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Marta Bałaga


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

IDFA crowns Apolonia, Apolonia as its champion

IDFA crowns Apolonia, Apolonia as its champion

Lea Glob’s touching portrayal of a young artist, a movie “infused with love”, has won Best Film in the International Competition, with Angie Vinchito’s Manifesto also noticed  

21/11/2022 | IDFA 2022 | Awards

Review: Kaymak

Review: Kaymak

Social satire meets sex comedy – and a whole lot of dairy – in Milcho Manchevski’s confusing latest  

08/11/2022 | Tokyo 2022

Marjorie Bendeck • Director, Connecting Cottbus

Interview: Marjorie Bendeck • Director, Connecting Cottbus

“That’s what we want to address: how the hell do you fund arthouse films nowadays?”

The head of coco opens up about this year’s edition of the co-production market that focuses primarily on Eastern European cinema  

08/11/2022 | Cottbus 2022 | Connecting Cottbus

Review: Greater Gospel

Review: Greater Gospel

Javier Codesal’s winner of the Ji.hlava Award for Original Approach combines the spiritual with the carnal  

02/11/2022 | Jihlava 2022

Review: The Visitors

Review: The Visitors

Veronika Lišková heads to the end of the Earth, only to realise that problems – and people – are always the same  

02/11/2022 | Jihlava 2022

Review: Polaris

Review: Polaris

Leave it to Spanish director Ainara Vera to combine a strong sisterly bond and the Arctic, and for it to actually make perfect sense  

25/10/2022 | Mirage 2022

Review: Inner Lines

Review: Inner Lines

In Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd’s film, the sound of silence meets a deafening cacophony of voices  

25/10/2022 | Mirage 2022

Samppa Batal, Tuomas Kohtamäki • Director and producer of Timeman

Interview: Samppa Batal, Tuomas Kohtamäki • Director and producer of Timeman

“You are not sure if you are allowed to laugh”

Time travel’s a bitch in this melancholic Finnish production, named Best Film in the Warsaw Film Festival’s Free Spirit Competition  

24/10/2022 | Warsaw 2022

Twelve films receive production support from the Finnish Film Foundation

Twelve films receive production support from the Finnish Film Foundation

The institution’s board has granted a total of €3,352,500 to six fiction features and six documentaries; three of the films are international minority co-productions  

18/10/2022 | Production | Funding | Finland

Bettina Blümner  • Director of Vamos a la playa

Interview: Bettina Blümner • Director of Vamos a la playa

“Humour is how we cope with life, especially today”

In the German director’s awkward new movie, privilege meets good intentions, to amusing effect  

06/10/2022 | Zurich 2022

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