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Marta Balaga


1112 articles available in total starting from 07/04/2017. Last article published on 08/09/2025.

Guillermo Galoe • Director of Sleepless City

Interview: Guillermo Galoe • Director of Sleepless City

“In La Cañada, I felt a profound wound in people”

CANNES 2025: The Spanish director gives us the low-down on his film, shot in a slum on the outskirts of Madrid, in which a teenager stares out at a broken world  

21/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Dominik Moll • Director of Case 137

Interview: Dominik Moll • Director of Case 137

“Can films change something, or do they only appeal to those who agree with what’s being shown?”

CANNES 2025: The French director takes on the Yellow Vest movement and the police brutality that ensued, and asks some uncomfortable questions  

20/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Review: Alpha

Review: Alpha

CANNES 2025: Titane’s Julia Ducournau returns with an exhausting, weird AIDS parable that’s somehow not weird enough  

20/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Review: A Magnificent Life

Review: A Magnificent Life

CANNES 2025: Sylvain Chomet celebrates and reintroduces French institution Marcel Pagnol in his animated biopic, which, while not explicit, is definitely a film for adults  

18/05 | Cannes 2025 | Special Screenings

Julia Kowalski • Director of Her Will Be Done

Interview: Julia Kowalski • Director of Her Will Be Done

“This is a witch film”

CANNES 2025: The French director talks to us about the dark magic in her film, religion and her Polish roots  

16/05 | Cannes 2025 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Dalloway

Review: Dalloway

CANNES 2025: Yann Gozlan’s AI thriller might have just ruined the very idea of the artist’s residency  

16/05 | Cannes 2025 | Midnight Screenings

Review: Case 137

Review: Case 137

CANNES 2025: Dominik Moll takes on France’s dirty secrets – and its famed “almost revolution” – ending up with something uncomfortably universal  

16/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Viljar Bøe • Director of Above the Knee

Interview: Viljar Bøe • Director of Above the Knee

“I’ve always been drawn to stories about obsession”

The independent Norwegian director strikes a balance between absurdity, humour and unease in his latest feature  

08/05 | HOFF 2025

The Shadow and U Are the Universe win at Estonia’s Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival

The Shadow and U Are the Universe win at Estonia’s Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival

Jaak Kilmi’s period thriller and Pavlo Ostrikov’s sci-fi triumph at the festival’s 20th anniversary edition  

05/05 | HOFF 2025

Review: King Matt the First

Review: King Matt the First

Polish director Jaśmina Wójcik whisks us away to a secret garden and demonstrates how a creative adaptation should be done  

30/04 | Hot Docs 2025

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