This article was produced as part of the Locarno Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring journalists at the Locarno Film Festival, a collaboration between the Locarno Film Festival, IndieWire and the Film Society of Lincoln Center with the support of Film Comment and the Swiss Alliance of Film Journalists. The following interview, conducted by a member of the Critics Academy, focuses on a participant in the affiliated Filmmakers Academy program at the festival.
European identity has been facing a crisis, and now the films are catching up to it. People are angrier than ever, whether they’re driven by the recent terrorist attacks in Belgium, France or Germany, by the socio-political uncertainty following the Brexit vote — and the sharp increase in racist attacks that came as a consequence of it — or even by the lingering and closely-felt effects of a mounting debt crisis. Films — acting, as they must, as a mirror of society — follow suit.
European identity has been facing a crisis, and now the films are catching up to it. People are angrier than ever, whether they’re driven by the recent terrorist attacks in Belgium, France or Germany, by the socio-political uncertainty following the Brexit vote — and the sharp increase in racist attacks that came as a consequence of it — or even by the lingering and closely-felt effects of a mounting debt crisis. Films — acting, as they must, as a mirror of society — follow suit.
- 8/12/2016
- by Ingrid Oliveira
- Indiewire
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