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New Delhi : The directors of the films in the World Panorama section of 49th IFFI-2018 – The Bra, A Sacred Gaucho, Phoenix, Autsajder and Nervous Translation addressed the media during the Film Festival of India, Goa, on November 24, 2018.

Veit Helmer, Director of the German film ‘The Bra’, said that communication with the audience is very important and it would be great to institutionalise a Q&A session with the audience after every movie screening. Quoting Alfred Hitchcock, Veit Helmer said that cinema should be about visual storytelling and that dialogue spoils the visual elements in that narration. “There is no need to think how one can talk to a universal audience. If you talk about something very personal, then everybody in the world will understand,” he added. He also inquired about the possibilities of films from diverse places like Latin America and Europe getting commercially released in India.

Joaquin Pedretti, Director of ‘A Sacred Gaucho’, said that his film is based on a popular hero who represents the poor people. He elaborated that the film has been given its particular structure based on its narrative. “It is so important for us to have the world premiere at IFFI because it is based on the symbolic tradition of India and Argentina, as we have the same type of archetypes,” he said.

Narrating the characteristics of her film, Camilla Strom Henriksen, Director of Phoenix, said that it is a dark quiet film for grown ups, children being the film’s main characters. It is about children who are forced to assume the responsibility as adults because the parents fail to do so. She pointed out that the theme of the film would resonate with many people even though the circumstances can be very different.

Adam Sikora, Director of Autsajder, said that his movie is about a very difficult time in Poland. It’s the story of a young man in 1980s and how he faces these problems. Dennese Victoria, Cinematographer of ‘Nervous translation’, said that it takes a while for the audience to adjust to a film’s language to understand what the film offers to you, according to a PIB release.

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