Zift is one of five films to screen at SXSW this year which is being promoted as a simultaneous premiere at the festival and on Video on Demand via IFC (like all of its fellows in the series except for Joe Swanberg’s Alexander the Last, it comes to Austin and your living room after an extensive festival run; two of the films in the series, Paper Covers Rock and Medicine for Melancholy, screened at SXSW last year). We talked to Zift director Javor Gardev talked about meeting Americans in Argentina, offered the only fast and loose plot synopsis I’ve ever seen to invoke both Casablanca and Georges Bataille, and declared himself “the king of the blurb.” We can’t argue there. The Zift trailer, and his further answers to The 5 Questions We Ask Everyone, after the jump.

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