Camera as a witness: an interview with Jordie Koko, director of WHERE DO I BELONG

Date: 21-02-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

We caught up with the Brussels-based filmmaker Jordie Koko, whose latest film: WHERE DO I BELONG? is on T-Port courtesy of our partners at Wallonie Bruxelles Images.  We talked about the highly personal nature of the film, her studies at...


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Getting connected in Clermont – Filmmakers on their experience of the Talent Connexion

Date: 14-02-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Earlier this month we sent a delegation of filmmakers to the prestigious short film festival in Clermont-Ferrand. The mission –  to take part in the annual Clermont Talents Connexion, a programme designed to help up and coming filmmakers find information,...


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Crows and snow in felted wool – In conversation with Rebecca Blöcher of ‘Mama Micra’

Date: 07-02-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

  Rebecca Blöcher and Frédéric Schuld collaborated on the short animation MAMA MICRA, an emotional tale based on true events from Rebecca’s mother’s life. The moving stop-motion animation, told through figures crafted in wool and other materials, has already gained...


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Betina Kuntzsch on the nuances missed from history books and a 30-year career of video drawing

Date: 30-01-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Betina Kuntzsch, an artist and filmmaker, has spent over three decades pushing the boundaries of animated documentary film, blending personal history, archival footage, and striking visuals. Her latest work, SKY LIKE SILK, FULL OF ORANGES, which appears on T-Port Courtesy...


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Exploring the Complexities of Childhood Fantasy and Self-Identity in ‘Ever After’: A Conversation with Helen Hideko and Clara Maria Bacher

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...


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Max Öphuls Preis’ Louise Lindlar, on international collaboration and providing visibility for ‘inspiring talents’

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...


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Behind the ‘long and exhausting’ process to making Jennifer Drake’s GOD IS GREY

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...


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Szymon Ruczynski on his ‘deliberately imperfect’ and deeply powerful animation

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...


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It started with a CAPTCHA – Victoria Warmerdam on the highs and lows of making her OSCAR® shortlisted short

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®...


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The simple, complicated ideas of Michal Toczek

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...


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