Interviews

Weekly feature introducing you to film professionals from all over Europe sorted by name.

8559 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 02/12/2025. 639 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

Tamar Kalandadze, Julien Pebrel • Directors of The Kartli Kingdom

“The past is still in the walls of Kartli”

Tamar Kalandadze, Julien Pebrel • Directors of The Kartli Kingdom

The directorial duo break down their debut documentary feature, created as a testament to the exiled Georgians who have made a home out of an abandoned...  

26/11/2025 | IDFA 2025

Alex Noyer • Director of Love Is the Monster

“I wanted to make a horror for grown-ups”

Alex Noyer • Director of Love Is the Monster

With his new movie, the Paris-born director embraces his Finnish roots – and all the weirdness that comes with them  

26/11/2025 | /USA/Canada/Finland

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