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Interview with György Pálfi and Zsófia Ruttkay for Hen presented at 2025 Toronto International Film Festival - Platform Prize section. Interview conducted by Eric Lavallée for IONCINEMA.com.
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Timestamps:
0:39 - How is it to work outside of your own film system to make and finance your cinema?
5:06 - Did the POV of the animal perspective give you perspective into the human condition - what was the starting point for this project?
8:10 - I was thinking back to Final Cut Ladies and Gentlemen - it was very much a film about how humans move and feel - did you start seeing human qualities here when working on this film?
11:22 - What did you learn from your performers (the hens)?
16:02 - On paper this is a logistic nightmare - how did two decades of filmmaking prepare you for this?
19:09 - I'll tell you about my favorite sequence - one of common healing - tell me about the logistics behind the sequence and how it came about and its meaning to you
22:30 - This is the silver anniversary in your filmography - things have changed a lot since 2006's Taxidermia - how do you think about cinema today?
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CREDITS
Producers: Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel, Costas Lambropoulos, Giorgos Kiriakos
Director: György Pálfi
Screenplay: György Pálfi, Zsófia Ruttkay
Cinematography: Giorgos Karvelas
Editing: Lehmhényi Réka
Production Designer: Konstantinos Zamanis
Costume Designer: Vassilis Barbarigos
Sound: Marinos Athanasopoulos, Erik Mischijew, Matthias Schwab
Original Score; Szabolcs Szoke
Cast: Ioannis Kokiasmenos, Maria Diakopanagioti, Argyris Pantazaras
IONCINEMA.com is a media outlet featuring daily news, reviews and interviews in American indie, world cinema, documentary film & film festivals. Our motto: We heart subtitles!
Interview with György Pálfi and Zsófia Ruttkay for Hen presented at 2025 Toronto International Film Festival - Platform Prize section. Interview conducted by Eric Lavallée for IONCINEMA.com.
Please support us by SUBSCRIBING to our Youtube channel!:
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Let us know what you think of György Pálfi's previous work including Hen - leave your comments below!
Timestamps:
0:39 - How is it to work outside of your own film system to make and finance your cinema?
5:06 - Did the POV of the animal perspective give you perspective into the human condition - what was the starting point for this project?
8:10 - I was thinking back to Final Cut Ladies and Gentlemen - it was very much a film about how humans move and feel - did you start seeing human qualities here when working on this film?
11:22 - What did you learn from your performers (the hens)?
16:02 - On paper this is a logistic nightmare - how did two decades of filmmaking prepare you for this?
19:09 - I'll tell you about my favorite sequence - one of common healing - tell me about the logistics behind the sequence and how it came about and its meaning to you
22:30 - This is the silver anniversary in your filmography - things have changed a lot since 2006's Taxidermia - how do you think about cinema today?
CONNECT with IONCINEMA.com
Visit our website: ioncinema.com
Twitter: twitter.com/ioncinema
Facebook: facebook.com/ioncinema
Instagram: instagram.com/ioncinema
CREDITS
Producers: Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel, Costas Lambropoulos, Giorgos Kiriakos
Director: György Pálfi
Screenplay: György Pálfi, Zsófia Ruttkay
Cinematography: Giorgos Karvelas
Editing: Lehmhényi Réka
Production Designer: Konstantinos Zamanis
Costume Designer: Vassilis Barbarigos
Sound: Marinos Athanasopoulos, Erik Mischijew, Matthias Schwab
Original Score; Szabolcs Szoke
Cast: Ioannis Kokiasmenos, Maria Diakopanagioti, Argyris Pantazaras
IONCINEMA.com is a media outlet featuring daily news, reviews and interviews in American indie, world cinema, documentary film & film festivals. Our motto: We heart subtitles!
