest and up self has an abundance of bird life. Smetanovy sady to a hill overlooking Thermal. Swallows and swifts can be seen Just across the Tépla sits the After the initial climb from performing their aerial acrobatics KVIFFEFE – TWEET OF THE DAY Smetanovy sady park. A lovely Svahová, it’s a lovely walk overhead, flying up and down the spot to sit and relax, but also through the woodlands with lots river. Higher up, those screeching a great place to keep an eye out of blackcaps, hawfinches, and birds hovering above Thermal for birds. Walking through the woodpeckers. One morning with long thin tails are lesser park I’ve come across blue tits, a honey buzzard swooped glori- kestrels. Closer to the ground, great tits, greenfinches and on one ously through the trees, hunting - I saw both grey and white wag- occasion a bullfinch. It’s a real he was probably looking for one tails. I even saw one on the red sun trap and the beautiful flower of the bank voles I kept seeing on carpet! z

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by Will Tizard, feature Embrace of the Serpent (KVIFF 2015) won the top prize Michael Stein following its premiere screening in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight The KVIFF Official Selection (2015) and became the first jury brings an impressive back- Colombian movie to be nominat- ground in art film to their role in ed for the Academy Award for choosing the Crystal Globe win- Best Foreign Language Film. ners, which will be announced at tonight’s closing gala. The fest Michel Merkt generally gathers an international He is a Golden Globe-winning group of experts in fields that may producer based in Monaco who include directing, writing, acting, focuses on international feature producing, editing, music or oth- films for cinema with a very ers. This year’s five jury members strong artistic trademark. After keep the bar high with equally di- ten years and more than 50 verse knowledge bases and vast movies by the likes of Paul international experience working Verhoeven (Elle), Maren Ade on a range of projects. (Toni Erdmann), Xavier Dolan (It’s Only the End of the World), Anna Brüggemann David Cronenberg (Maps to the Born in Munich, the German Stars,) and Walter Hill (The actress and screenwriter grew up Assignment), he returns this year in South Africa and various parts to Karlovy Vary, where he en- of Germany. She got her first part tered one of his films in 2012. He at age 15, having wanted to act holds Monaco’s Medal of since childhood. She has ap- Cultural Merit, and this year at peared in numerous motion pic- Cannes he was honored with the tures, including Sebastian title Variety Creative Producer of Schipper’s Sometime in August, the Year. Kleinruppin Forever by Carsten Fiebeler, and in several episodes Štefan Uhrík of the cult series Crime Scene. In The Slovak screenwriter, pro-

2006 she and her brother Dietrich Photo: KVIFF ducer, festival organizer, and jour- started writing scripts together for From left, Štefan Uhrík, Anna Brüggemann, Michel Merkt, Sarah Flack and Ciro Guerra as this year’s jury. nalist graduated in scriptwriting his films, in which she also took and script editing from Prague’s one of the leads (Run if You Can, petition at KVIFF. She is current- Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Cannes. She won an Emmy and films: Schizopolis, The Limey and Film Academy (FAMU). During 2010; Move, 2012). At the 2014 ly writing her first novel, Split Translation, and their coopera- an American Cinema Editors Full Frontal. She graduated from the 1980s and early 1990s he Berlinale, the siblings received Up. tion continued with Marie- Award for co-editing the HBO Brown University with degrees in worked for Slovak Television as the Best Script Silver Bear for Antoinette, Somewhere, The movie Cinema Verite. Her first political science and semiotics, a commissioning editor, and then Stations of the Cross. A year later, Sarah Flack Bling Ring, A Very Murray film job came on the Prague set and in 2016 she was invited to for Barrandov Film Studios in Brüggemann shone in her broth- Film editor based in New York. Christmas and The Beguiled, of Steven Soderbergh’s Kafka, join the Academy of Motion Prague. As the head of Miloš er’s satire Heil, presented in com- She won a BAFTA for editing which was presented this year at and she later edited three of his Picture Arts and Sciences. Havel’s Script Foundation he fo- cused on the Czech film industry, Ciro Guerra continuing his support for screen- Present Standings* Colombian director born in Río writers as a member of the RWE AUDIENCE AWARD de Oro. Guerra’s first two pic- Barrandov script fund board. Scoring: 1 is the top score, 5 is the lowest tures, Wandering Shadows (2004) He has scripted a number and The Wind Journeys (2009), of made-for-TV movies and the are widely ranked with his coun- film Only a Day (1988). In THE CAKEMAKER 1,17 MASARYK 1,24 try’s best cinematic output, and 1992 he created the Forum of 1 The Cakemaker 6 A Prominent Patient they traveled to more than 160 Independents section at KVIFF, festivals, including Cannes (Un serving as programmer until ČERVENÁ Certain Regard), Toronto, San 2007. From 2007-16 he was 1,18 THE BIG SICK 1,26 2 Cervena 7 The Big Sick Sebastián, Rotterdam, Locarno, program director of Febiofest and Tribeca. Both films were re- (Prague IFF). Between 1993 and leased commercially in several 2011 he produced and directed KEEP THE CHANGE 1,22 BÁBA Z LEDU 1,29 countries and received more than “Filmopolis,” a monthly TV 3 Keep The Change 8 Ice Mother 40 international awards. His third magazine. z

