Press Conference - Encounter: La hermanastra fea
Sitges Encounters features talks with leading figures in genre filmmaking participating in this year's edition of the Festival.
On this occasion, the audience will have the chance to meet the team behind The Ugly Stepsister, including its director Emilie Blichfeldt, one of the most distinctive voices in the new wave of fantastic European cinema. The film revisits the codes of the classic fairy tale, transforming them into a contemporary proposal filled with irony, subversion, and a feminist perspective.
Blichfeldt, known for her sensitivity in portraying complex female characters far removed from stereotypes, finds in this story the opportunity to radically twist tradition and open a dialogue between myth and modernity. Alongside her, part of the artistic and technical team will share with the audience the challenges and creative processes behind a work that blends imagination, rawness, and dark humor to question both the fantastic genre and the roles it has perpetuated.
Participants: Emilie Blichfeldt, director; Lea Myren, actress; Thea Sophie Loch Naess, actress, and Ángel Sala, artistic director of the SIFFFC.
Language: Simultaneous translation English–Catalan–English.
On this occasion, the audience will have the chance to meet the team behind The Ugly Stepsister, including its director Emilie Blichfeldt, one of the most distinctive voices in the new wave of fantastic European cinema. The film revisits the codes of the classic fairy tale, transforming them into a contemporary proposal filled with irony, subversion, and a feminist perspective.
Blichfeldt, known for her sensitivity in portraying complex female characters far removed from stereotypes, finds in this story the opportunity to radically twist tradition and open a dialogue between myth and modernity. Alongside her, part of the artistic and technical team will share with the audience the challenges and creative processes behind a work that blends imagination, rawness, and dark humor to question both the fantastic genre and the roles it has perpetuated.
Participants: Emilie Blichfeldt, director; Lea Myren, actress; Thea Sophie Loch Naess, actress, and Ángel Sala, artistic director of the SIFFFC.
Language: Simultaneous translation English–Catalan–English.