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Marta Bałaga


1100 articles available in total starting from 07/04/2017. Last article published on 19/06/2025.

Goran Stolevski, Alina Serban • Director of and actress in Housekeeping for Beginners

Interview: Goran Stolevski, Alina Serban • Director of and actress in Housekeeping for Beginners

“In order to have a meaningful representation, we needed to allow our characters to act like arseholes”

VENICE 2023: The Macedonian-Australian director reunites with one of his actresses to break down a movie in which so many dramatic things happen, yet which leaves you with a sense of joy  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Moin Hussain • Director of Sky Peals

Interview: Moin Hussain • Director of Sky Peals

“I thought of it as a road movie where nobody really goes anywhere”

VENICE 2023: The London-based writer-director opens up about combining the mundane and the fantastical  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | International Film Critics’ Week

Fien Troch • Director of Holly

Interview: Fien Troch • Director of Holly

“My strength has to do with making people wonder what’s real and what’s not”

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director keeps viewers guessing in her new film, about a shy girl who may or may not have mysterious powers  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Pietro Castellitto  • Director of Enea

Interview: Pietro Castellitto • Director of Enea

“Life has more than one genre”

VENICE 2023: The Italian actor-director introduces us to a man who just wants to feel alive, in his “gangster movie without the gangster parts”  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Housekeeping for Beginners

Review: Housekeeping for Beginners

VENICE 2023: There’s always time to laugh, cry and sing along in Goran Stolevski’s latest, one of the best films on the Lido this year  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Anna Buryachkova  • Director of Forever-Forever

Interview: Anna Buryachkova • Director of Forever-Forever

“I was looking for magic”

VENICE 2023: The kids are not alright in the Ukrainian director’s movie, but at least they keep on fighting  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti Extra

Review: Priscilla

Review: Priscilla

VENICE 2023: Sofia Coppola takes Marie Antoinette to Graceland, but once again, it’s hard to care  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Olmo Schnabel  • Director of Pet Shop Days

Interview: Olmo Schnabel • Director of Pet Shop Days

“People can agree or disagree, love it or hate it. I just want them to react”

VENICE 2023: The debuting director has crafted a film that’s constantly moving, following two guys who have everything and yet have nothing  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti Extra

Timm Kröger  • Director of The Universal Theory

Interview: Timm Kröger • Director of The Universal Theory

“I dream in the way classic cinema has taught us to”

VENICE 2023: Instead of actually delivering the titular theory of everything, the German director opts for mystery  

03/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Luna Carmoon • Director of Hoard

Interview: Luna Carmoon • Director of Hoard

“The door is always ajar when it comes to memories and grief”

VENICE 2023: The debuting director proves there is no escaping the past, so we might as well just learn to accept it  

01/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | International Film Critics’ Week

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