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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: 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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Director Dawid Bodzak on acceptance to Cannes, lighting a neo-Giallo, and improvised film music on set

Date: 26-07-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Filmmaker Dawid Bodzak has recently graduated from the Polish National Film School in Lodz and he has more reasons to celebrate as his film KROKODYL was selected for the 2023 Cannes Court Metrage. We caught up with the filmmaker to...


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‘A thousand different lives at the same time’: An interview with EFP Future Frames Filmmaker Joris Tobé

Date: 23-06-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Joris Tobé’s graduation film FRANTIC ATTEMPTS appears at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week courtesy of our partners at EFP Future Frames, and it was awarded the Circle of Film Critics Award for best graduation film at the Dutch...


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The magical light of Spain: An interview with Christian Avilés, director of DAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS

Date: 21-06-2023

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

This week, several upcoming European filmmakers will be sharing their work at the prestigious Karlovy Vary Film Festival as part of the European Film Promotion’s (EFP) Future Frames Programme. One of whom is the Spanish director Christian Avilés, whose graduation...


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