AUS DEM NICHTS 1,22 FREAK SHOW 1,29 4 In the Fade 9 Freak Show

OBCHOD NA KORZE 1,23 SVĚT PODLE DALIBORKA 1,30 5 The Shop on Main Street 10 The White World According to Daliborek

*Final results will be announced at the closing ceremony tonight. CRITICS’ TABLE

For the duration of the festival we asked renowned film critics from around the world for their rating of this year’s Official Selection films, 5 being the top score and 1 the lowest. In the eyes of the press the winner of the Official Selection category is the penetrating Russian drama Arrhythmia by director Boris Khlebnikov. The Cakemaker Birds Are Singing in Kigali Arrhythmia Ralang Road The Line Keep the Change Khibula More Corporate Little Crusader Breaking News Men Don’t Cry

Ben Croll, The Wrap, France 3,5 – – 3 3,5 – – – 3 2,5 – –

Hala El Mawy, Le Progres Egyptien, Egypt 5 3,5 4,5 3 3 4 3,5 4 4,5 3 3,5 3,5

Joseph Fahim, Middle East Institute, Egypt 2 4 1,5 4 3 3,5 4 3,5 2,5 3,5 3 3,5

Barbara Hollender, Rzeczpospolita, Poland 5 3,5 2 3,5 2,5 2,5 3,5 4 4 4 1,5 5

Peter Paul Huth, ZDF, Germany 5 4 3 4 4 2,5 1 5 3 3,5 2 2

Dubravka Lakić, Politika, Serbia 5 2,5 2 3 2,5 2 2,5 3,5 2,5 3,5 2 2,5

Věra Míšková, Právo, Czech Republic 5 – – 3,5 2,5 2,5 3 3,5 3 4,5 1,5 3

Stas Tyrkin, Komsomolskaja pravda, Russia 5 3 2 5 2,5 4 3 3 4 3 3 4

Zbyněk Vlasák, Festivalový deník, Czech Republic 5 2 2 4 3 2,5 3 3,5 3,5 3 2,5 3

AVERAGE SCORE 4,5 3,21 2,43 3,67 2,94 2,94 2,94 3,75 3,33 3,39 2,38 3,31

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SHOOTING IN THE DARK DAILY RANT CERISE HOWARD, FESTIVAL DAILY WRITER LOCAL FILMMAKERS ON THE CHALLENGES OF MAKING MOVIES IN ESTONIA by Michael Stein REQUIEM FOR A FESTIVAL (DAILY)

