The fire is not the symbol.

When I saw the burning forests in Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Greece, or now in Canada,

and you can see what we are doing with our world.

For this young people, they know that there are not so many summers left.

This is something which is not simple. This is the reality.

And the young people like my children, they think so many summers and summer stories and love stories are not left for us. Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, a group of young friends vacation in a house by the baltic seat as an encroaching forest fire

threatens the group and director christian petzold's drama a fire which was screened as part of the dGA's

global cinema series as the days grow hotter and the fire nears, both

temperature and tensions rise, allowing emotions of happiness, lust, and love to give way

to jealousies, resentments, and tensions among the group. In addition to a fire,

Petzold's other directorial credits include the feature films Barbara, Transit, Phoenix, The State I Am In, and Dean, and Wolfsburg.

Following the global cinema series screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York, Petzold spoke with director Michael Amarada about filming a fire.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Thank you very much.

I'm a little bit dizzy because I came from Berlin yesterday evening and I wake up at 2 o'clock in the morning in the hotel and I walk through the floors of the hotel like a hotel ghost.

And then I fall asleep at 7 o'clock in the morning again and so I'm a little bit dizzy but to be dizzy has something to do with cinema because I'm always dizzy when I'm part of the audience in cinema because I'm my body is there and my mind is somewhere else.

It's also a little bit like my constitution now.

So this is a very nice cinema, I must say,

but it's very cold and the air condition kills me,

but the atmosphere is warm. Thank you very much.

I'm glad to be here.

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