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Marta Bałaga


1112 articles available in total starting from 07/04/2017. Last article published on 08/09/2025.

Jenni Luhta, Lauri Luhta • Directors of Moses

Interview: Jenni Luhta, Lauri Luhta • Directors of Moses

“Freud is not the most empathetic person in the world, but you do develop some empathy for him later on”

We got the low-down on this experimental film helmed by the directorial duo, in which Sigmund Freud meets Moses  

05/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Damien Hauser • Director of After the Long Rains

Interview: Damien Hauser • Director of After the Long Rains

“My movies are better when I don’t have a lot of control”

The Swiss-Kenyan director unpicks his third feature, in which the characters have to be practical about their dreams  

02/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Harbour

Emilija Gašić • Director of 78 Days

Interview: Emilija Gašić • Director of 78 Days

“I appreciate it when films are watchable – when I want to revisit them and they don’t break my heart too much”

The Serbian director takes a trip back to 1999, but the question is: what’s reality and what’s fiction?  

30/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Bright Future

Julia De Simone • Director of Formosa Beach

Interview: Julia De Simone • Director of Formosa Beach

“This film really came from the heart”

The past is the present – and vice versa – in the second part of the Brazilian director’s trilogy  

30/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Benjamin Ree • Director of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Interview: Benjamin Ree • Director of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

“I wanted people to know the gaming world can be inclusive”

The Norwegian director enters the virtual world and finds real emotions there  

25/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Johan Grimonprez • Director of Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Interview: Johan Grimonprez • Director of Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

“I used to be fascinated by Khrushchev’s shoe-banging incident, yet I never realised it had to do with the politics of my own country”

In the Belgian director’s new documentary, music meets politics – and the results are explosive  

23/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Raha Amirfazli, Alireza Ghasemi • Directors of In the Land of Brothers

Interview: Raha Amirfazli, Alireza Ghasemi • Directors of In the Land of Brothers

“This film will be controversial, and we don’t have a problem with it”

The duo of Iranian filmmakers show that something is rotten in their home country via a story about the lives of three Aghan refugees  

22/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Magnus Martens  • Director of There’s Something in the Barn

Interview: Magnus Martens • Director of There’s Something in the Barn

“We thought: ‘Let’s make a fucked-up tourist guide to Norway’”

Get ready for a different kind of Christmas movie as the Norwegian director puts his own spin on awkward culture clashes and barn elves on the verge of a breakdown  

05/12/2023 | /Norway

CHRZU  • Director of Carlotta Moore and Me

Interview: CHRZU • Director of Carlotta Moore and Me

“This is a post-truth shockumentary; it’s real if you want to believe that it’s real”

Carlotta Moore, “the biggest movie star you weren’t aware of before”, finally gets her own film thanks to the Finnish director  

22/11/2023 | /Finland

Laszló Csaki • Director of Pelikan Blue

Interview: Laszló Csaki • Director of Pelikan Blue

“Directors should only make films about the things they know”

The Hungarian director immortalises a train-ticket scam in this animation for adults, the first-ever animated flick to be shown in Critics’ Picks  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

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