Production Designer Alaine Bainée to Talk during the 24th Edition of the Week of Spanish and Ibero-American Cinema

The twenty-fourth edition of the Week of Spanish and Ibero-American Cinema this year takes place between June 1 and 11. The festival screenings are going to be at Lumiere Lidl Cinema (NDK), Euro Cinema and G-8 Cinema. The program includes titles such as The Queen of Spain starring Penelope Cruz, Barca Dreams, telling the story of the football club of the same name, Altamira with Antonio Banderas and Rupert Everett and many other hit titles. Part of the program is also the title Nobody Wants the Night for which Alaine Bainée- one of the most respected production designers in the European film industry, will tell us more. He has worked with directors such as Pedro Almodóvar (Kika), Woody Allen (Vicky, Christina, Barcelona), Brad Anderson (Transsiberian) and Pablo Berger's Snow White.

The screening of Nobody Wants the Night and his new future project brings him back to Bulgaria. The interview with him which I will show you, together with some details about this Saturday's projection of the movie, was a real pleasure.

You are not for the first time in Bulgaria. Do you like it?

I like Bulgaria a lot and I like very much Sofia. The spring is amazing in this city. And ''Boyana Film Studios Sofia'' is amazing especially for my work.

What's your definition of success?

If the success is what I am now - to choose my projects, to do what I want, to work  the way I want - it is a success, but the meaning of this word is very abstract concept.

How did you decide to work in the cinema industry?

Well, I am an architect and I've worked like one in Paris but I was too bored from the life there, from...