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‘Supporting Role,’ about a fading actor’s odyssey through Tbilisi, made it out just before industry censorship protests and a boycott of the state funding agency intensified: "I don't want to stop doing what I love."
The Sarajevo Film Festival competition title follows fatherless 11-year-old Adela, whose life is turned upside down when her sister is forced to have an arranged marriage: "Even when you don't see the man, you can feel the patriarchy."
This year's jury president and Honorary Heart recipient opens up about her decades-long devotion to the Bosnian festival: "It's [about] resistance, survival... Rather than a whole load of cynical sales agents."
The Austrian filmmaker also touches on possibly casting a Hollywood name and why she is pragmatic about the future of European cinema: "I don’t think culture is an 'added value,' a kind of luxury item. It’s part of how a society understands itself."
The Oscar winner talks to The Hollywood Reporter at the Sarajevo Film Festival about his next film – and why the people of his native Iran deserve more than conflict: "I love them, I love that culture."
The star of Dylan Meyer's 'The Wrong Girls' on starring in the first female-fronted stoner comedy, learning to look at award season differently, and why she thinks Kelly Reichardt should be as famous as Paul Thomas Anderson.
The English actor and Irish filmmaker arrive at Edinburgh Film Festival with one of the most raucous indies of the year, backdropped by '90s rave culture and war-weary Northern Ireland: "It's not really been recorded — what it was like for young people to grow up there."
The English actors have big-budget studio projects on their slate — including 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'Scarpetta' and the 'Ocean's Eleven' prequel — so what tempted them onto Paul Wright's Edinburgh-premiering indie?
THR can unveil exclusive stills from the Rhys Ifans and Lily Rabe-starrer, set to make waves in competition at Edinburgh Film Festival.
"I spent a year praying he would say yes, like a UFO believer," said Ryninks on tempting the Hollywood star aboard his Edinburgh-premiering feature. "I just had faith that he was out there, waiting for contact."
