In conversation as part of our IFFR Talks programme during IFFR 2021 in February were Mads Mikkelsen, Kelly Reichardt, Benoît Jacquot, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Dea Kulumbegashvili and Nicolás Jaar. All Big Talks are available to watch online worldwide.
Mads Mikkelsen
A wide-ranging discussion with top Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, who since Pusher (1996) has delivered one impressive film performance after another, negotiating big-budget Hollywood productions and Danish films alike. For IFFR’s opening film Riders of Justice, Mikkelsen cooperated with director Anders Thomas Jensen for the fifth time.
Kelly Reichardt
American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, winner of the Robby Müller Award 2021, talks about her films and how she makes them. The landscape of Oregon plays a major role in her oeuvre – from her international breakthrough second film, Tiger Award winner Old Joy (2006), right through to her latest, the Western First Cow.
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese presented his striking feature debut This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection at IFFR in 2020. Festival director Vanja Kaludjercic asks this self-taught filmmaker, screenwriter and visual artist about his work and his participation in the Vive le cinéma! exhibition in Eye Filmmuseum in 2021.
Benoît Jacquot & Charlotte Gainsbourg
For his new film Suzanna Andler, director and screenwriter Benoît Jacquot (Les adieux à la reine, Trois coeurs) once again joins forces with actor Charlotte Gainsbourg – one of the most interesting faces of European cinema. An in-depth discussion of their collaboration, directing focused on actors and the influence of Marguerite Duras on Jacquot’s career.
Dea Kulumbegashvili & Nicolás Jaar
Music is hardly heard in the award-winning film Beginning, but sound plays a prominent role in this feature debut about a Jehova’s Witness resisting patriarchal society. Chilean composer Jaar and Georgian filmmaker Kulumbegashvili discuss their unique collaboration on the film’s soundtrack, as well as the crossovers between sound and image.
