Alice Nellis, interview with the protagonist of Europe, Now! at the 43° Bergamo Film Meeting

Czech screenwriter and director Alice Nellis is Bergamo Film Meeting’s protagonist of Europe, Now!, the section dedicated to contemporary European auteur cinema. Along with german Director Christian Petzold, Nellis will present, at the Festival, her complete filmography including her famous "Ene bene – Eeny Meeny", 2000, "Tajnosti – Little Girl Blue", 2007 and "Buko", 2022.  Her feature debut, "Ene bene" (Eeny Meeny, 2000), a tragicomedy exploring family relationships in a small Czech community during local elections, won the Best Screenplay award at the FAMU Festival and the bronze Rosa Camuna ex-aequo at the 18th edition of Bergamo Film Meeting. This success marked Nellis as an emerging voice in European cinema. About her comeback at the 43rd Bergamo Film Meeting she says: “BFM marked the start, back in 2000, of my professional international career so it’s an honor to be back” Along her career she explored, through her films and TV Series, themes like the coming-of-age, parenthood, motherhood and dysfunctional families. The director who recently returned to TV co-writing and co-directing with "Jiří Havelka" for the miniseries "Náhradníci"(Surrogates), comments on the challenges and developments of cinema narratives and TV narratives.