Official Submission: Singapore

PANELISTS:

Anthony Chen

Producer

He Shuming

Co-Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Damon Wise

"I also wanted to make a first feature that my mom would like and would enjoy.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Spain

PANELIST:

Carla Simón

Co-Writer/Director/EP

MODERATOR: Nancy Tartaglione

"You can see when someone is a farmer for real, you see it on the skin, on the hands, the way they move in the fields." Read Story Here

Official Submission: Germany

PANELISTS:

Edward Berger

Co-Writer/
Director/Producer

Felix Kammerer

Actor

Daniel Brühl

EP/Actor

James Friend

Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Diana Lodderhose

"If you make that film as a German filmmaker in the German language and it is a German book, that film hopefully turns out to be very different than an American or a British film.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Switzerland

PANELISTS:

Michael Koch

Co-Writer/Director

Michèle Brand

Actor

MODERATOR: Damon Wise

"I think I’m one of the only ones who really wanted to be in the movie from the beginning. All the other non-professional actors had to be persuaded.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Argentina

PANELISTS:

Santiago Mitre

Director/Co-Writer/
Producer

Ricardo Darín

Actor/Producer

MODERATOR: Zac Ntim

“Santiago created this free space to create those moments that came naturally. This was important because we were able to tell a story that was hard to tell in a more human way.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Mexico

PANELISTS:

Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Co-Writer/Director/
Producer/Co-Editor/
Co-Composer

Daniel Giménez Cacho

Actor

MODERATOR: Nancy Tartaglione

“Art exists because life is not perfect, life is not enough, and art allows thankfully to reinterpret, to survive, to overcome pain and wounds." Read Story Here

Official Submission: Iceland

PANELISTS:

Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Writer/Director/EP

Sturla Brandth Grøvlen

Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Zac Ntim

"I often wished I could show my parents how my friends really were, both the good and bad sides.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Sweden

PANELIST:

Tarik Saleh

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Diana Lodderhose

“This film, at its core, is about the price of an education, or the cost of an education. The cost of knowledge, which in my opinion, is innocence.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Belgium

PANELIST:

Lukas Dhont

Co-Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Damon Wise

“I always try to start from something that is deeply important to me, and then, along the way, I try to find the universal feelings in there." Read Story Here

Official Submission: Austria

PANELIST:

Vicky Krieps

Actor

MODERATOR: Melanie Goodfellow

“I wouldn’t do it again. I really see it as a mistake, but you do mistakes and it’s part of life, and now It’s part of the movie, and I guess part of the character.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: South Korea

PANELIST:

Park Chan-wook

Co-Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Damon Wise

"In our own lives there’s no guarantee that these mysteries will be resolved. So seeing a detective who has the capacity to solve such mysteries gives us hope.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Paraguay

PANELISTS:

Paz Encina

Writer/Director/
Producer

Javier Umpierrez

Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/
Re-recording Sound Mixer

Carlos Cortés Navarrete

Sound Mixer

MODERATOR: Diana Lodderhose

"My country has had 35 years of dictatorship, my dad was exiled, so that was not foreign to me at all." Read Story Here

Official Submission: Poland

PANELISTS:

Jerzy Skolimowski

Co-Writer/Director/
Producer

Ewa Piaskowska

Co-Writer/Producer

MODERATOR: Nancy Tartaglione

"An animal character can move an audience much deeper and somehow stronger than any human character who would be performing." Read Story Here

Official Submission: Canada

PANELISTS:

Jason Loftus

Director/Producer

Daxiong

Animator/Subject

Masha Loftus

EP

MODERATOR: Damon Wise

"We went on this journey together, and he used his pen to bring to life the stories of other witnesses. It’s kind of a shared history of shared memory.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Jordan

PANELISTS:

Darin J. Sallam

Writer/Director

Deema Azar

Producer

Ayah Jardaneh

Producer

MODERATOR: Damon Wise

"As I grew up, the story grew up with me, so whenever anybody asks me, ‘How did you find the story?’ I always tell them that the story kind of found me." Read Story Here

