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Marta Balaga


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

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

The upcoming Fantasia International Film Festival treats its audience to myriad world premieres

The upcoming Fantasia International Film Festival treats its audience to myriad world premieres

European flicks The Elderly, Megalomaniac and Orchestrator of Storms will celebrate their world premieres at the Canadian genre festival  

13/07/2022 | Fantasia 2022

Christos Passalis • Director of Silence 6-9

Interview: Christos Passalis • Director of Silence 6-9

“Understanding is overrated”

We talked to the Greek actor about his directorial debut, in which he stars alongside Angeliki Papoulia  

12/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Review: Borders of Love

Review: Borders of Love

Things get messy in Tomasz Wiński’s Crystal Globe Competition entry, about a couple who want more and somehow end up with less  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

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