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Marta Balaga


1097 articles available in total starting from 07/04/2017. Last article published on 26/05/2025.

Hrönn Kristinsdóttir, Carolina Salas  • Artistic director and managing director, Stockfish Film Festival

Interview: Hrönn Kristinsdóttir, Carolina Salas • Artistic director and managing director, Stockfish Film Festival

“There is something new happening, so come and take part in it”

The Icelandic festival’s new duo of directors want to attract both audiences and industry professionals to the Reykjavík-based gathering  

29/03/2023 | Stockfish 2023

Petri Luukkainen, Jesse Jokinen  • Directors of The Gamer

Interview: Petri Luukkainen, Jesse Jokinen • Directors of The Gamer

“Gamers have to struggle with stress even more than football players”

The directorial duo break down their documentary on a Finnish gamer working his way to the top, who gets help from a top e-sports psychologist  

28/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023

The Finnish Film Foundation grants production support to a variety of new projects

The Finnish Film Foundation grants production support to a variety of new projects

War, a tango festival and love for the forest are among the topics tackled by the films that have been granted a total of €6.3 million in production aid  

27/03/2023 | Production | Funding | Finland

Girl Picture and Hatching scoop Jussis as Finland celebrates local films

Girl Picture and Hatching scoop Jussis as Finland celebrates local films

Female filmmakers – and karaoke – clearly triumphed at the ceremony held to dish out the “Finnish Oscars”  

27/03/2023 | Festivals | Awards | Finland

Sami van Ingen, Mika Taanila  • Directors of Monica in the South Seas

Interview: Sami van Ingen, Mika Taanila • Directors of Monica in the South Seas

“We took this big pile of material and ‘massaged’ a film out of it”

The directorial duo combine two films and two stories, following a woman attempting to return to a past that never was  

22/03/2023 | /Finland

Juha Suonpää  • Director of Lynx Man

Interview: Juha Suonpää • Director of Lynx Man

“It’s a political statement to be crazy”

Who said that one man’s love for the lynx can’t save the world? The director’s protagonist, Hannu, is clearly trying to do so  

20/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023

Thierno Souleymane Diallo  • Director of The Cemetery of Cinema

Interview: Thierno Souleymane Diallo • Director of The Cemetery of Cinema

“As people say, a tree without roots cannot grow; films are also parts of these roots”

The Guinean filmmaker is determined to find a lost movie, 1953’s Mouramani - or maybe even his own childhood  

16/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023

Ole Giæver • Director of Let the River Flow

Interview: Ole Giæver • Director of Let the River Flow

“I’ve also had my Sámi awakening”

The Norwegian director opens up about the fight surrounding the construction of the Alta Dam, and telling stories from a Sámi perspective  

16/03/2023 | /Norway/Finland

Review: A Greyhound of a Girl

Review: A Greyhound of a Girl

BERLINALE 2023: Enzo d’Alò’s animation is bound to find its audience – but not at film festivals  

27/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Generation

Review: The Cemetery of Cinema

Review: The Cemetery of Cinema

BERLINALE 2023: In this surprisingly complex doc, Thierno Souleymane Diallo goes off in search of a lost movie. Shoeless  

27/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Panorama

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