In this vivid and personal interview, Icelandic animation director Sara Gunnarsdóttir reflects on her unexpected path into animation, discovering the medium only in her twenties after encountering experimental works that broke open her understanding of what animation could be. She shares how a background in fine art, filmmaking crew work and experimental animation shaped her voice – a voice rooted in emotional honesty, live-action influence, rotoscoping and the search for authenticity in movement and storytelling.

Sara speaks candidly about creative risk-taking, artistic burnout, independent production, collaboration, and the extraordinary journey behind My Year of Dicks, culminating in its Oscar nomination. This is an intimate portrait of an artist redefining the boundaries of contemporary animation.