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Ola Salwa


343 articles available in total starting from 21/03/2017. Last article published on 23/07/2025.

Christine Haroutounian • Director of After Dreaming

Interview: Christine Haroutounian • Director of After Dreaming

“The question of what constitutes the self is at the root of everything I make”

The director and artist of Armenian roots breaks down the origins of her film and explains how her powerful images and concepts came into being  

23/07 | Golden Apricot 2025

Fiume o morte! emerges triumphant at the 22nd Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Fiume o morte! emerges triumphant at the 22nd Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Holy Electricity and Songs of Slow Burning Earth were also victorious at the Armenia-based film event  

23/07 | Golden Apricot 2025 | Awards

Varvara Hovhannisyan • Head of International Department, Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Interview: Varvara Hovhannisyan • Head of International Department, Golden Apricot International Film Festival

“For several years, our main goal has been to make the festival a platform for regional cinema – and we’re getting there”

Our discussion with the International Department head focused on the Armenian festival’s objectives, and how it has stimulated film production in the country and the region  

18/07 | Golden Apricot 2025

Review: Loss of Balance

Review: Loss of Balance

Korek Bojanowski’s debut feature is a shrewd study of manipulation and abuse of power in the most vulnerable of spaces – the acting school  

04/07 | Films | Reviews | Poland

BNP Paribas New Horizons gears up for its 25th edition

BNP Paribas New Horizons gears up for its 25th edition

The jubilee edition of the Wrocław-based event will offer 272 films, including 129 Polish premieres; the Cannes-awarded The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho opens proceedings  

03/07 | New Horizons 2025

Weronika Mliczewska • Director of Child of Dust

Interview: Weronika Mliczewska • Director of Child of Dust

“I knew that the journey with Sang would take us somewhere deep and universal”

The Polish director unpicks her first documentary feature, about a man whose father was a US soldier during the Vietnam War and whose mother was Vietnamese  

10/06 | Krakow 2025

Vicky Krieps added to the cast of Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert's The Idiots

Vicky Krieps added to the cast of Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert's The Idiots

The film, said to be an anti-imperialistic black comedy, will also star Aimee Lou Wood, Johnny Flynn, Christian Friedel, Barbara Marten and Rainer Bock, and will be shot entirely in Poland  

26/05 | Production | Funding | France/USA/UK

Review: The Guest

Review: The Guest

Zuzanna Solakiewicz and Zvika Gregory Portnoy’s film, co-directed by Michał Bielawski, is a subtle and tender study of human connection  

23/05 | Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2025

Asif Kapadia • Director of 2073

Interview: Asif Kapadia • Director of 2073

“I'm an optimist – but I also see what's going on, so I’d say I’m very much a realist, too”

The British filmmaker discusses his latest, dystopian hybrid movie that mixes the fictionalised diary of a ghost with real-life footage from Gaza, India, China, the USA and the UK  

14/05 | Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2025

Aga Wasiak • Producer, Lava Films

Interview: Aga Wasiak • Producer, Lava Films

“I like to be a very hands-on producer – it makes me happy”

The Polish producer discusses her approach to her craft and breaks down her career so far  

13/05 | Producers on the Move 2025

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