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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Monday 14 August 2017
“There should be more anal activists”
This year, Pluk de Nacht honors the young Japanese animator Sawako Kabuki with a retrospective. Turns out all her animated shorts are obsessive, transgressive, and rather brilliant. An exclusive interview.
Friday 26 August 2016
“The key is to always be honest”
In his second feature-length documentary Mom and Me, Irish filmmaker Ken Wardrop shines a light on the bond between mothers and sons in Oklahoma, which was recently voted the manliest state in the US.
Friday 26 August 2016
“The youth decided not to be afraid”
In his debut feature My Revolution Ramzi Bem Sliman stirs the high school comedy up a bit by introducing politics in the classroom: how can you combine political activism with life at school?
Wednesday 24 August 2016
“The violent emotions are there, just buried”
The Arnhem edition of Pluk de Nacht kicks off with This Summer Feeling by Mikhaël Hers, which was filmed in Berlin, Paris and New York. “I wanted to escape the landscape of my youth to explore new territories.”
Saturday 20 August 2016
“It’s a documentary with fictional characters”
For Illegitimate, Adrian Sitaru experiments with documentary and fiction. “It’s a complicated love story like Romeo and Juliet, but it’s about a forbidden love between siblings.”
Wednesday 17 August 2016
“I never killed any of my pets”
In Hugo Bumfeldt, we witness a child caring for his pet as it happens so often: a bit rough, sometimes dangerous but always in a loving way. The twist: the child is an alien, the pet is human. Director Éva Katinka Bognár: “I liked the strange tension between these two contrasting points of view.”
