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OSCAR CONTENDING DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT – Lauren Melinda on Transforming Personal Grief Into BEFORE YOU

Before You has emerged as one of the most emotionally arresting contenders of the season — an intimate, devastating portrait of a couple navigating the end of a planned pregnancy. The film arrives without spectacle or political framing, instead carrying the soft, unspoken weight of lived experience. It is a work built from silence, color, memory, and the kind of grief that resists public language. In … Continue reading OSCAR CONTENDING DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT – Lauren Melinda on Transforming Personal Grief Into BEFORE YOU

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OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Interview with Samuel Flückiger director of the Oscar-qualifying ‘Unser Kind’

The fact that surrogacy is illegal in Switzerland adds a layer of complexity to the story. How did you approach this sensitive and taboo subject in your writing and direction? Since UNSER KIND does deal with such a sensitive and taboo subject, it was incredibly important to me to strive for as much emotional, social and medical authenticity as possible. While this can be achieved … Continue reading OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Interview with Samuel Flückiger director of the Oscar-qualifying ‘Unser Kind’

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