T-Port Lighthouse Selections 2023: The Interviews – Documentarian Zohar Orian Cohen on her ‘need of justice and aspiration for truth’

Date: 07-12-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Israeli documentarian Zohar Orian Cohen describes herself as someone who seeks truth and justice, and it was in this spirit she turned the camera upon herself for her student film, created through the School of Audio and Visual Arts, Sapir...


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Script Pool Tallinn winner Léon Yersin on his intriguing feature film pitch, his short MISCELLANEOUS, and dreams of space operas

Date: 05-12-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

The 2023 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival finished recently, where the SCRIPT POOL AWARD of €5000 was awarded to the T-Port talent/filmmaker, Léon Yersin, who pitched the feature film “What Remains” at the PÖFF Script Pool. Yersin was selected to...


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Filmmaker Shira Yermiyahu on her collaborative filmmaking process and finding inspiration

Date: 27-11-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

FAIRY TALE by director Shira Yermiyahu, is a short film about 3 teenage girls on summer vacation, who are searching for adventure to relieve the boredom of a typical night in Yavne: A desperate quest for vodka ends in a...


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From sickness to joy – Arvin Kananian on directing his ‘playful and elegant’ send-up of the perfectly polished

Date: 16-10-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

“Simon and Siván are the perfect artsy couple. Everything in their lives is curated, from the way they have sex to their choice of therapist. One night, during another soulless art exhibition, the shiny surface of their relationship starts to...


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Locarno Pardi di domani winners – The Interviews: Eric K. Boulianne on the importance of storytelling and the resilience of love

Date: 09-10-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

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...


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Locarno Pardi di domani winners – The Interviews: Lea Bloch on speaking her truth

Date: 02-10-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

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...


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Locarno Pardi di domani winners – The Interviews: Amirhossein Shojaei on natural light, ambient sound, and distributing Iranian shorts

Date: 25-09-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

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...


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Writing from a fascination with the unseen stories that surround us: An interview with filmmaker Can Baran

Date: 21-09-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

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...


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Documentary as a means of self-exploration and healing: an interview with Ehud Mordehay, director of UnNamed

Date: 17-08-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

“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...


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Director Dawid Bodzak on acceptance to Cannes, lighting a neo-Giallo, and improvised film music on set

Date: 26-07-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

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...


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