One of the more striking pres- The end of a festival can be this great lumbering beast of a fes- ences at this year’s KVIFF comes equal parts a triumphant and tival operates, and I’ve got to know from the small Baltic country of melancholy time. For those who some really terrific people, within Estonia, whose three films at the have gone the distance, exhaustion and without the Festival Daily festival display a wide range of can actually have set in several team. subjects and visual styles as well days prior, biding its time till after Also, thinking and writing as some remarkable performanc- the bitter end before pouncing up- about film are great enthusiasms es. From the surreal black-and- on the unwitting, delirious, auto- of mine to which this Daily gig white November to the domestic piloting, cinemaholic festivalgoer, has ensured I bring some much- The Man Who Looks drama of wreaking nineteen different types needed discipline. Deadlines Like Me to the ironic symbolism of havoc with their wellbeing only which cannot possibly yield, day of The End of the Chain, Estonian once they’ve been restored to their in, day out, are great for toning the cinema is putting itself on the workaday digs. It’s quite possible writing muscles, and for keeping map. to run on empty for a day, even that unwelcome country cousin In The Man Who Looks Like three, but the post-fest comedown Procrastination at bay. Me, directed by Katrin and Andres Photo: KVIFF The starkly lit cupboard that has Maimik, father and son issues get Evelin Võigemast plays a woman who comes between father and son in The Man Who Looks Like Me. becomes more a smackdown by delved into with comedy and sen- the time it catches up with you. housed me and my colleagues - sitivity. “I always liked the, how cinematic theme,” says Andres moving comedy The End of the very difficult. Also filming in I fancy I have something akin to grizzled veteran Will Tizard, do you put it, relationship eco- Maimik. Chain, directed by Priit Pääsuke in a fast food burger place brought up this to look forward to... twice-bitten Michael Stein and ed- nomics between very close rela- Andres Maimik thinks that the his feature debut. The story of an a special dilemma for the Estonian But hurrah! Hooray! Callooh! itor and hňup anthropologist Iva tives. It could be father and son, quality of films in Estonia is im- employee’s eerily chaotic last day production due to the simple fact Callay! Between just the four of us Roze - has been a most fruitfully mother and daughter, husband and proving every year and that the at a fast food burger restaurant be- that besides McDonalds there sim- in the English section, we man- challenging environment in which wife. Always there’s an element of films are achieving a higher visual fore it shuts down is shot almost ply are none in the country. So aged to put out as many as nine to hunker down and actually, seri- power struggle and that’s a very level in particular, but Rain Tolk, entirely within and around the Pääsuke says they had to build four-page issues of the Daily in ously write some fucking copy. who plays the son in The Man restaurant location yet never feels their own. They looked for a small only as many days. Champagne And often. Denied any natural light Who Looks Like Me, says he is limited visually. “We liked the building with glass walls, and re- please, waiter! And don’t skimp on and starved of big screen time, skeptical that the scripts being idea of shooting the film in one built everything inside in a week the lobster! I have taken succor at my desk in- written are keeping pace with place, it was a challenging idea to create the fictional chain. However, it’s oddly discombob- stead from too much coffee, these improvements. and we developed the visuals Perhaps the biggest challenge of ulating, as the festival enters its a steady stream of evolving riffs on The film’s lead actress Evelin around that,” Pääsuke says. “I re- all was getting the film made at twilight hours, to feel that one had impenetrable in-jokes, paper cups Võigemast claims there aren’t ally liked the concept that it’s all. “It was my first feature, so it been right in the thick of things full of whatever liquor’s going and enough roles in film for actors be- placed in one burger joint and wasn’t easy to compete,” he says. throughout whilst also barely at- a range of nibbles whose claims to cause of the small size of the there are many different guests “But we had lots of private sup- tending the festival at all - at least, being foodstuffs have sometimes Estonian industry. “I actually with crises with an urge to talk port – friends, filmmakers came to not as most people know it. been questionable. work in theater. I’ve been working about it.” help us, came to work for free.” As something of a cinemaholic I have nonetheless enjoyed my- in theater for 15 years and this is Making the film required over- “I think the film talks about the myself, attending my fifth succes- self immensely, and I’ve greatly my fourth movie, but not enough coming a number of obstacles, absurdity of life – in a way it’s sive Vary, it’s very odd not to have enjoyed my colleagues, too. movies are being made. There one of which was that they shot it funny, in a way it’s sad. And also managed even an average of a sin- I might even, almighty Zlom will- should be a lot more. The industry at the darkest time of year, leaving in a way the burger joint is a mi- gle film a day; three to four daily ing (refer note above re in-jokes),

