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Mariana Hristova


271 articles available in total starting from 10/09/2009. Last article published on 10/09/2025.

Transilvania Pitch Stop announces this year's selection

Transilvania Pitch Stop announces this year's selection

The 12th edition of the co-production platform will once again showcase 10 regional projects seeking international collaboration and financing  

09/05 | Transilvania 2025 | TIFF Industry

Carla Fotea • Producer, microFILM

Interview: Carla Fotea • Producer, microFILM

“I sense an increasing fear of censorship in this context of rising extremism”

The Romanian producer elaborated on the challenges of financing and producing in Eastern European territories, and also revealed details of her current projects  

09/05 | Producers on the Move 2025

Review: My Magical World

Review: My Magical World

Elvin Adigozel’s feature begins as a would-be story of triumphant success but unfolds as a domestic tragedy, portraying life in the bleak Azerbaijani countryside  

02/05 | goEast 2025

Holy Electricity comes out on top at goEast

Holy Electricity comes out on top at goEast

Tato Kotetishvili’s urban portrait has won the Golden Lily at the Wiesbaden-based festival, while standout works from Estonia, Poland, Uzbekistan and beyond were also recognised  

30/04 | goEast 2025 | Awards

Želimir Žilnik • Director of Eighty Plus

Interview: Želimir Žilnik • Director of Eighty Plus

“I want to show people with dignity – neither victims nor heroes, just human beings trying to live with integrity”

The Serbian director discusses his deep suspicion of ideologies in relation to his irresistibly charming latest feature, which follows a man whose life spans three political systems  

28/04 | goEast 2025

Kristijonas Vildžiūnas wraps the shoot for his sixth feature, Dice-ching-o-mat

Kristijonas Vildžiūnas wraps the shoot for his sixth feature, Dice-ching-o-mat

The Lithuanian director’s next film promises to be an existential fantasy drama, described in a short and pithy logline as about a "solitary star seeking a constellation"  

08/04 | Production | Funding | Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia

Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon • Director of Epilogues

Interview: Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon • Director of Epilogues

“I wanted the character to disappear into the fog at the end because in the fog, anything can happen”

The Icelandic filmmaker reveals more about his personal connection to his second feature, the challenges of undertaking such a risky project, and his close bond with the actors  

28/03 | Vilnius 2025

Review: Epilogues

Review: Epilogues

Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon’s slow-paced fiction feature explores ultimate solitude and the liminal space between active life and the threshold of death  

27/03 | Vilnius 2025

Eugen Jebeleanu • Director of Internal Zero

Interview: Eugen Jebeleanu • Director of Internal Zero

“I wanted to explore being vulnerable as an actor, director and viewer”

The filmmaker offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on his second feature, which explores the precariousness of professional and personal life for thirty-something Romanians  

25/03 | Vilnius 2025

Review: Cat’s Cry

Review: Cat’s Cry

Based on true events and Goran Paskaljević’s unfinished script, Sanja Živković’s second feature tells the story of a child’s abandonment and her grandfather’s struggle to keep her in the family  

20/03 | Sofia 2025

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