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Teresa Vena


461 articles available in total starting from 09/04/2018. Last article published on 12/09/2025.

The 7th edition of the Berlin Critics’ Week offered to look at cinema differently

The 7th edition of the Berlin Critics’ Week offered to look at cinema differently

The German film critics association, which is at the origin of the event funded in 2015, organised this year an online edition including a film selection, conferences and debates  

08/03/2021 | Festivals | Awards | Germany

Fred Baillif  • Director of The Fam

Interview: Fred Baillif • Director of The Fam

“What I want to say is: stop closing your eyes!”

BERLINALE 2021: We met with the Swiss director about his new film, which explores the world of teenagers and social workers  

04/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Generation

Chris Wright and Stefan Kolbe  • Directors of Anamnesis

Interview: Chris Wright and Stefan Kolbe • Directors of Anamnesis

“The story will never be finished”

BERLINALE 2021: The new documentary from the two German directors questions the nature of documentary filmmaking itself  

04/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Forum

Ferit Karahan  • Director of Brother's Keeper

Interview: Ferit Karahan • Director of Brother's Keeper

“I think being better treated as children would help people to rise and be successful”

BERLINALE 2021: We talked to the Turkish director about his social drama with tragicomic elements, based on his own experience in a boarding school for boys  

04/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Panorama

Andreas Fontana  • Director of Azor

Interview: Andreas Fontana • Director of Azor

“It was important to be meticulous with the details because they have a political meaning”

BERLINALE 2021: We talked to the Swiss director about his mystery-drama feature, inspired by real historical events that shook Argentina in the 1980s  

04/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Encounters

Alice Diop  • Director of We

Interview: Alice Diop • Director of We

“I want to show that societies are changing constantly, just like the collective ‘we’”

BERLINALE 2021: In her new documentary, shown in the Encounters section, the French filmmaker once again investigates the French banlieue and its inhabitants  

02/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Encounters

Anne Zohra Berrached  • Director of Copilot

Interview: Anne Zohra Berrached • Director of Copilot

“For me, it's a film about love”

BERLINALE 2021: We talked to the German director about her film, which tells the story of one of the terrorists involved in 9/11  

02/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Panorama

Susana Nobre  • Director of Jack's Ride

Interview: Susana Nobre • Director of Jack's Ride

"The static camera corresponds best to the way I think of the images and the sequences"

BERLINALE 2021: The Portuguese director presented her documentary with fictional elements in this year's Forum section  

01/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Forum

Bogdan Theodor Olteanu • Director of Mia Misses Her Revenge

Interview: Bogdan Theodor Olteanu • Director of Mia Misses Her Revenge

“The characters and the plots are a collage of various situations I witnessed or heard about around me”

We talked to the Romanian director about his low-budget tragicomedy, which screened at this year's online edition of Slamdance  

26/02/2021 | Slamdance 2021

The Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein grants €2 million in production funding

The Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein grants €2 million in production funding

Rheingold by Fatih Akin and 1000 Zeilen by Michael Bully Herbig are to receive funding from the FFHSH high-end committee  

24/02/2021 | Production | Funding | Germany

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