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Pluk the Director
Saturday 03 August 2019
“I wanted to let the audience and my characters become friends”
In Shô Miyake lighthearted drama And Your Bird Can Sing, three young adults flutter trough the streets of Hakodate. We talked to the director about making a movie about youth.
Pluk the Director
Friday 24 August 2018
“If the film works, I’ve alienated my entire audience some way or another”
Russian-Amercian director Eugene Kotlyarenko echoes his previous shameless LA-hipster-portrait and his tech-savy feature film debut in Wobble Palace, a battle of the sexes-comedy from LA that uniquely captures our collective obsession with our smartphones.
Pluk the Director
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Always be nice, always be flexible
In Casting, German director Nicolas Wackerbarth takes us behind the scenes of a rather doomed film production. “The fun thing is that it’s actors playing actors. They all know this profession, they’re commenting on their own business – show business.”
Pluk the Director
Sunday 19 August 2018
Living in the Moment
With his debut feature film Whatever Happens Next, German director Julian Pörkson tells the story of Paul, who leaves behind his comfortable life and chooses an existence guided by coincidence and chance. “Paul can go wherever he wants, which was a lot of fun in the writing.”
Pluk the Director
Thursday 02 August 2018
“My family deals with tragedy through dark comedy”
You can’t choose your family, as Clayton Jacobson’s comedy-thriller Brothers’ Nest shows. “Somebody can say that they love you but if they’re stabbing you with a knife there’s a fair chance that they’re not being sincere.”
Pluk the Director
Wednesday 01 August 2018
“I want you to be part of this gang for an hour and a half”
While the opening film for Pluk 2018 is fiction, Denmark also partly tells director Kasper Rune Larsen’s own story: “It’s not like anything has really changed. That’s pretty scary.”
Pluk the Director
Thursday 24 August 2017
Featherlight Family
With three films each under their belts, old friends Alicia Scherson and Christián Jiménez decided to team up for the first time for Family Life, a story that’s very personal for both of them.
Pluk the Director
Wednesday 23 August 2017
“My drawings often even surprised myself”
Thursday is Shorts Night, so we have a lot of directors to talk to. The German directing sisters Kirsten Carina en Ines Christine Geisser, known together as “kiin.”, tel lus about their horsey animation Lucky.
Pluk the Director
Wednesday 23 August 2017
Revealing the invisible
Thursday is Shorts Night, so we have a lot of directors to talk to. Peter Tscherkassky tells us about his intense Midnight Short Outer Space, which he compiled from found footage.
Pluk the Director
Wednesday 23 August 2017
15,000 sparklers
Thursday is Shorts Night, so we have a lot of directors to talk to. Canadian director Matthew Rankin tells us about his fantastic and fantastical Midnight Short Tesla: Lumiere mondiale.
Pluk the Director
Monday 21 August 2017
“It’s a farce disguised as a thriller”
Will nightwatchman Salvador manage to get home to his pregnant wife, who has gone into labor? Director Diego Ros tells us all about his esoteric and fascinating film debut El Vigilante.
Pluk the Director
Monday 21 August 2017
“I’m revealing my demons on screen”
The Croatian photographer Vladimira Spindler (41) makes her film debut with the rawly emotional short documentary Mom, Why Are You Crying?, which draws directly on her own life and her battle with depression, she tells us.
