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Marta Bałaga


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

Review: Judges Under Pressure

Review: Judges Under Pressure

Kacper Lisowski’s angry look at Poland’s judicial crisis occasionally mumbles, but certainly doesn’t hold back  

21/12/2021 | Films | Reviews | Poland

Kacper Lisowski  • Director of Judges Under Pressure

Interview: Kacper Lisowski • Director of Judges Under Pressure

“I had to stay close to those faces”

In his documentary, the Polish director shows people who, despite their government’s recent actions, refuse to be “muzzled”  

21/12/2021 | /Poland

Matthias Hartmann • Creator of The Net

Interview: Matthias Hartmann • Creator of The Net

“We don’t want to spoil the game for the fans; we are just going to open the curtain a bit”

We talked to the creator of the global event series, setting out to expose football’s darkest secrets  

06/12/2021 | /Austria/UK/Germany/Italy

Review: Babi Yar. Context

Review: Babi Yar. Context

There are no words to describe the massacre that took place in 1941 just outside Kiev, and Sergei Loznitsa is not even trying to find them  

02/12/2021 | IDFA 2021

“Change is inevitable; it’s just annoying that it takes so long,” say critics at IDFA’s Representation and Diversity in Film Criticism panel

“Change is inevitable; it’s just annoying that it takes so long,” say critics at IDFA’s Representation and Diversity in Film Criticism panel

Writers opened up about representation and the realities of their profession during a panel at the Dutch festival  

02/12/2021 | IDFA 2021 | IDFA for Professionals

Review: O, Collecting Eggs Despite the Times

Review: O, Collecting Eggs Despite the Times

Pim Zwier’s Best Directing Award winner in the Envision Competition is one of IDFA’s oddest films, and also one of its best  

30/11/2021 | IDFA 2021

Malachi Smyth • Director of The Score

Interview: Malachi Smyth • Director of The Score

“I like these small moments in time when lives are changed forever”

We talked to the director of this British musical set in a roadside café, which features music by Johnny Flynn  

30/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | First Feature Competition

Review: A Place Called Dignity

Review: A Place Called Dignity

Matías Rojas Valencia goes straight to hell in his Tallinn official competition entry based on a terrifying true story that one would hope was completely made up  

30/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Review: Sandra Gets a Job

Review: Sandra Gets a Job

Part workplace satire, part stiff oddity, Kaupo Kruusiauk’s film won’t be getting a promotion any time soon  

29/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Baltic Film Competition

Review: Mr. Landsbergis

Review: Mr. Landsbergis

In his latest, Sergei Loznitsa answers FAQs about Lithuania's break from the Soviet Union, over the course of four bloody hours  

29/11/2021 | IDFA 2021

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