Deep Dive Genre

Director Hannu Salonen has three projects coming out this fall. He talked to us about why he considers himself a craftsman and a storyteller first rather than a filmmaker. We discussed his interest in exploring the...

We talked to terrific director Veronika Kaserer about her new documentary Simon Messner – Aus dem Schatten , about her quest of tackling taboos and digging deep in documentary filmmaking, looking for the universal topic...

We talk to director Markus Goller about his new film 23.000 lives, why it’s important to remember we are all one – and to act accordingly, the learning curve of shooting on open water and how his experience as an editor...

First a Best Director-award for his co-writer and director of Vaterland/Fatherland Pawel Pawlikowski in Cannes and now their film opens the Munich film festival. We talk to writer Henk Handloegten how...

Prolific director Adolfo Kolmerer talks to us about his series Oderbruch, going all in with frequent collaborators Arend Remmers & Christian Alvart and why German filmmakers tend to approach genre wrong. We discuss the...

We talked to the wonderful Caro Braun about how acting expands one’s own reality and lets you be a different version of yourself. The inspiration her theatre-teacher-father was - and of course about her terrific film...

We had a fun and interesting conversation with storyboarder and 3D-Layout artist Maike Ramke-Lassahn about her creative process. How time intensive the work is, the shifts in the animation industry due to AI - and her...

Crazy turn-around times? Not unusual in Filmmaker/Animator/Illustrator Raman Djafari’s working life. We had a very interesting talk with the multi-hyphenate in our latest #DeepDiveGenre episode. About his creative...

We had a wonderful conversation with director, animator and stop-motion artist Mona Keil about her creative process. About how physical sensation is usual the inspiration for her films, the strange addiction of...

From a childhood production of Snow White to his animated feature Stitch Head – Steve Hudson has covered quite a range of projects. We talked to the director/writer & actor about the importance of emotional moments in...

We talked to sales executive and film expert Klaus Rasmussen about all things animation. Disney classic Snow White makes an appearance as does anime, puppet animation and animated films for adults. We discuss what about...

It’s been a while… but Reza Memari is back! Four years after our last talk we got to catch up with the director/writer about his newest feature: The Last Whale Singer (arriving in German cinemas 12.02.2026). We talk...

Starting February 10th Season 9 covers singing whales, stop-motion and many other aspects of the animation genre. So join us, won’t you? When we talk to directors Reza Memari, Steve Hudson and Raman Djafari, stop-motion...

Why are there more dystopias than utopias in Sci-Fi an Fantasy films? About this as well as about the enduring legacy of film classic Metropolis or the “women in space”-trope and many other interesting and fun Sci-Fi...

Director & Writer Tim Fehlbaum is back. This time our conversation about his films HELL and TIDES had us nerding out over Sci-fi genre films (shout out to #AnotherEarth). Tim reveals that budget limitations can lead to...