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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Filmmaker Shira Yermiyahu on her collaborative filmmaking process and finding inspiration
Date: 27-11-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
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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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Representation, karaoke, and recreating the past during a pandemic: A conversation with director Mimi Vlaovic
Date: 14-07-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Serbian-born, London-based director Mimi Vlaovic – whose film is on T-Port courtesy of our partners at Festival Formula, has seen festival success with her graduation short film YOUR GUARDIAN, including landing a nomination for the Young Director’s Award at Cannes....
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Filmmaker Yarden Malka Bonet on how her documentary helped address and heal family wounds
Date: 13-07-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
For her documentary THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ALAIN, director Yarden Malka Bonet took on the deeply personal subject of her grandfather, a man who returned to the family after a long absence spent in religious service in Germany. In this...
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From loss to creation: Exploring A PLACE THAT DOESN’T EXIST with Tehilla Ruddell
Date: 05-07-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
29-year-old Tehilla Ruddell just graduated from Minshar School of Art in Tel Aviv. In her short film “A PLACE THAT DOESN’T EXIST” she explores her own story, having left the orthodox Jewish world at the age of 16. We caught...
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The life cycle of cicadas spun into “a love letter to death and to my family”: Animator Fernanda Caicedo on using art to ponder the big questions
Date: 15-06-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Stop-motion animator Fernanda Caicedo learned about her Grandmother’s death when she was far away from her Ecuadorian family, while studying in Germany. The grief and distance spurred her to explore her own fear of death through her art. The result...
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A film made with friends, for friends: Lili Zahavi’s ME MYSELF ANDI
Date: 12-04-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Filmmaker Lili Zahavi made her documentary ME MYSELF ANDI about her best friend Andi, whose struggles in academia, hindered by her own lack of self-confidence, may strike a familiar chord. The film made it into the 2022 Festival Max Ophüls...
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The girl can pack a punch: director Lina Drevs on scrappy sisters and filming during COVID
Date: 07-04-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Filmmaker Lina Drevs based the theme of her Lighthouse Selected film SIS – BEST SISTER on her relationship with her own sisters. In our Spotlight Interview this week she opens up about filming during COVID and how she wants to...
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