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Teresa Vena


460 articles available in total starting from 09/04/2018. Last article published on 02/07/2025.

Bianca Lucas • Director of Love Dog

Interview: Bianca Lucas • Director of Love Dog

"I think everything you see is an extreme version of a person that exists in all of us"

In her first feature film, the Polish director tries to give a realistic insight into the grieving process  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Cineasti del presente

Nikolaus Geyrhalter • Director of Matter Out of Place

Interview: Nikolaus Geyrhalter • Director of Matter Out of Place

"Everything we produce or use ends up to be trash at some point"

The Austrian documentary maker gives a multi-perspective view of the global handling of trash  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Delphine Lehericey • Director of Last Dance

Interview: Delphine Lehericey • Director of Last Dance

"Between La Ribot and me it was love at first sight on the professional level, we were like work sisters"

The Swiss-born, Belgium-based filmmaker discusses how the worlds of contemporary dance and cinema merge perfectly in her love story  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Piazza Grande

Julie Lerat-Gersant • Director of Little Ones

Interview: Julie Lerat-Gersant • Director of Little Ones

“The actresses were distracted from their own acting and this made everything feel much more authentic and natural”

The French director discusses her film, in which a teenager needs to find the way to break free from her mother in order to decide about the fate of the child she is pregnant with  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Cineasti del presente

The European Film Academy hosts the second Young Audience Summit

The European Film Academy hosts the second Young Audience Summit

Young people and film lovers from 20 different countries participated in a hybrid event and discussed important issues such as diversity, gender representation and racism in film  

18/07/2022 | Education | Europe

Anika Decker • Director of Love Thing

Interview: Anika Decker • Director of Love Thing

“Without culture, a country is worth nothing”

The German director tells us more about her film, in which Elyas M'Barek plays a successful actor who has a secret from his past that threatens his career  

15/07/2022 | /Germany

Katharina Woll • Director of Everybody Wants to Be Loved

Interview: Katharina Woll • Director of Everybody Wants to Be Loved

“We sometimes say that we absolutely don't want to become like our parents – but often, that’s exactly how it goes”

In the German director’s first feature, Anne Ratte-Poll plays a psychotherapist in dire need of someone to listen to her and her needs  

13/07/2022 | Filmfest München 2022

The Ordinaries wins the German Cinema New Talent Award for Best Director at Filmfest München

The Ordinaries wins the German Cinema New Talent Award for Best Director at Filmfest München

As every year, the festival has bestowed a series of awards upon new talents from the young generation of German filmmakers, as well as several other prizes across different categories  

11/07/2022 | Filmfest München 2022 | Awards

Natja Brunckhorst • Director of Mostly Minimalistic

Interview: Natja Brunckhorst • Director of Mostly Minimalistic

“I didn't want to do a typical German film; I was looking to make a French film with English humour, as I would put it”

The directorial debut by the German actress, producer and scriptwriter focuses on objects and how they can make us feel good as well as bad  

01/07/2022 | /Germany

Christian Beetz producing Reeperbahn Special Unit 65

Christian Beetz producing Reeperbahn Special Unit 65

The prime-time documentary series about the famous red-light district in Hamburg uses the police’s perspective to depict organised crime in Germany in the 1980s  

29/06/2022 | Production | Funding | Germany

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