The London premiere of Films to Die For will be followed by a discussion between director Lúcia Nagib and Laura Mulvey, moderated by Andrew Philip.

Films to Die For brings into conversation a collection of dazzling cinematic moments, from Europe, Hollywood, and Brazil, evidencing how works from across history and geography feed from and flow into each other in a seamless continuum. Exclusive interviews with film directors Wim Wenders and Walter Salles, film critic and director Laura Mulvey, and Portuguese film producer Paulo Branco reveal the perils and passions behind the history and stories of their films.

Speakers:

Lúcia Nagib, Fellow of the British Academy, is Professor of Film at the University of Reading.  She is an internationally recognised specialist in world cinema, cinematic realism, and cinematic intermediality, which she has explored in many publications, including her single-authored books, Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema, and World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism. Before Films to Die For, she directed, with Samuel Paiva, the award-winning feature-length documentary film, Passages (2019).

Laura Mulvey is Emerita Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. A key contributor to early feminist film theory, she is the author of: Visual and Other Pleasures, Fetishism and Curiosity, Citizen Kane, Death Twenty- four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image, and Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times. She made six films in collaboration with Peter Wollen including Riddles of the Sphinx (1977), Crystal Gazing (1982), and Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1980). With artist/filmmaker Mark Lewis, she has made Disgraced Monuments (1994) and 23 August 2008 (2013).

Dr Andrew Philip is a nonfiction filmmaker and lecturer in film studies at Queens University Belfast. He previously worked in the private sector for over two decades as an editor, animator, and visual effects artist on feature films and broadcast documentaries. He has written about the characteristics of digital film colour in the context of his practice and is currently working on various videographic essays.

International Distribution: MINT Chinese Film Festival

Cast:
Wim Wenders, Walter Salles, Laura Mulvey, Paulo Branco