T-Port Blog

Special Opportunity For Filmmakers – T-Port Workshop during Berlinale 2026

By: T-Port Team
22-01-2026
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, T-Port Event
If you are interested in our upcoming online TalentBridge workshop series, you can register your interest here. The information below is about our one-off in-person workshop during Berlinale, which you can sign up for below. Filmmakers who are looking for information on their next steps in the film industry are invited to apply to join […]
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Locarno Pardi di domani winners – The Interviews: Eric K. Boulianne on the importance of storytelling and the resilience of love

By: T-Port Team
09-10-2023
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Fiction, Film Festival, Filmmakers
Eric K. Boulianne switched from screenwriting to writing and directing for his short film FAIRE UN ENFANT (MAKING BABIES), and earned the Pardi di domani Best Direction Award BONALUMI Engineering. We chatted to the director about what it felt like to receive such an honour, as well as getting the lowdown on how he made […]
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Locarno Pardi di domani winners – The Interviews: Lea Bloch on speaking her truth

By: T-Port Team
02-10-2023
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Fiction, Film Festival, Filmmakers
Filmmaker Lea Bloch’s film LAST NIGHT is a tense drama based around a group of friends unravelling the non-consensual sex that occurred between two of them the previous night. The film won the Pardino d’oro Swiss Life award for the Best Swiss Short Film at Locarno Film Festival in 2023. We caught up with the […]
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The Industry Interview with Sven Schwarz, Administrative Director of Short Film Festival Hamburg

By: T-Port Team
28-09-2023
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Film Festival, Film Industry Insight, Professional
Welcome to T-Port’s Industry Interviews, where we chat with people from the short film world about their roles, organisations, and the future of short film. This week we caught up with Sven Schwarz, the Administrative Director of Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg to chat about great films, beautiful festival experiences, and why he loves his job. What […]
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Locarno Pardi di domani winners – The Interviews: Amirhossein Shojaei on natural light, ambient sound, and distributing Iranian shorts

By: T-Port Team
25-09-2023
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Fiction, Film Festival, Filmmakers
This year’s Locarno Film Festival may be over but here at T-Port we have their catalogue of selected shorts and winners here for professional subscribers to enjoy. Among them is THE GUARD, a film by Iranian filmmaker Amirhossein Shojaei, winner of the Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award. We caught up with the filmmaker about what […]
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Writing from a fascination with the unseen stories that surround us: An interview with filmmaker Can Baran

By: T-Port Team
21-09-2023
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Fiction, Film Festival, Filmmakers
Filmmaker Can Baran has just graduated from Turkey’s Bilkent University school of Communications and Design and his graduation film TENEMENT has made it to the National Student Films final at the Adana Golden Boll International Film Festival. In this interview we caught up with Can to find out more about his late-night inspiration sessions, what […]
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Advice from the industry: An interview with Jukka-Pekka Laakso, Festival Director of Tampere Film Festival

By: T-Port Team
20-09-2023
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Film Festival, Film Industry Insight, Professional
    Tampere Film Festival, Finland is one of the three largest short film festivals that happen annually in Europe – screening around 400 films every year and attracting approximately 30,000 visitors. We chatted to Festival Director Jukka-Pekka Laakso about the festival, their films, and why short films are important. What about your role and […]
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Documentary as a means of self-exploration and healing: an interview with Ehud Mordehay, director of UnNamed

By: T-Port Team
17-08-2023
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Fiction, Film Festival, Filmmakers
“On August 1, 2009, a perpetrator forcefully entered the meeting place for LGBTQ+ youth known as ‘Barnoar’ in the heart of Tel Aviv, unleashing a hail of gunfire indiscriminately. In an instant, that fateful bullet pierced my body, forever altering the course of my life.” With these words, filmmaker Ehud (Udi) Mordehay introduces the heartbreaking […]
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Director Dawid Bodzak on acceptance to Cannes, lighting a neo-Giallo, and improvised film music on set

By: T-Port Team
26-07-2023
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Fiction, Film Festival, Filmmakers
Filmmaker Dawid Bodzak has recently graduated from the Polish National Film School in Lodz and he has more reasons to celebrate as his film KROKODYL was selected for the 2023 Cannes Court Metrage. We caught up with the filmmaker to talk about his process, lighting a neo-Gialo that was shot on film stock, his unique […]
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Protecting an institution in danger: An interview with Julie Rousson, from Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

