, by working on characters with 25 teenagers who previously did not know each other. As the film premieres in the Generation 14plus section of this yearâs Berlinale, we talked to her about this creative process and about developing the filmâs story and visual style.
Cineuropa: How did you develop your approach to the story and this teenage world?
Kateryna Gornostai: From the beginning, it was an experiment for me, because it wasn t the classical way of telling the simple story through the eyes of one character, and I was aware that it would be hard to balance between the two storylines â they shouldn t be equal. But it appeared even harder when we gathered the whole class around two main figures. A new desire appeared: to give voice to as many heroes as possible.Â
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