Veteran American filmmaker Charlie Kaufman appeared at the Sands Film Festival in St Andrews, Scotland, for an onstage Q&A discussing the relationship between poetry and cinema. The QQA, chaired by Kaufman's longtime collaborator, Eva H. D., included a screening of Kaufman and Eva's 2025 short film, How To Shoot A Ghost, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival. Kaufman discussed his unique creative practice, including avoiding "suffocating" forms of filmmaking that impose a particular way of seeing on audiences. He also mentioned his admiration for Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr and his desire to stay away from traditional American film production systems. Kaufman's last project was an adaptation of Jessie Buckley's novel, The Things of Iain Reid, which will debut on Netflix in 2020.