This year at Cannes, we had the pleasure of spending time with an incredible group of 18 filmmakers whose projects were selected for the T-Port showcase and workshop. Every day, we met up for sessions where we got to know...
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T-Port State of the Industry Interviews: Cannes 2025
Date: 29-05-2025
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
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T-Port State of the Industry Interviews: Pride Month Special
Date: 20-06-2024
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
June’s Pride Month calls us to recognise the voices and stories of the lesbian, gay,bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) members of our communities alongside the struggle for equality and acceptance within our wider societies. Year-round we are truly...
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Script Pool Tallinn winner Léon Yersin on his intriguing feature film pitch, his short MISCELLANEOUS, and dreams of space operas
Date: 05-12-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
The 2023 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival finished recently, where the SCRIPT POOL AWARD of €5000 was awarded to the T-Port talent/filmmaker, Léon Yersin, who pitched the feature film “What Remains” at the PÖFF Script Pool. Yersin was selected to...
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Filmmaker Shira Yermiyahu on her collaborative filmmaking process and finding inspiration
Date: 27-11-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
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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From sickness to joy – Arvin Kananian on directing his ‘playful and elegant’ send-up of the perfectly polished
Date: 16-10-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
“Simon and Siván are the perfect artsy couple. Everything in their lives is curated, from the way they have sex to their choice of therapist. One night, during another soulless art exhibition, the shiny surface of their relationship starts to...
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Locarno Pardi di domani winners – The Interviews: Eric K. Boulianne on the importance of storytelling and the resilience of love
Date: 09-10-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Eric K. Boulianne switched from screenwriting to writing and directing for his short film FAIRE UN ENFANT (MAKING BABIES), and earned the Pardi di domani Best Direction Award BONALUMI Engineering. We chatted to the director about what it felt like...
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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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Locarno Pardi di domani winners – The Interviews: Amirhossein Shojaei on natural light, ambient sound, and distributing Iranian shorts
Date: 25-09-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
This year’s Locarno Film Festival may be over but here at T-Port we have their catalogue of selected shorts and winners here for professional subscribers to enjoy. Among them is THE GUARD, a film by Iranian filmmaker Amirhossein Shojaei, winner...
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Writing from a fascination with the unseen stories that surround us: An interview with filmmaker Can Baran
Date: 21-09-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Filmmaker Can Baran has just graduated from Turkey’s Bilkent University school of Communications and Design and his graduation film TENEMENT has made it to the National Student Films final at the Adana Golden Boll International Film Festival. In this interview...
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Documentary as a means of self-exploration and healing: an interview with Ehud Mordehay, director of UnNamed
Date: 17-08-2023
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
“On August 1, 2009, a perpetrator forcefully entered the meeting place for LGBTQ+ youth known as ‘Barnoar’ in the heart of Tel Aviv, unleashing a hail of gunfire indiscriminately. In an instant, that fateful bullet pierced my body, forever altering...
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