By: T-Port Team
13-06-2023
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Film Festival, Film Industry Insight, Professional
The Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and Market is a central part of the events calendar for short filmmakers and those in the wider industry. But the organisation recently announced that a substantial cut in their grant from the regional council could put the entire event in danger. We talked to Julie Rousson, Programmer, Industry Events […]
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An insider look at Berlinale Talents 2023 with Amos Geva, T-Port’s Head of Business

By: T-Port Team
22-03-2023
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, T-Port Event
This February our Head of Industry Amos Geva took part in the prestigious Berlinale Talents programme, a talent development programme that explores the how and why of movie making. The programme describes itself as “a one-of-a-kind forum for film professionals and cinema lovers alike, featuring public talks, discipline-specific workshops, project development Labs and networking events.”  […]
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Adding a tiny bit of hope – an interview with Oscar nominated director Anders Walter Hansen

By: T-Port Team
01-03-2023
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Film Festival, Independent
We caught up with the Danish director whose film appears on T-Port courtesy of Premium Films, about hope, passion, and his Oscar-nominated short IVALU. Tell us about yourself I am 45-years-old, from Denmark. I live in Copenhagen and am currently in post-production on my next feature. A big Danish WW2 epic. How did you first […]
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Oscar-nominated director Eirik Tveiten on the challenges of filming NIGHT RIDE

By: T-Port Team
01-03-2023
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Film Festival, Independent
Eirik Tveiten is no stranger to the short film format, having directed 14 shorts in his career so far. His most recent, NIGHT RIDE, follows protagonist Ebba on an unexpected journey, and garnered him an Oscar nod. We caught up with the director, whose work appears on T-Port through our new partner Premium Films, to […]
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Yotam Knispel, director of LOVE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT on capturing the quiet horror of an impossible situation

By: T-Port Team
24-02-2023
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Film Festival, Independent
Rina can’t look at her son Dean, who’s under house arrest at her home. She has until tomorrow to decide if she can stand by his side. So begins Yotam Knispel’s award-winning short LOVE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, a tense drama about the relationship between a mother and son. The film, presented on […]
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The filmmaker uncovering his true self in I ASKED HIM TO TAKE ME DANCING – Lighthouse Selections 2022

By: T-Port Team
09-02-2023
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Film Festival, Independent
In order to make his documentary I ASKED HIM TO TAKE ME DANCING, filmmaker Hillel Rate carried his camera with him on first dates for six months. What ensues is a musing on what a person loses when they gain monogamous love. Alongside being picked by Olha Raiter in our 2022 Lighthouse Selections, the film […]
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Sam van Zoest on his ‘ode to friendship and happy creativity’ ALL THAT COULD BE – Lighthouse Selections 2022

By: T-Port Team
26-01-2023
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Film Festival, Independent
Filmmaker Sam van Zoest made his 2022 Lighthouse Selected film ALL THAT COULD BE, partially improvised, with a group of close friends, and it shows in the joy that comes through in the watching experience. Lighthouse curator Olha Raiter had this to say about the Dutch docudrama: “The flow of joy, discoveries, fears, and cautiousness […]
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Follow the mysterious hum – Filmmaker Nicholas Lachapelle on blending sound and visual documentaries

By: T-Port Team
20-01-2023
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Film Festival, Independent
Filmmaker Nicholas Lachapelle’s documentary film ZUG ISLAND, presented on T-Port via our partners at Les Films du 3 Mars, focusses on a mysterious hum heard around an area of Michigan. What the filmmakers found was an abandoned neighbourhood devastated by decades of industrial rollout. We caught up with the director to talk about how he convinced […]
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Hand-drawn mayhem in Studio Corallo’s DOOM CRUISE – Lighthouse Selections 2022

By: T-Port Team
19-01-2023
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Film Festival, Independent
Hannah Stragholz and Simon Steinhorst are Studio Corallo, an animation studio from Cologne, Germany whose film DOOM CRUISE arrived on T-Port through our partners at AG Kurzfilm, and was picked by Enrico Vannucci for our 2022 Lighthouse Selections. We caught up with them to find out more about the animation that they hope will make […]
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Our Highlights of 2022

By: T-Port Team
17-01-2023
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Film Festival, Independent
Happy new year to all of our followers, colleagues, filmmakers, and friends. Thank you so much for supporting T-Port. We are glad to share with you some of our highlights from the year. T-Port’s Lighthouse Selections In November of this year, we released the third edition of T-Port Lighthouse Selections. Guest curator’s Enrico Vannucci and […]
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40 years of supporting upcoming filmmakers: we get Utopian with Theresa Winkler, Programme Head of the Max Ophüls Preis

