It has been two decades since his charming feature debut Waking Ned Devine became an international surprise success. Since then, Kirk Jones has only directed a handful of films, the last one about ten years ago. But I Swear was worth the wait. With empathy and eccentric humor, the biopic of Scottish Tourette activist John Davidson shows his difficult youth with the illness. Back in the '80s where the story is set, Tourette's was little known and even less understood. That this has changed is also thanks to Davidson, with whom the director worked closely. When presenting his film in Berlin, Jones found time for an interview with Lidanoir about taking financial risks to realize his project, helping to create Robert Aramayo's BAFTA-winning