This is my first IFFK experience, and I am both elated from the festive mood prevailing here and also the wonderful way in which the audience responded to my film. In Songs of Love and Hate, I do not want to describe a particularly terrible family situation, but rather I would like to try to tell a story about the unsaid, the inadmittible. About looks that cause madness, about thoughts that get out of control, actually about something that happens in every family. These aspects are taken to the extreme in the movie, the psychological screws of the complicated social structure of a family are tightened until that which is not allowed to happen takes its destructive course.

With this film I wanted to pursue a desire to project secrets on the film screen ina language of images that is not documentary, but rather fairy-tale-like and full of sensuality. My aim was to create truly real figures staged in a dense, cinematic world. Also I wanted to allow natureto freely demonstrate its own powerful magnificence. Black should be deep and velvety, the sun, golden and radiating. I hope the film succeeds in taking viewers by the hand and leading them to a dark forest of the emotions. Perhaps one does not have to exactly understand what has made Lily into what she is- nonetheless one should feel that she is simply inable to act in any other way.