By: T-Port Team
16-01-2023
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Film Festival, Independent
The Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis takes place from the 23rd to 29th January 2023 in Saarbrücken, Germany.  T-Port are partnering with MOP, we will be hosting a selection of their short films from Jan 30, straight after the event. We asked their Head of Programme, Theresa Winkler, to tell us more about the event and […]
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Figuring it out along the way: An interview with Laurenz Otto – Director of AGAINST ALL ODDS – Lighthouse Selections 2022

By: T-Port Team
12-01-2023
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Film Festival, Independent
Director Laurenz Otto’s coming-of-age short made it to T-Port by being selected as part of German Films Next Generation Short Tiger, and was selected by our 2022 Lighthouse Selections curator Olha Raiter who described the film as “daring and imaginative.” We caught up with the filmmaker to find out more about his process towards self-belief. […]
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Looking for home: An interview with Roni Bahat, director of BEGIN – 2022 Lighthouse Selections

By: T-Port Team
04-01-2023
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Film Festival, Independent
Roni Bahat lives in Tel Aviv, where she was born and raised. Works at the New Fund for Cinema and TV (NFCT) as head of the Narrative Film Department and Producer of the WomanFilms Narrative Hub. She is a filmmaker and a poet. ‘Begin’ is her second film. Her previous short OLD THING premiered at […]
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Searching for the filmmakers that will shape cinema: An interview with Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma’s Head of Short and Feature Film Programmer Émilie Poirier

By: T-Port Team
04-01-2023
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Film Festival, Independent
 As the head of short and feature film programmer at Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinema (FNC), Émilie Poirier knows a thing or two about how to pick the films that will help move the culture forward. We caught up with her to celebrate FNC’s new offerings on T-Port, and to lament the lack of short […]
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Finding the fresh perspectives: An Interview with Eddie Bertozzi, Head of Pardi di domani Programming Office, Locarno Film Festival

By: T-Port Team
16-12-2022
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Film Festival, Independent
Over the course of its 75-year history, the Locarno Film Festival has become one of the most important film events in the world. We were lucky enough to catch up with Locarno’s short film expert – Eddie Bertozzi, Head of Pardi di domani Programming Office, ahead of our new collaboration with the festival, to find […]
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Watch the Official Trailer for our 2022 Lighthouse Selections

By: T-Port Team
15-12-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
We are proud to present the official 2022 T-Port Lighthouse Selections – a highly curated list of some of the best short films by emerging filmmakers T-Port has to offer. Thoughtfully curated by short film experts Olha Raiter (Lviv International Short Film Festival) and Enrico Vannucci ( Locarno Film Festival, Talents and Short Film Market […]
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Tallinn Black Nights Script Pool organiser Triin Tramberg on why short films are important

By: T-Port Team
10-11-2022
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Film Festival, Independent
The sixth annual Script Pool Competition takes place from Nov 22 – 24 during the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The Script Pool competition is part of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event’s film market activities and the Discovery Campus educational programme. We caught up with the event organiser, Triin Tramberg to find out what the competition […]
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Techno inspiration and cinematic dreams: Director Ari Gilad on processing life through art and music

By: T-Port Team
02-11-2022
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Film Festival, Independent
From 6-10 November, our partners at Sapir College will be holding the Cinema South Festival. The Short Film Competition will feature 12 new short films from Israel and around the world. One contender is recent graduate Ari Gilad – who we spoke to to find out more about his film “In Living Memory.” Ari Gilad […]
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From lollipops to Oscar nods. Eugen Merher shares his experiences directing in a foreign land for ‘The Boy Who Couldn’t Feel Pain’

By: T-Port Team
28-10-2022
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Film Festival, Independent
Filmmaker Eugen Merher is finally ready to graduate from Filmakademie Baden Wurttemberg and make his mark on the world. And he’s off to a great start – having gained a nomination from the Student Academy Awards for his film “The Boy Who Couldn’t Feel Pain.” In this inspiring and in-depth interview, Eugen shares with us […]
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Rimantė Daugėlaitė – Head of the Baltic Pitching Forum on finding and showcasing exciting new voices from the region

By: T-Port Team
06-10-2022
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Film Festival, Independent
The 10th edition of the Baltic Pitching Forum is being held from 5-8 October in Vilnius, Lithuania. – To celebrate the event, which advertises itself as a unique platform for networking and bringing the latest short film projects from the Baltics into the spotlight, and our recent partnership with its organiser Lithuanian Shorts, we caught […]
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4 T-Port partner films make it to the final round of the Student Academy Awards!