Official Submission: Taiwan

PANELISTS:

Lou Yi-an

Co-Writer/Director/
Co-Editor

Singing Chen

Co-Writer/Co-Editor

MODERATOR: Damon Wise

“Our process was to constantly debate with each other. We were constantly having conversations about who’s right and who’s wrong — who is the villain and who is the good guy?" Read Story Here

Official Submission: Denmark

PANELISTS:

Ali Abbasi

Co-Writer/Director/
Producer

Zar Amir-Ebrahimi

Actor

MODERATOR: Diana Lodderhose

"I have to say I see the movie in a different way ... when I see these women just fighting for their freedoms and risking their lives with men in the streets of Iran it’s like this character became the reality of society.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Pakistan

PANELISTS:

Saim Sadiq

Co-Writer/Director/Co-Editor

MODERATOR: Nancy Tartaglione

"If you’re a filmmaker from Pakistan, you are compelled to be an artist and an activist at the same time and the second part nobody told me about.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Ukraine

PANELIST:

Maryna Er Gorbach

Writer/Director/
Producer/Editor

MODERATOR: Melanie Goodfellow

“In Berlin, we world premiered on 14th February, won a prize on the 22th, and just two days after everything exploded." Read Story Here

Official Submission: India

PANELISTS:

Pan Nalin

Writer/Director/
Producer/Production Designer

Bhavin Rabari

Actor

Dheer Momaya

Producer

Siddharth Roy Kapur

Producer

MODERATOR: Damon Wise

"I was 9 years old when I saw my first film, and I was just blown away. Mesmerized. Hypnotized!" Read Story Here

Official Submission: Brazil

PANELIST:

Gabriel Martins

Writer/Director/
Producer/Co-Editor

MODERATOR: Diana Lodderhose

“We never know when to laugh or if we are supposed to laugh." Read Story Here

Official Submission: The Netherlands

PANELISTS:

Martijn de Jong

Co-Writer/Director

Thekla Reuten

Actor

MODERATOR: Nancy Tartaglione

"One of them is the clairvoyance which is something that my mother does. She has this ability in real life. I’m quite ambivalent to this." Read Story Here

Official Submission: Italy

PANELISTS:

Mario Martone

Co-Writer/Director

Pierfrancesco Favino

Actor

MODERATOR: Melanie Goodfellow

“For me, this was a trip into a part of my city [Naples] I didn’t know very well. It was also a trip into some something of myself I didn’t know." Read Story Here

Official Submission: The Philippines

PANELIST:

Erik Matti

Co-Writer/Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Zac Ntim

“Rather than talk about mainstream media in the Philippines, we did a lot of research and found that the local media in small towns and small provinces are a lot more interesting." Read Story Here

Official Submission: France

PANELIST:

Alice Diop

Co-Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Damon Wise

“This case overwhelmed me. It changed me, and it really put me in dialogue with the darkest part of my relationship to maternity." Read Story Here

Official Submission: Venezuela

PANELISTS:

Lorenzo Vigas

Co-Writer/Director/
Producer

Michel Franco

Producer

Hernán Mendoza

Actor/Producer

MODERATOR: Zac Ntim

“You don’t choose your obsession, they choose you. And that was my case.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Ireland

PANELIST:

Colm Bairéad

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Diana Lodderhose

“She just had this immediate understanding of this character as someone who had learned ... to hide in a sense, in plain sight.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Norway

PANELISTS:

Kristoffer Joner

Actor

Gunnar Vikene

Writer/Director

Pål Sverre Hagen

Actor

MODERATOR: Melanie Goodfellow

“I’d been thinking about the film for 30 years, and I wrote the first version in 1½ months, with a kind of anger.” Read Story Here

Official Submission: Hong Kong

PANELIST:

Philip Yung

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Damon Wise

"I wanted to leave behind a dream of that era: a memory about Hong Kong in a former time.” Read Story Here