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Marta Bałaga


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

Piotr Ryczko  • Director of I Am REN

Interview: Piotr Ryczko • Director of I Am REN

“I wanted to stick to the truth and talk about a woman who suffered”

We talked to Piotr Ryczko, the debuting director of I Am REN, which is about to hit Polish theatres and VoD as coronavirus restrictions ease up  

03/06/2020 | /Poland

Review: The Happiest Man on Earth

Review: The Happiest Man on Earth

Just like Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker before him, in his new documentary Joonas Berghäll starts to wonder what it takes to be a man  

31/05/2020 | Krakow 2020

Timo Malmi and Milja Mikkola  • Artistic director and programme manager, Midnight Sun Film Festival

Interview: Timo Malmi and Milja Mikkola • Artistic director and programme manager, Midnight Sun Film Festival

“We want to create a community, just like the one we know from our festival”

We talked to Timo Malmi and Milja Mikkola, the team behind Finland’s legendary Midnight Sun Film Festival, which pledges to remain forever 35 – at least for now  

29/05/2020 | /Finland

Tone Grøttjord-Glenne  • Director of All That I Am

Interview: Tone Grøttjord-Glenne • Director of All That I Am

“Abused children don’t have a language for it”

We talked to Tone Grøttjord-Glenne, the director of All That I Am, detailing the story of a sexual abuse survivor as well as her fight to be heard  

29/05/2020 | Hot Docs 2020

Menios Carayannis  • Director of The Music of Things

Interview: Menios Carayannis • Director of The Music of Things

“A documentary takes you wherever it wants, not wherever you want”

We talked to Menios Carayannis, the director of The Music of Things, named Best Greek Film at the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival  

28/05/2020 | Thessaloniki Documentary 2020

Katerina Patroni  • Director of The Fourth Character

Interview: Katerina Patroni • Director of The Fourth Character

“You never know how people experience loss”

We talked to Katerina Patroni, the director of The Fourth Character, about the art of opening up  

27/05/2020 | Thessaloniki Documentary 2020

Review: The Hypnotist

Review: The Hypnotist

In his visually playful documentary, Arthur Franck looks for volunteers to join him on stage as he tells the story of hypnotist Olliver Hawk  

26/05/2020 | DocsBarcelona 2020

Stefanía Thors  • Director of The School of Housewives

Interview: Stefanía Thors • Director of The School of Housewives

“We don’t give ourselves time to just do things any more”

We talked to Reykjavik-born director Stefanía Thors about The School of Housewives, the titular old educational institution and how it aroused her curiosity  

26/05/2020 | Hot Docs 2020

Review: The Prophet and the Space Aliens

Review: The Prophet and the Space Aliens

Yoav Shamir encourages viewers to look up and face the close encounters of the third kind  

21/05/2020 | Thessaloniki Documentary 2020

Marcin Pieńkowski  • Artistic director, New Horizons Film Festival

Interview: Marcin Pieńkowski • Artistic director, New Horizons Film Festival

“Festivals are not just about showing movies”

We talked to the artistic director of Poland’s New Horizons Film Festival, Marcin Pieńkowski, about the gathering’s new November dates – and his kids’ love of Asterix  

21/05/2020 | New Horizons 2020

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