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Marta Bałaga


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

Anna Eriksson • Director of W

Interview: Anna Eriksson • Director of W

"I was looking for truthful pain"

The Finnish artist follows her 2018 Marilyn Monroe dark dream M with W, continuing to disturb  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Out of Competition

Carlos Conceição • Director of Tommy Guns

Interview: Carlos Conceição • Director of Tommy Guns

“It’s all about breaking down walls and old ideas”

The Angola-born Portuguese director isn’t writing off the past just yet  

12/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Human Flowers of Flesh

Review: Human Flowers of Flesh

Helena Wittmann quotes Beau Travail in her latest feature, the slowest example of slow cinema in recent memory  

11/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Tommy Guns

Review: Tommy Guns

The past turns into the present and the present into the past in Carlos Conceição's interesting take on one country’s troubled legacy  

08/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Paradise Highway

Review: Paradise Highway

Juliette Binoche fully commits, obviously, to her role as a Canadian trucker in Anna Gutto's debut feature, but the whole thing feels a bit off  

08/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Piazza Grande

Review: A Life on the Farm

Review: A Life on the Farm

Cat funerals and skeletons on tractors abound in Oscar Harding's tender yet troubling documentary  

01/08/2022 | Fantasia 2022

Review: The Elderly

Review: The Elderly

In the sweat-stained horror by Spanish filmmakers Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez, the temperature is rising and so is the tension  

01/08/2022 | Fantasia 2022

Raúl Cerezo, Fernando González Gómez, Javier Trigales and Rubén Sánchez Trigos • Directors and writers of The Elderly

Interview: Raúl Cerezo, Fernando González Gómez, Javier Trigales and Rubén Sánchez Trigos • Directors and writers of The Elderly

“We liked the theme of older people rebelling against the society that is putting them down”

The directors and the writers of this twisted new feature, in which older people are done being ignored, talk about it  

20/07/2022 | Fantasia 2022

Mariam Khatchvani • Founder and artistic director, Svaneti International Film Festival

Interview: Mariam Khatchvani • Founder and artistic director, Svaneti International Film Festival

“When I am in Svaneti, I always come up with good ideas”

The filmmaker talks to us about the future of the festival she created  

18/07/2022 | /Georgia

Beata Parkanová • Director of The Word

Interview: Beata Parkanová • Director of The Word

“We often forget what we thought but never what we felt”

The Czech director, whose film won two awards at Karlovy Vary, turns back time and gets inspired by the story of her own family  

14/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

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