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Marta Bałaga


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

Robin Petré • Director of Only on Earth

Interview: Robin Petré • Director of Only on Earth

“I couldn’t have predicted the urgency of this film”

BERLINALE 2025: With her new documentary feature, the Danish-Swedish director proves that beauty and destruction go hand in hand  

15/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Generation

Brendan Canty • Director of Christy

Interview: Brendan Canty • Director of Christy

“It’s a film about a community”

BERLINALE 2025: The Irish director unpicks his tender drama film about a teenage boy who has to exchange a suburban foster home for a much less comfortable residence  

15/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Generation

Vasilis Kekatos • Director of Our Wildest Days

Interview: Vasilis Kekatos • Director of Our Wildest Days

“It’s a sad world, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be beautiful”

BERLINALE 2025: The Greek director breaks down his film, which he describes as both happy and sad, and which says a lot about his devasted home country  

13/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Generation

Wilhelm Sasnal • Director of The Assistant

Interview: Wilhelm Sasnal • Director of The Assistant

“Robert Walser wrote about the uncertainty of tomorrow, about dependence on the employer – it’s very modern”

One of Poland’s most successful artists has put a modern spin on a 1908 novel in a new film that he co-directed with Anka Sasnal  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Albert Oehlen • Director of Bad Painter

Interview: Albert Oehlen • Director of Bad Painter

“I can make fun of myself”

The German painter talks us through his film, in which he takes a jab at the art world – and himself  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

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

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