Improv, Openness and Spirituality – An Interview with Fernanda Tovar, the director of “Chicas Tristes”
„Chicas Tristes“ by Fernanda Tovar in this year’s 14Plus competition follows two girls on their journey to realize and cope with the sexual assault against one of them. After the film had premiered on the first Saturday of the Berlinale, some members of Generation Reports (fGR) had sat down to discuss the film. We all had been shaken and moved by the film. Meeting up with the director of the film, Fernanda Tovar, a few days later opened up new perspectives on this debut feature film. fGR: I've read somewhere that it took you seven years to write the book. With it being such a sensitive topic, how do you deal with something like that, that is so intense and hurtful, over such a long time, without breaking, but still conveying hope through the film? Fernanda Tovar: I broke a lot o...