Directors' Quotes (Monday 6/11)

The Surface of Things by Nancy Biniadaki

"For the girls who grew up in the cement 1980 Athens, who dreamt of ancient subterranean rivers and fell in love with dark heroes, those girls was the movie made for".

Sacrilege by Marsa Makri

"In my "cinema" the filmic theatricality is underlined by a music-like visual arts aesthetic and a high depth of field, in a constant quest for a new (?) transcendent narrative". 

Life Guidance by Ruth Mader

Human freedom comes to an end within a framework that includes everything currently famliar and considered as normal”.

Grain by Semih Kaplanoğlu

“We humans keep creating new and unbreachable borders. We build these walls, these borders, in the name of security, even though we are not even aware that what we are actually doing is building prisons for ourselves”.

The Invisible Hand by David Macián

"Arbeit macht frei" said the Nazis a long time ago, and it seems that nowadays many people believe it.

Charleston by Andrei Cretulescu 

“That very fine line in between drama and laughter is the -only way to deal with love and grief. To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again, as Leonard Coen said”.