BACKSTAGE: 46th THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL – TWENTY-EIGHT FILMMAKERS

Fatih Akin, Guillermo Arriaga, Michael Cacoyannis, Renos Charalambidis, Patrice Chereau, Carlos Cuaron, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Amat Escalante, Ulrich Felsberg, Hrvoje Hribar, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Zenia Kaplan, Alexis Kardaras, Niki Karimi, Cedomir Kollar, Olia Lazaridou, Dora Masclavanou, Despina Mouzaki, Nico Papatakis, Chan-wook Park, Carlos Reygadas, Lucia Rikaki, Danis Tanovic, Constantine Yannaris, Lagia Yourgou: Twenty-eight film professionals varying in age, culture and style answer a questionnaire by Dimitris Yatzouzakis. The questions have nothing to do with films, and can be inconsequential, such as “what’s your favorite color?” or more contemplative and thought-provoking, such as “what’s your relation to money, poverty, violence, corruption...” The characters of the filmmakers in juxtaposition with the images they have created form a controversial anthropological kaleidoscope.