By: T-Port Team
07-09-2022
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Awards, Film Festival
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (USC) has two films in the running, Olivia Peace’s AGAINST REALITY and Josh Green’s WAVES APART. The latter is available to watch on T-Port. Columbia University has Gabriella Canal and Michael Fearon’s SEASONS. Lastly Filmakademie Baden Württemberg has Eugen Merher’s THE BOY WHO COULDN’T FEEL PAIN.The latter […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight – Exploring the tragicomical with Alica Bednáriková

By: T-Port Team
29-06-2022
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Awards, Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
Ahead of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week we caught up with director Alica Bednáriková whose film “Liquid Bread / Chlieb Náš Každodenný” will be screened at the festival, presented by European Film Promotion’s Future Frames programme. The programme puts a spotlight on outstanding young directors from Europe. Ten film students and graduates will […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight – DIY filmmaking and the power of reality : An interview with filmmaker Jacob Perlmutter

By: T-Port Team
16-06-2022
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Awards, Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
  Jacob Perlmutter made his film “A Wall” during lockdown. The narrative sees a repressed woman falling passionately in love with a wall in her house. We spoke to the filmmaker about the minimalist shoot and why he finds reality more fulfilling than dreams. Tell us about yourself I’m a London-based filmmaker with… my debut […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight: On mortality and defying your own expectations – an interview with director Pedro M. Afonso

By: T-Port Team
14-06-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Uncategorized
    Director Pedro M. Afonso’s short film “To Examine One’s Self” is currently available on T-Port via our partners Festival Formula. The film, which was inspired by practices described by his partner who was studying medicine, proved to be a “transformational process” for Afonso, changing how he saw his own mortality. We caught up […]
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7 T-Port partner films headed to Cannes

By: T-Port Team
18-05-2022
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Awards, Film Festival
Fantastic news! 7 films by T-Port partners have been selected for Cannes – find out more below:    Scale for: La Semaine de la Critique Joseph Pierce  13min I  Animation I 2022 Salaud Morisset Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug addiction deepens, he struggles to unpick the sequence […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight – Cannes Edition ☉ Orin Kadoori on Cannes, her process, and passions

By: T-Port Team
18-05-2022
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Awards, Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
26-year-old Orin Kadoori is a third-year student at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. Her film “Sheherut (Kinship)” made the selection for La Cinef at Cannes 2022. We found out more about how it feels to be chosen for such a prestigious honour and what comes next. Tell us […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight at Cannes 2022 ☉ Lodz Film School’s Olga Klyszewicz on Cannes acceptance and her creative process

By: T-Port Team
18-05-2022
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animation, Awards, Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
It’s going to be a busy fortnight for director Olga Klyszewicz – whose short film “We Are Not There Tomorrow” premieres as part of the Selection La Cinef at Cannes 2022. We caught up with her to find out how it felt to find out and what this means for her filmmaking future.  Tell us […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Animators Petra Stipetić and Maren Wiese on switching to stop-motion

By: T-Port Team
10-05-2022
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animation, Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
We caught up with the animators, and students of hFMA,to talk about their film “Jeijay,” a short about everyday life, dating apps, and weird dates. “Jeijay” is available to watch to subscribers on T-Port as part of the hFMA catalogue.  Tell us about yourselves: We are – Petra Stipetić (*03/01/1992 in Zagreb, Croatia) and Maren […]
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Heading to Cannes – With Our Partner ‘Lights On’

By: T-Port Team
09-05-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
The Cannes film festival will be happening from May 17 – 28 2022 and we are proud to announce that several short films from our partners have made the final selection. Two films in the competition are from our partners at “Lights On” – previewed below. Members can view the rest of the T-Port catalogue […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Caren Wuhrer

By: T-Port Team
06-05-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent
    For this edition of the T-Port Filmmaker Spotlight – we spoke to German director Caren Wuhrer, whose short thriller “It Wasn’t Me” is available, presented in our partner Hessische Film und Medienakademie (hFMA)’s catalogue.  Wuhrer is director, producer, and writer of “It Wasn’t Me” which she shot during her studies at the University […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Creators of “Oliver’s Pixie Hunt”

