Fabrizio Fusco’s short film THE SKY IS LOST /  Il cielo è perso caught the eye of our guest curator Jukka-Pekka Laakso, and made it into his contribution to the 2025 T-Port Lighthouse Selections.  In this interview, we find out...

Reza Rasouli’s film NIGHT OF PASSAGE tells the story of three Iranian refugees escaping into Austria, and it won the Audience Award at this year’s Max Öphuls Prize as well as Best Short Film at the Trieste Film Festival. We...

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...

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,...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...