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Birgitte Stærmose’s Berlin Panorama Title ‘Afterwar’ Launches Trailer of a Film Which Asks What It Means to Grow Up in a Post-War Society (EXCLUSIVE)
Acclaimed Danish writer-director Birgitte Stærmose Unpacks ‘Afterwar’, the Berlinale Panorama entry, which gets a trailer.
On her hybrid cinematic style, Stærmose says she is first and foremost a fiction helmer, but Kosovo’s reality which she found “intense and fascinating” when she first experienced it in 2006, sparked her desire “to be formalistically daring”. While “Out of Love” was penned by the celebrated Danish screenwriter and playwright Peter Asmussen (“Breaking the Waves,” “Day and Night”), his death in 2016 forced Stærmose to follow his footsteps with “Afterwar”. “It was an incredibly difficult film to make, so I don’t know where to start!” she comments, before itemizing filming in the streets, in the mountains under minus 20 degrees, doing fairly big ambitious fictional scenes with a small documentary crew, getting COVID day one of shooting the last instalment, keeping the project going through a pandemic on a very small budget, having to be incredibly flexible and improvisational at all times, while still maintaining a stringent cinematic goal, trusting in the experiment and trusting the process during such a long period.”
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