By: T-Port Team
04-04-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
    This is a special edition of T-Port Filmmaker Spotlight – this time we got a chance to talk to three emerging filmmakers who collaborated to create one of T-Port’s most enchanting titles, the German hybrid short, “Oliver’s Pixie Hunt” (“Oliver auf Kammerjagd”), which is presented in our partner’s Bauhaus University Weimar catalogue.  The […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Luis Schubert and “Blind Spots”

By: T-Port Team
04-04-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
Luis Schuber’s latest short film may be the most “Meta” project on T-Port. Titled “Blind Spots”, the film’s orginal use of the “film within a film” trope, makes it a deeply gut-punching viewing experience – with a compact runtime of just 9 min. The festival darling was screened at Palm Springs ShortFest, Slamdance and Filmfest […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Lighthouse Selections – Part 1

By: T-Port Team
08-03-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
For the 2021 edition of T-Port Lighthouse Selections – our curated program of short films by emerging talent, we discussed with the filmmakers about their artistic journey, their challenges in the filmmaking process as well as their sources of inspiration.  Here we present the first part of the interviews, of the shorts selected by guest […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Lighthouse Selections – Part 2

By: T-Port Team
07-03-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
For the 2021 edition of T-Port Lighthouse Selections – our curated program of short films by emerging talent, we discussed with the filmmakers about their artistic journey, their challenges in the filmmaking process as well as their sources of inspiration.  Here we present the second part in the series of interviews from the shorts selected […]
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Israeli Delegation on Clermont-Ferrand Market 2022

By: T-Port Team
26-01-2022
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Awards, Film Festival
Powered by T-Port   A programme of new Israeli shorts, including world premiers and award-winning films will be screened at the Short Film Market on February 1, 2022, at 20:15 CET. The screening will also be streamed online via the Shortfilmwire platform.  On January 31, 2022, at 11:00 CET, we will host the filmmakers for […]
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5 T-Port films on the Oscars Shortlist

By: T-Port Team
18-01-2022
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Awards, Film Festival
Fantastic news! 5 films on T-Port have been selected for the 94th Academy Award shortlist in the categories “Live Action Short Film” and “Animated Short Film”!       Censor of Dreams   for: Live Action Short Film Léo Berne, Raphaël Rodriguez 18min I  Comedy ; Drama I 2021 Salaud Morisset Night after night The Censor and […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Serhat Karaaslan and “The Criminals”

By: T-Port Team
18-01-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
Serhat Karaaslan is a Turkey-born emerging filmmaker, working on both short and feature-length projects.  His latest short film, “The Criminals”, is a Turkish-language crime-drama which follows a young couple trying to find a hotel room to spend the night in together, but they are rejected from all hotels for not having a marriage certificate. Once […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Andrey Natotsinskii and “Katia”

By: T-Port Team
17-01-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
   Andrey Natotsinskii is a Moscow-based filmmaker, actor and photographer. His latest short film, “Katia”, is a fictional drama following Galina, who after her daughter’s death, remains completely alone and loses the meaning of life. Suddenly, she finds the incarnation of her daughter in a prostitute she meets in an elevator. The film is available […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Maria Semenova and “The City of The Sun”

By: T-Port Team
13-01-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
Maria Semenova is a Moscow-born filmmaker. She recently graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (also known as VGIK), where she directed several short films, experimenting with both fiction and documentary storytelling.  Maria’s most recent short, the documentary The City of The Sun, is available on T-Port in the catalogue of Eastwood Agency, an emerging […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Rona Segal and “Mission: Hebron”

By: T-Port Team
07-12-2021
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
Rona Segal is an Israeli filmmaker with work spanning genres, themes and mediums. Her latest short film – Mission: Hebron, is a documentary examining the ways Israeli soldiers exercise control over aspects of Palestinian civil life. The film brings six ex-soldiers to face the camera and recall their recent service, offering a view into one […]
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#No Filter – The Art of Short Film Curation

By: T-Port Team
11-10-2021
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Film Festival, T-Port Event
*Industry panel by T-Port in collaboration with Sarajevo Film Festival* Every emerging filmmaker knows the uphill battle which is promoting your short film. Challenges, barriers, and “Filters” are constantly popping up, yet they serve to play an important role. How do decision-makers, the people who decide which films get screened, sold, or selected, make their […]
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