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Teresa Vena


460 articles available in total starting from 09/04/2018. Last article published on 02/07/2025.

Rick Ostermann  • Director of The House

Interview: Rick Ostermann • Director of The House

“This is not an alien world that one can look at from a distance”

In his thriller, the German director tells the story of a house that knows its inhabitants better than they do themselves  

17/11/2021 | Germany

Florian Hoffmann  • Director of Whispers of War

Interview: Florian Hoffmann • Director of Whispers of War

“However specific our film’s story might be, it also has a universal component to it”

The German drama film examines the effects that the ongoing conflict has had, and continues to have, on the Kurdish-Turkish diaspora  

17/11/2021 | Thessaloniki 2021

Marcus H Rosenmüller • Director of Beckenrand Sheriff

Interview: Marcus H Rosenmüller • Director of Beckenrand Sheriff

“I reserve the right to see the world as something beautiful”

The director’s new comedy serves as a manifesto for more mutual understanding  

10/11/2021 | /Germany

Nemanja Ćeranić • Director of Loan Shark

Interview: Nemanja Ćeranić • Director of Loan Shark

"The idea was that the camera should follow the actor, not the opposite"

The Serbian director makes a loan shark the protagonist of his tragicomedy, screened at this year's FilmFestival Cottbus  

09/11/2021 | Cottbus 2021

Shooting wraps for the drama Im Fallen, starring Julia Jentsch and Florian Lukas

Shooting wraps for the drama Im Fallen, starring Julia Jentsch and Florian Lukas

Swiss director Samuel Perriard's new film about a couple whose summer holiday ends in crisis is set in Italy and has been shot in the region of Apulia  

08/11/2021 | Production | Funding | Switzerland/Italy

The Gravedigger's Wife emerges triumphant at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck

The Gravedigger's Wife emerges triumphant at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck

The Finnish-French-German production by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed has been awarded the NDR Film Prize as well as the INTERFILM Church Prize  

08/11/2021 | Festivals | Awards | Germany

Brighton 4th wins big at Cottbus

Brighton 4th wins big at Cottbus

The main prizes at this year's German gathering went to Levan Koguashvili’s movie as well as 107 Mothers by Peter Kerekes and Jan Matuszyński's Leave No Traces  

08/11/2021 | Cottbus 2021 | Awards

Shooting wraps for the crime-comedy Guglhupfgeschwader

Shooting wraps for the crime-comedy Guglhupfgeschwader

Ed Herzog is directing a new feature set in Bavaria, based on the crime novels of Rita Falk and starring Sebastian Bezzel as a village policeman  

05/11/2021 | Production | Funding | Germany

Susanne Kasimir and Thomas Hailer • Administrative director and artistic director, Nordic Film Days Lübeck

Interview: Susanne Kasimir and Thomas Hailer • Administrative director and artistic director, Nordic Film Days Lübeck

“A lot of big careers started here in Lübeck, and it feels great to be celebrating with everyone again”

We talked to some of the team behind the Nordic Film Days Lübeck, as genre films and movies set abroad are due to dominate the programme of this year's edition  

03/11/2021 | /Germany

Murina wins the Grand Prix at CinÉast

Murina wins the Grand Prix at CinÉast

Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović's coming-of-age tale, which won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes, was awarded the main prize in Luxembourg after a 17-day festival  

25/10/2021 | CinÉast 2021 | Awards

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