Date: 24-01-2025
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
In this insightful conversation, director Helen Hideko and producer Clara Maria Bacher discuss their creative journey behind EVER AFTER, a film that blends personal experience with universal themes of otherness, identity, and fantasy. “Ever After” appears on T-Port courtesy of...
Date: 20-01-2025
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
We caught up with the Head of Industry from the German-speaking film prize about how they support and champion upcoming filmmakers, as well as what to expect from the 2025 edition of the festival, which starts today (Jan 20th.) Hi...
Date: 17-01-2025
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Ghanaian filmmaker Jennifer Drake moved to Munich for film school where she worked as a producer before directing her first short GOD IS GREY. The short, which explores the taboos around sexuality in her home and adopted countries, had its...
Date: 14-01-2025
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Szymon Ruczyński’s animated film THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE FOREST has seen its share of festival success around the world, and made the T-Port Lighthouse Selections in 2023. But as the film has travelled, the humanitarian crisis it depicts continues...
Date: 06-01-2025
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Victoria Warmerdam’s short comedy-drama I’M NOT A ROBOT has gained accolades and awards across the festival circuit from Sitges to Cannes. But perhaps the pinnacle is yet to come, as the Dutch film has been shortlisted for the ACADEMY AWARD®...
Date: 17-12-2024
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Filmmaker Michal Toczek has been busy – four of his films currently appear on T-Port, each with intersecting themes and ideas, and two featuring the same well known Polish comic actor – Sebastian Stankiewicz – in dramatic roles. In this...
Date: 05-12-2024
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Baltic Pitching Forum alumna Ieva Šakalytė (she/her) was gracious enough to share two of her short films BECOMING ANIMAL (2018) and SPA (2024) with us, so we caught up with the Lithuanian filmmaker to chat about the production process, the...
Date: 18-11-2024
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Filmmaker Gleb Osatinski has been busy since his film OUTSIDERS made the cut for the 2021 T-Port Lighthouse Selections. In this catch up interview, we chat to the Ukrainian-born filmmaker about his current awards run after a lengthy pre production...
Date: 15-08-2024
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Hoda Taheri, born in Tehran, Iran in 1992, is an Iranian Refugee Artist and Filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. In 2016, she received her bachelor’s degree in visual communication from Limkokwing University in Malaysia. Her short film MOTHER PRAYS ALL...
Date: 09-08-2024
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Chadi Bennani is a filmmaker from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In this interview the documentarian talks about his cinematic origins, the close and trusting relationship he builds with his subjects and crew, as well as how he uses film to...
