TheWrap Magazine
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‘War Sailor’ Director on How Conversation With His Daughter Inspired the World War II Film
TheWrap magazine: Gunnar Vikene’s drama about one man’s unrelenting experience at sea is the most expensive film ever made by Norway
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How ‘Three Minutes – A Lengthening’ Turns 1 Family’s Vacation Movies Into a Startling Look at the Holocaust
TheWrap magazine: “As soon as I saw these images, I realized that these are almost certainly the only moving images of this community,” says Glenn Kurtz of his grandparents’ 1938 film
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‘The Blue Caftan’ Faces Morocco’s Ultimate Taboo in Portraying a Queer, Closeted Craftsman
TheWrap magazine: Director Maryam Touzani says that shooting a film that talks about homosexuality was “a big, big risk”
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‘All That Breathes’ Director Shaunak Sen on Breaking Nature Doc Clichés While Filming Hospitalized Birds
TheWrap magazine: “Birds popping up in every nook and cranny is so inherently cinematic,” the Delhi-based filmmaker says
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How ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Composer Created Those ‘Disturbing’ Sounds of War
TheWrap magazine: Volker Bertelmann says he used drums and harmoniums to make military sounds like shooting bullets
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‘Hallelujah’ Directors Explain How They Turned Leonard Cohen’s Song Into a Whole Movie
TheWrap magazine: Dayna Goldfine said they wanted to answer one question: “What is it about Leonard Cohen that made him the only person in the universe that could written a song like Hallelujah’?”
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How ‘Memory Box’ Turns a Stack of Teenage Notebooks Into a Movie
TheWrap magazine: “I had this strange personal archive, and we thought it would be interesting to do something with it,” says co-director Joana Hadjithomas
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Irish Oscar Entry ‘The Quiet Girl’ Has a Secret Weapon: Silence
TheWrap magazine: “The different types of silence in the film are reflective of Irish society and certain aspects of our past,” says director Colm Bairéad
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How Ukraine Oscar Entry ‘Klondike’ Tells a Timely Story Set in the Past
TheWrap magazine: “We made this film to very carefully ask the international audience: ‘What do you think about the situation on the border of Russia and Ukraine?’” says director Maryna Er Gorbach
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‘Last Flight Home’ Director on Filming Her Father Before His Medically Assisted Death
TheWrap magazine: Ondi Timoner says turning on the cameras during her dad’s final days “suddenly became so valuable to everyone”
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‘Navalny’ Director Daniel Roher: Imprisoned Russian Opposition Leader’s Impact on History is Unfulfilled
TheWrap magazine: “It’s very, very sad to know that (Alexei Navalny) has never seen our film and he may never see our film,” the filmmaker says
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‘Good Night Oppy’ Director on Making a Doc for Steven Spielberg: ‘I Wanted to Make Him Proud’
TheWrap Magazine: “Making a film like this, that’s very Spielberg in its branding, I felt intimidated,” Ryan White says of his movie about two Mars rovers
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‘Return to Seoul’ Director Davy Chou on What It Means to Live Between Two Cultures
TheWrap magazine: Chou’s film, about a woman struggling to figure out who she is and where she belongs, is Cambodia’s Oscar entry
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Why Robert Downey Jr. Gave His Blessing to ‘Sr.,’ the Documentary About His Filmmaker Father
TheWrap magazine: Director Chris Smith (“American Movie”) talks about how how the young Downey contributed to the film charting his father’s illness
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How ‘Fire of Love’ Doc Captured the Larger-Than-Life Spirit of Famed Volcanologists
TheWrap magazine: “The more we learned, and the more imagery we saw, we were just blown away — forgive the pun,” says director Sara Dosa
