Interviews

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Fionnuala Halligan • Director of international film programming, Red Sea International Film Festival

“This year, it became clear that many stories are about people finding their place or those who never manage to”

Fionnuala Halligan • Director of international film programming, Red Sea International Film Festival

The programmer breaks down this year’s selection process and how she works with Saudi audiences

02/12/2025 | Red Sea 2025

Amin Motallebzadeh • Director of Conference of the Birds

“I like to think of film as a scene one observes from a park bench”

Amin Motallebzadeh • Director of Conference of the Birds

The German-Iranian director reveals a few key aspects of his debut feature, as well as how he conceives of filmmaking, pain and even football

02/12/2025 | Lanzarote 2025

George Ovashvili • Director of The Moon Is a Father of Mine

"The fight is to do your work and do it well — to make strong films"

George Ovashvili • Director of The Moon Is a Father of Mine

The Georgian filmmaker opened up about his film’s autobiographical echoes and the collaborative weight of an intricate European co-production spanning six...

02/12/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

Milena Džambasović, Danna Stern • Producers of Wool

“Humble beginnings and skilled hands can create something beautiful that connects generations and communities across countries”

Milena Džambasović, Danna Stern • Producers of Wool

The producing duo discuss their ambitious new drama series, which won the Council of Europe Series Co-Production Development Award in this year’s TV Beats...

02/12/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Siiri Halko • Director of The Well

“I aim to create moments where your mind questions what is happening on screen, but your senses accept it as real”

Siiri Halko • Director of The Well

The Finnish filmmaker discusses her psychological drama, which has just picked up the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic...

02/12/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Denys Sobolev • Director of Alice Wants to Live

“This is not a film about heroism, loss or battles; it is a film about the human, about what is most precious”

Denys Sobolev • Director of Alice Wants to Live

The Ukrainian director reflects on his new project, which received the Eurimages Special Co-Production Development Award at this year’s Industry@Tallinn &...

01/12/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Charles Courcier • Distributor, Soupir

“We ‘talk’ to the audience directly, while traditional distributors talk to adults while trying to understand what could be cool for kids”

Charles Courcier • Distributor, Soupir

The Paris-based digital distributor shares how his experiences in the animation world led him to build a model that brings premium content more directly to...

28/11/2025 | Distributor of the Month

Alberto Gastesi • Director of Singular

“I always talk about vindicating the human in the face of the promise of technical perfection”

Alberto Gastesi • Director of Singular

The director of the Sitges-premiered thriller speaks about finding and retaining humanity in an age where artificiality and technocentricism threaten to...

28/11/2025 | /Spain/Finland

Joseba Lopezortega • Director, Zinebi

“Cinema and culture are in urgent need of a dialogue with their societies”

Joseba Lopezortega • Director, Zinebi

The director of the Basque festival talks to us about his professional experience and his ambitions to tie the event more closely to the city of Bilbao

28/11/2025 | Zinebi 2025

Janicke Askevold • Director of Solomamma

“This award tells me that there is space for stories about non-traditional families — and that gives me the courage to continue”

Janicke Askevold • Director of Solomamma

After scooping the Eurimages Audentia Award, the Norwegian helmer reflects on the journey undertaken by her drama exploring solo motherhood and...

27/11/2025 | Cork 2025

David Gašo • Director of The History of Illness

“The physical space itself has always been a very important focus in my films, so a lot of my references stem from hospital photographs and architecture”

David Gašo • Director of The History of Illness

The Croatian director discusses his absurdist comedy project which bagged the Eurimages Award at the 18th TFL Meeting Event

27/11/2025 | TorinoFilmLab 2025

Asaari Bibang • Actress in Beef

“Beef is about freestyle battles, but also the ones we fight in life”

Asaari Bibang • Actress in Beef

We spoke to the actress about the film she appears in, in which urban freestyle becomes a space to explore identity, conflict and creation for a group of...

27/11/2025 | /Spain/Mexico

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk • Director of Silent Flood

“Communities have their own planet, their own laws of physics and gravity, and that’s what I want to discover”

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk • Director of Silent Flood

The Ukrainian director discusses his feature-length documentary about people who live in harmony with nature, at the mercy of the nearby river and in...

27/11/2025 | IDFA 2025

Richard Holm • Director of We Die Tonight

“We were aiming for a very brutal popcorn movie”

Richard Holm • Director of We Die Tonight

It’s best to steer clear of supermarkets in this Swedish thriller, in which store employees and random shoppers find themselves under siege

27/11/2025 | /Sweden

Massoud Bakhshi • Director of All My Sisters

“The film is about ‘growth’ – the growth of three sisters, but also the growth of Iranian society”

Massoud Bakhshi • Director of All My Sisters

The Iranian filmmaker tells us about how he used a camera to document the coming of age of his nieces in Tehran

26/11/2025 | IDFA 2025

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