Santiago Mitre, Lukas Dhont Among Directors Celebrated at Santa Barbara Film Festival – Film News in Brief
variety.com“Argentina 1985’s” director Santiago Mitre spent over two years researching his film on the story of th public prosecutors who took on the country’s brutal dictators.
He said his film was able to get the audience thinking about the real-world problems that go on in their own countries. Mitre joined fellow international film directors on a panel that included Jerzy Skolimowski (“EO”), Lukas Dhont (“Close”), Colm Bairéad (“The Quiet Girl”), Edward Berger (“All Quiet on the Western Front”) and Santiago Mitre (“Argentina, 1985”).
Roger Durling, the festival’s director moderated the panel. Bairéad explained how he wanted the audience to go back to their childhood through the little girl, and Durling noted the powerful use of silence in Bairéad’s film.
Berger strived for “All Quiet on the Western Front” to remain grounded in German roots and emphasized the importance of language usage.
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