Director

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  Ido Haar

  Enlistment Days (2012)9 Star Hotel (2008)Melting Siberia (2004) When I first started to work on Thru You Princess, I couldn’t stop thinking about some of my friends from film school—those who were the most original, bright and talented. Most of them are not making films and I was reminded how often there seems to be little correlation between talent and success.There are so many people with so much talent, original thinking and unique voices. Most of them weren't born with the ‘right cards in their hand’ and don't really have the access or ability to break into the often exclusive realms of music, art and culture. What are the chances that we will hear about them?Thru You Princess might propose some modest, momentary fix for that. It is not about stardom, but rather about the deeply human experience of being seen—an antidote to the loneliness and anonymity many can feel in a world that is constantly manufacturing new stars. But for me, above all, Kutiman, Princess and all the musicians who appear in the songs suggest a kind of Utopian path, where people from all over the world, especially those who are lacking representation and power, can share, create, express themselves, and maybe give a fight to the cruel, commercially oriented and unfair rules of the game that usually dominate in the worlds of music, art and culture today.​​