Austrian filmmaker Nicolás Pindeus is behind THE LAST PEOPLE (DIE LETZTEN MENSCHEN), his graduation film from Filmakademie Wien, a thought-provoking short drama exploring the dwindling population of a rural village, which was picked by Guest Curator Kasia Karwan for the...

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...