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Felix Randau on I Is Another and the Stories We Tell About Ourselves Felix Kersten, Heinrich Himmler’s massage therapist, claimed to have used his influence to save thousands of concentration camp prisoners. When filmmaker Felix Randau began researching a proposed series about Kersten’s heroism, he found a more complicated story. Randau joins Brian Laffan to discuss I Is Another, starring Claes Bang as Kersten and Valerie Pachner as a journalist determined to challenge his account. Set aboard a train to Oslo, their encounter becomes a psychological struggle over evidence, guilt and reputation. We explore how Randau’s research transformed the project, why Bang was his first choice, and how the actors helped reshape a crucial confrontation through improvisation. Randau also discusses his decision to portray Himmler without the familiar caricature, and the resistance that approach encountered. The conversation extends to the stories people construct about themselves, the relationship between fake news and…
Felix Randau on I Is Another and the Stories We Tell About Ourselves Felix Kersten, Heinrich Himmler’s massage therapist, claimed to have used his influence to save thousands of concentration camp prisoners. When filmmaker Felix Randau began researching a proposed series about Kersten’s heroism, he found a more complicated story. Randau joins Brian Laffan to discuss I Is Another, starring Claes Bang as Kersten and Valerie Pachner as a journalist determined to challenge his account. Set aboard a train to Oslo, their encounter becomes a psychological struggle over evidence, guilt and reputation. We explore how Randau’s research transformed the project, why Bang was his first choice, and how the actors helped reshape a crucial confrontation through improvisation. Randau also discusses his decision to portray Himmler without the familiar caricature, and the resistance that approach encountered. The conversation extends to the stories people construct about themselves, the relationship between fake news and…
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Felix Randau - I Is Another / Ich ist ein Anderer
SlušanoFelix Randau on I Is Another and the Stories We Tell About Ourselves Felix Kersten, Heinrich Himmler’s massage therapist, claimed to have used his influence to save thousands of concentration camp prisoners. When filmmaker Felix Randau began researching a proposed series about Kersten’s heroism, he found a more complicated story. Randau joins Brian Laffan to discuss I Is Another, starring Claes Bang as Kersten and Valerie Pachner as a journalist determined to challenge his account. Set aboard a train to Oslo, their encounter becomes a psychological struggle over evidence, guilt and reputation. We explore how Randau’s research transformed the project, why Bang was his first choice, and how the actors helped reshape a crucial confrontation through improvisation. Randau also discusses his decision to portray Himmler without the familiar caricature, and the resistance that approach encountered. The conversation extends to the stories people construct about themselves, the relationship between fake news and…
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Ivan Ostrochovský - Only Beautiful Things To Look At
SlušanoIvan Ostrochovský on Only Beautiful Things to Look At In 1980s Czechoslovakia, a doctor’s comfortable understanding of her work begins to unravel through a friendship with a young Roma colleague. In this episode of Stream Close Up, Brian Laffan speaks with Slovak filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský about Only Beautiful Things to Look At, starring Aňa Geislerová and Simona Boledovičová. Set against the forced sterilisation of Roma women, the film explores how prejudice becomes institutional practice, and how people rationalise the harm they cause. Ivan describes meeting doctors who continued to defend their actions decades later, and explains how those encounters shaped the film. We discuss the relationship between its two central characters, his approach to casting, and the striking images and intimate sound that draw us into their world. Our conversation also covers: Challenging stereotypes when portraying Roma communities. The tension between historical accuracy and emotional truth. Working with a small crew and…
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Director Aung Phyoe & Producer Thaiddhi - Fruit Gathering
SlušanoIn this episode, Brian speaks with director Aung Phyoe and cinematographer and producer Thaiddhi about Fruit Gathering, Aung’s feature debut and the winner of the Grand Prix Crystal Globe at the 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Set among textile workers in industrial Yangon, the film follows two young women searching for intimacy and escape amid economic uncertainty and social repression. Aung discusses his desire to tell a universal love story about someone who was never properly loved, and the difficulty of loving another person when you have never learned how. The conversation also explores the film’s evolution from the short Evening Clouds, its nonprofessional cast, the use of silence and a confined 4:3 frame, the meaning behind its title and spirit ceremony, and the realities of making independent cinema under Myanmar’s censorship system. Thaiddhi reflects on his long creative partnership with Aung and their shared ambition to help new voices from Myanmar become part of world cinema.…
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Karim Kassem - Pipes
SlušanoIn this episode of Stream Close Up, Brian speaks with Lebanese filmmaker Karim Kassem about his latest feature, Pipes, which premiered in the Crystal Globe Competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Set in a remote Lebanese village, Pipes follows Hassan, a solitary farmer whose routine is disrupted when workers arrive in search of a buried water pipe. What begins as a practical task gradually becomes a quiet, humorous and deeply human reflection on isolation, community, migration and the uncertain future of rural life. Karim discusses the unusual path that led him to filmmaking, including his years living in New York, his early work in photography and music videos, and the influence of growing up with a father who worked as a news cameraman. He also reflects on the experiences that shaped his earlier films, from temporarily losing his sight to returning to Beirut just before the devastating port explosion. The conversation explores Karim’s preference for working with nonprofessional…
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Šimon Holý on Chica Checa, Karlovy Vary, Drag, Family, and Finding Hope
SlušanoIn this episode of Stream Close Up, we continue our coverage of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with Czech writer and director Šimon Holý. Šimon joins us to discuss his new film Chica Checa, which had its world premiere in the festival’s main competition. The film follows a woman working in a small-town post office whose dying mother has one final wish: to see a beloved Czech pop icon perform. To make that happen, she calls her son home from France, only to discover that the life he has built for himself is very different from the one she imagined. What begins as a mission to fulfill a grandmother’s last wish becomes something warmer and more surprising: a mother and son story about rediscovery, drag performance, small-town attitudes, and the possibility of starting again later in life. Šimon talks about the dream that sparked the idea, the personal connections behind the story, and why he sees the film as both humanistic and quietly political in the current Czech context. We also discuss…
