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Ep 140: Christine Vachon, Dana Linssen and more, live from International Film Festival Rotterdam

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Live from the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Anna Smith is joined on stage by an international panel of inspiring industry figures. Prolific power-house Christine Vachon chats about how it feels to have produced over 100 films, and the job of using “disruption for opportunity”. She also has valuable advice for would-be producers. Friend of Girls On Film Dutch film critic Dana Linssen co-curated the Critics’ Choice selection at IFFR for the ninth year running. She joins Anna to speak about her love for this year’s female-directed films in the strand, Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun and Nafiss Nia’s That Afternoon (or Die middag). In That Afternoon, which received its world premiere this year at the festival, director Nafiss Nia takes us with refugee Roya, played by Hoda Niku, as her life intersects with Nassim, played by Alin Wishka, one afternoon. Nafiss Nia joins Anna and Dana on-stage to give insight into her film, and the importance in her filmmaking of language in her “father tongue” Dutch, as a poet and native Persian speaker.
Anna is also joined by Superposition director Karoline Lyngbye and one of the film’s stars, Marie Bach Hansen, who plays Stine. Superposition follows writer Stine and her partner, podcaster Teit (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) as they retreat off-grid for a year with their son Nemo to save their relationship, until … well, that’s all we can say without spoilers! Karoline and Marie speak about their experience of working in Denmark in film, television and theatre and the discussions they had about gender while making the film.

2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam is taking place from the 25th January 2023 to the 5th February 2023. For all information go to:
https://iffr.com/en
Hear Vanja Kaludjercic, director of IFFR, talk more about the festival and programme on episode 137 of Girls On Film: https://pod.fo/e/15b92a

Films mentioned in this episode include:
The Woman King, Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2022
The Wonder, Sebastián Lelio, 2022
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Sophie Hyde, 2022
Aftersun, Charlotte Wells, 2022
That Afternoon (aka Die middag), Nafiss Nia, 2023
Past Lives, Celine Song, 2023
Zola, Janicza Bravo, 2020
Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes, 2022
The Notorious Bettie Page, Mary Harron, 2005
She Came to Me, Rebecca Miller, 2023 (Starring Anne Hathaway, Marisa Tomei, Peter Dinklage, Joanna Kulig, Brian d'Arcy James)
The Blair Witch Project, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, 1999
Superposition, Karoline Lyngbye, 2023
The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers, 2019

Television mentioned in this episode include:
Dansegarderoben, 2023

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Girls On Film is an HLA production.

Host: Anna Smith.
Executive Producer: Hedda Archbold
Producer: Lydia Scott
Audio Producer: Emma Butt
Intern: Eleanor Hardy

House band: MX Tyrants

Principal Partners: Vanessa Smith and Peter Brewer.
This episode is in partnership with International Film Festival Rotterdam

Credit: Sony Pictures for Zola clip.
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