Interviews

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

8477 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 11/10/2025. 656 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Bartek Pulcyn • Artistic director, Warsaw Film Festival

“The role of our festival is to shed light on what is valuable”

Bartek Pulcyn • Artistic director, Warsaw Film Festival

Warsaw’s new artistic director discusses the changes he has introduced to the structure of the event, unspooling from 10-19 October  

10/10/2025 | Warsaw 2025

Daniela Elstner • Managing Director, Unifrance

"We want to make cinema more accessible, to show that it’s not just a dusty old thing for old people and that it can reinvent itself"

Daniela Elstner • Managing Director, Unifrance

The French agency head chatted with us about MyMetaStories, the highly original European film festival unspooling online and primarily within Minecraft  

09/10/2025 | /France

James McAvoy • Director of California Schemin'

“It’s important for me as a storyteller to entertain people and make them laugh before I make them cry”

James McAvoy • Director of California Schemin'

The Scotsman breaks down his directorial debut, a comedy based on the true story of a Scottish rapping duo who pretended to be American  

09/10/2025 | Zurich 2025

Veronika Hafner • Director of Obhut

“There was the big question of how we could show children in a way that wouldn’t reproduce what we were criticising”

Veronika Hafner • Director of Obhut

The Munich-based director explains how she created her debut feature, with a story informed heavily by her parallel career as a psychotherapist for children...  

09/10/2025 | Zurich 2025

Jonas Ulrich • Director of Wolves

“I always dreamed of a film taking place in the black metal world, which would also take it seriously”

Jonas Ulrich • Director of Wolves

The Zurich-based director shares the story behind his creative deep dive into the fascinating subculture of black metal, including building a real band from...  

09/10/2025 | Zurich 2025

Andrea Segre • Director of The Great Ambition

"We wanted to make a film with Enrico Berlinguer, not about Enrico Berlinguer"

Andrea Segre • Director of The Great Ambition

The director talks about his film, charting the innovative project led by Italian politician Enrico Berlinguer, a little-known name from the world of deeply...  

08/10/2025 | /Italy/Belgium/Bulgaria

Isabelle Fauvel • Head, Silence&Conversation

“The sensory dimension naturally led us to discuss images, sound and directing – the great forgotten element in today’s development conversations”

Isabelle Fauvel • Head, Silence&Conversation

The film professional explains more about the Cook Your Project programme, an innovative scheme that blends cooking and film writing  

08/10/2025 | /France

Milan Skrobanek • Director of The Unspoken Language

“I wanted to show how two people who cannot easily communicate with each other can still fall in love”

Milan Skrobanek • Director of The Unspoken Language

The German director discusses what inspired him to tell a story about the relationship between a deaf woman and a visually impaired man  

08/10/2025 | Hamburg 2025

Mario Bova • Director, Euro Balkan Film Festival

“The festival offers audiences a selection of testimonies that move from the anguish of war towards hope for the future”

Mario Bova • Director, Euro Balkan Film Festival

The festival director discusses how cinema can help heal the wounds of memory, and his goal of building bridges between the Balkans and Western Europe  

01/10/2025 | /Italy

Harris Dickinson • Director of Urchin

“They’re definitely very separate for me, the roles of director and actor”

Harris Dickinson • Director of Urchin

The rising star, both in front of and behind the camera, talks us through his hard-hitting directorial debut, about a young rough sleeper in the midst of a...  

01/10/2025 | Dinard 2025

Stephan De Potter, Marc Smit • Distributors, Cinéart

“We try to select films that provide meaning and open people’s eyes to certain realities of life”

Stephan De Potter, Marc Smit • Distributors, Cinéart

We head to the Netherlands and Belgium to speak to the pair of distributors about the particulars of working across the Benelux region  

30/09/2025 | Distributor of the Month

Agnieszka Rostropowicz • Director, Filmatura Literary Film Festival

“It’s a real celebration of cinema and literature”

Agnieszka Rostropowicz • Director, Filmatura Literary Film Festival

The festival head chats to us about her event and about how she wants to welcome an open-minded, curious audience  

29/09/2025 | /Poland

Laura Baumeister • Director of What Follows Is My Death

“We could say that talking about the ‘female gaze’ of women auteurs is another kind of narrative restraint”

Laura Baumeister • Director of What Follows Is My Death

We talked to the Nicaraguan director, a two-time winner of the DALE! (Latin America-Europe Development) Award at the Co-Production Forum, about her new project  

29/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | San Sebastián Industry

José Luis Guerín • Director of Good Valley Stories

“I can only conceive of filming out of affection”

José Luis Guerín • Director of Good Valley Stories

The filmmaker returns to the festival where he previously triumphed and talks about young directors, the human diversity that populates his new film and how...  

29/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Stroma Cairns, Imogen West • Director and producer of The Son and the Sea

“Other than being conscious of Jonah’s growing up without a father, we are both interested in the sort of lost boys of today”

Stroma Cairns, Imogen West • Director and producer of The Son and the Sea

The British filmmakers talk to us about their movie, which is both a reflection on young men today and an intimate, deeply personal family story  

29/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

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