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Marta Bałaga


1097 articles available in total starting from 07/04/2017. Last article published on 26/05/2025.

Sandro Aguilar • Director of First Person Plural

Interview: Sandro Aguilar • Director of First Person Plural

“I haven’t allowed myself to embrace humour before”

The Portuguese director discusses his new film, which proves that wedding anniversaries can be quite a trip  

06/02 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Tim Ellrich • Director of In My Parents’ House

Interview: Tim Ellrich • Director of In My Parents’ House

“It’s important to show things we’re all afraid of”

We sat down with the German director to delve into his story of a therapist who’s forced to balance the demands of her professional life with those of her ageing parents and older brother  

05/02 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Laura Casabé • Director of The Virgin of the Quarry Lake

Interview: Laura Casabé • Director of The Virgin of the Quarry Lake

“I wanted to show my own modern pop witches”

In her new film, the Argentinian director compels you to believe that women have special powers  

03/02 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Ignas Miškinis • Director of The Southern Chronicles

Interview: Ignas Miškinis • Director of The Southern Chronicles

“Lithuanian cinema has liberated itself, and become braver and younger”

We talked to Black Nights’ Baltic Film Competition winner about his film following one young man’s dreams of sporting glory and his first loves in the 1990s  

02/12/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Baltic Film Competition

Virpi Suutari • Director of Once Upon a Time in a Forest

Interview: Virpi Suutari • Director of Once Upon a Time in a Forest

“The company of these young radicals made me remember how essential it is to stay curious”

The director tells us more about her film that proves that people still need to fight for the environment everywhere – even in Finland  

26/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Luigi Cozzi • Director

Interview: Luigi Cozzi • Director

“Time is the only way of judging whether a movie is good, bad or useless”

The Italian director, who is being celebrated at Finland’s Night Visions, talks about Dario Argento, sci-fi and his very own little shop of horrors  

15/11/2024 | /Italy

Marek Šulík • Director of Ms. President

Interview: Marek Šulík • Director of Ms. President

“People can hate women in power because they’ve been told to hate them”

We talked to the Slovak filmmaker, whose documentary has already triumphed in Ji.hlava, about the challenges of filming the former leader of his country  

14/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Doc@PÖFF

Review: The Impossibility

Review: The Impossibility

Halloween might be over, but Tomáš Hlaváček's Ji.hlava winner takes its audience straight to the house of horrors  

12/11/2024 | Jihlava 2024

Eight films receive production support from the Finnish Film Foundation

Eight films receive production support from the Finnish Film Foundation

The funding body has given out a total of €704,000 in support to the new projects by Tonislav Hristov, Teemu Nikki and more  

22/10/2024 | Production | Funding | Finland

Review: Peaches Goes Bananas

Review: Peaches Goes Bananas

VENICE 2024: In this little documentary by Marie Losier, singer and performer Peaches continues to celebrate the body, including her own  

11/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

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