Valeska Grisebach

The wait for Valeska Grisebach’s third feature has been well worth it. The film is entirely unique and confident interpretation of what we might define as a classical movie western. She casts newcomer Meinhard Neumann as an enigmatic construction worker who heads to Bulgaria for a job, only to be trapped in the middle of a war of attrition between the brash ex-pats and suspicious locals.

Grisebach: It was a mix of things: I had a child; I became a mother at 40 and I really