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March 19 – 30, 2025

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FILM:MAKERS IN DIALOGUE: PETER METTLER & MAX KESTNER

11:30 - 13:00 Thursday 21st Mar 2024 / 90 min

Join us for a FILM:MAKERS IN DIALOGUE with accomplished filmmakers Max Kestner (Life and Other Problems) and Peter Mettler (While the Green Grass Grows).

Pulling from a prolific body of work spanning decades, they will explore abstraction and philosophy in filmmaking. They will discuss what it means to translate visually questions about the very essence of being human and how to get subjects to open up in a trusting way on those profound themes.

Speakers

Max Kestner

Director - and King of The Unknown Land.; Graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 1997. Kestner's films have attended several international festivals and received many prizes. During the years he has received several Danish Academy Awards (Robert) and is honoured by the Dreyer Award (2005) and the Roos Award (2019). He has often worked with cross-genre films.

Peter Mettler

Known for “the innovation and audacity of his work, his dedication to the cinematic art form, and his ability to conjure up images that remain permanently etched in one's mind"- (Piers Handling TIFF Director). Mettler bridges the gap between experiment, narrative, personal essay and documentary.