Interviews

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

8556 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 29/11/2025. 639 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

Nikolaj Nikitin • Curator, Critics' Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

"To curate is to care — about stories, about voices, about the emotions we dare to show"

Nikolaj Nikitin • Curator, Critics' Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

We met up with the curator of the festival section, for whom cinema is not just entertainment, "it is urgency, emotion, and the bold insistence that our...  

26/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Critics' Picks

Javier Fuentes Feo • Director, Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote

“We are absolutely convinced that culture is essential”

Javier Fuentes Feo • Director, Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote

As the Canary Islands-based festival turns 15, its head – at the helm of a ship steered by a non-profit association – talks to us about this anniversary and...  

26/11/2025 | Lanzarote 2025

Pablo Berger • Director of Robot Dreams

“If you make films that come from your gut and that you believe in, you will find an audience”

Pablo Berger • Director of Robot Dreams

The Spanish director chats to us about how he feels to be the recipient of one of Zinebi’s Honorary Mikeldis this year, and about his Oscar-nominated...  

25/11/2025 | Zinebi 2025

Ali Vatansever • Director of LifeLike

"The human condition is much richer than stripped-down concepts of life"

Ali Vatansever • Director of LifeLike

The Turkish director shared with us why he celebrates life more than the concepts of it — and why audiences should experience their own feelings rather than...  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

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