Photo: KVIFF is small and there is not enough them with only a few hours of ni-model of the world where all is more my usual speed. On the sign up for just such a gig as this Director Priit Pääsuke presenting money for everyone.” daylight to work with. This made kinds of people come together,” other hand, I’ve been afforded again. his debut The End of the Chain. Võigemast also appears in the getting the proper lighting effects he adds. z a rare, privileged insight into how Vive le festival (daily)! z KVIFF52 IN 'KVOTES'

Casey Affleck on boundaries Andres Maimik, director of The between actor and character: Maryam Goormaghtigh, Man Who Looks Like Me on how “There’s a lot that’s said director of Before Summer Ends, he and his co-director Katrin about actors who take speaking of the Iranian protago- Maimik take inspiration the characters home and have nists in her documentary comedy from reality: to be called by the character’s road-trip: “Because we are not really name and do all the things great “We are different when talented filmmakers we must actors do. I’m not really like that we are in our homelands and steal our themes and motifs from but you can’t help but spend so we become different when real life and my life affords me much time with the character we leave it for somewhere else.” very juicy material in the and not have it affect you just dramaturgical sense.” a little bit.”

Eva Zaoralová on seeking Marek Eben on Czech Václav Vorlíček, when asked an Italian film in her early empathy for Americans about his relationship with an- days at KVIFF: grappling with an embarrassing other filmmaker who shall re- “I said Karlovy Vary Film president: main nameless: Festival. Their reply was “Now you know “He wouldn’t eat ‘Carlo cosa?’ – Carlo what?” what it’s like.” me unsalted.”

Mohammad Atebaei, film Second Run founder Mehelli P. Stuart Robinson, critic at distributor, on the tree named Modi on his first encounters Montages in Norway on the film for Iranian director Abbas with Eastern European cinema, The Misandrists by Bruce Kiarostami at KVIFF this year, living in Bombay: LaBruce: speaking to Financial Tribune: “The Soviets sent films from “Got to love-hate a film bent “Coming to the festival, Poland, Hungary, on offending everyone, Kiarostami often sat under the Czechoslovakia, Russia. Nobody patriarchs and feminists alike.” tree and enjoyed its beauty. went to see them except for me.” Actually, he loved nature.”

Critic Boyd van Hoeij on his Director Benjamin Barfoot on choice of The Blue Lagoon, as getting the balance of horror Actor Simon Al-Bazoon on the film that inspired him at the and comedy right in his debut being cast in Aki Kaurismäki’s onset of his career. feature Double Date: film The Other Side of Hope: “Favorite films resonate “If someone smashes a person “We were sitting and doing because you love them rationally over the head with a bottle, the Arabic voice test and after as well as irrationally. Favorite I want the audience to feel that that they said this is Aki films, like favorite books or plays reality. There's blood and pain, Kaurismäki’s movie and you or other works or art, even if there's comedy all around have been chosen for that movie. resonate personally because it. In fact, it tends to just add to ‘Congratulations!’ Sherwan of the context in which we first the comedy ‘cause you’re playing was like: ‘Wow, it’s amazing, saw them as well as the memory it straight even when it’s obviously unbelievable.’ And I was like, of how they made us feel not. That mix starts to take on ‘Who’s Aki?” or what they made a life of its own when I edit it all us understand or discover.” together. Almost like chemistry.“

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