Yorgos Lanthimos has issued a warning for the independent film sector, saying “it is getting more and more difficult” for independent films with “different themes” to get made.

“It has been a trend for a long time,” said Lanthimos, speaking at the press conference for his Venice Competition title Bugonia . “The weird and complicated thing about cinema is that it’s both art and entertainment. Because of the cost to make films, it becomes very challenging to choose which films are going to be made.”

“There are films that are both [art and entertainment], so it’s a very complicated landscape. I wouldn’t rush to separate everything to categories, which is an important theme of this film – how we have bias as people, how we view other individuals, other groups, and we can’t see through that

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