Ela Bittencourt

Interview: Naomi Kawase

By Ela Bittencourt

December 17, 2018

Self-reflections: the award-winning Japanese filmmaker talks about her intimate autobiographical documentary work

Festivals: Doclisboa 2018

By Ela Bittencourt

November 15, 2018

The center holds: the annual documentary film festival in Portugal presented experimental works that engaged directly with our real world

Interview: Radu Jude

By Ela Bittencourt

July 27, 2018

Slow recovery: the Romanian director of Scarred Hearts and Aferim! talks about the lasting wounds of history

Short Take: Vazante

By Ela Bittencourt

January 3, 2018

(Daniela Thomas, Brazil/Portugal, Music Box Films, January 12)

Rep Diary: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

By Ela Bittencourt

October 27, 2017

Figments of a nation: the Brazilian director’s delirious (and dangerous) allegories pulse with the enduring energies of Cinema Novo

Locarno Voices: Good Manners and Le Fort des Fous

By Ela Bittencourt

September 1, 2017

Colonial hangover: Brazilian directors Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra and Algerian director Narimane Mari probe their countries’ respective historical traumas

Review: L’Important c’est d’aimer

By Ela Bittencourt

July 3, 2017

(Andrzej Zulawski, France, Rialto Pictures, Opens July 14)

Art of the Real: Andrea Tonacci

By Ela Bittencourt

May 1, 2017

No boundaries: the late director helped define Brazil's underground film movement by breaking (and mocking) the fourth wall

Interview: Michal Marczak

By Ela Bittencourt

February 17, 2017

Party till the world ends: the director of All These Sleepless Nights talks about re-creating those all-night odysseys of youth

Interview: Andrzej Wajda

By Ela Bittencourt

February 8, 2017

Moments of truth: the Polish auteur speaks about his work's relationship to censorship and his final film, Afterimage

Interview: Eduardo Williams

By Ela Bittencourt

October 5, 2016

Expressway to your skull: the director of The Human Surge discusses his cinematic peregrinations and digital fascinations

Short Takes: Demon

By Ela Bittencourt

September 6, 2016

(Marcin Wrona, Poland/Israel, Opening September 9)

Interview: Piotr Szulkin

By Ela Bittencourt

June 29, 2015

Other worlds: an extensive, rare interview with Poland's master of allegorical science fiction during and after Communism