Belgian-Italian filmmaker Mathieu Volpe has always stood at the intersection of cultures—and genres. Known for his documentary work, Volpe takes a bold step into fiction with ELDORADO, a quiet and emotional story of grief and migration set in the snowy...

  Writer-director Romina Küper and producer Katharina Mumper join us to discuss their short film: THIS IS NOT A CHARACTER, THIS IS BETRAYAL, made by the German duo during their time at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and selected for the 2025 T-Port...

German filmmaker and artist Geeske Janßen discusses her short film MONIKA, part of a three-year research project on sex dolls that took her from Las Vegas factories to brothels in Dortmund. We chatted to the filmmaker, a long-term resident of...

Luzie Kurth is the creative force behind the short film PÊCHE, which was picked by guest curator Jukka-Pekka Laakso as part of our 2015 Lighthouse Selection.  In this interview, we chatted to the filmmaker about cinema, food, and the beauty...

Slovenian-born filmmaker Jan Krevatin chats to us about his tender short GREEK APRICOTS, a quiet story of two strangers meeting under neon lights at a gas station.  Krevatin, who now lives in Zagreb, is a participant in the European Film...

Slovenian director Simon Intihar made the cut for our 2025 T-Port Lighthouse Selections with his short film CONTAINER (picked by our guest curator Jukka-Pekka Laakso) a visceral and textured portrait of three characters reclaiming their space in a community facing...

For Offenbach-based filmmaker Mara Weinert, filmmaking is a natural extension of how she navigates the world. Through an evolving interest in documentation and animation, her recent short NÄCHSTER HALT: WIESBADEN OST, which appears on T-Port via our partners at HfMA, ...

Veera Lamminpää is a Finnish filmmaker, animator, and storyteller whose award-winning short film Mereneläviä (FISH RIVER ANTHOLOGY) combines stop-motion animation and musical poetry to explore everyday interactions and hidden inner lives. Her work appears on T-Port courtesy of our partners...

Inbar Shtiglitz is a filmmaker originally from Givatayim, Israel, now living between France and Israel. A graduate of our partners over at the Minshar School of Arts, Inbar has written and directed three narrative shorts and is currently editing a...

Filmmaker Rony Efrat is afraid of bugs—but she watches them. In her Lighthouse-selected short “Failing Forward”, which was picked by Guest Curator Jukka-Pekka Laakso, memory, AI, and glitch coalesce into a haunting audiovisual essay. From Laurie Anderson to “Zoolander”, we...