The German filmmaker Youdid Kahveci has an eye and passion for poetic stories with a surreal touch. She also had the guts to argue with esteemed Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Two of her shorts premiered at international film festivals: "Rough Grounds" in Locarno in 2012 and "Poema del dia" at Hot Docs in Toronto in 2015. Indiewire recently interviewed Kahveci at the Locarno Film Festival, where she was participating in the 2015 Filmmakers Academy at the recently wrapped Locarno Film Festival. Read More: Here's How Music and Sound Set the Scene for This Singapore-Based Filmmaker How did you get into filmmaking? I started kind of late. I've been at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie (dffb) since 2007. I wasn't the kid who had a 8mm camera and would make movies with my kindergarten friends. After leaving school at a very young age, I started working as a gardener, later as a bar tender. Around 2005, I had a relationship with.
- 8/18/2015
- by Kim Schelbert
- Indiewire
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