Interviews

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8160 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 05/05/2025. 661 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Video - Venice Film Festival 2009, Venice Days
Interview with Signe Baumane, director of Teat Beat of SexSigne Baumane presented at the Venice days Teat Beat of Sex, a 15 one-minute animated shorts episodes...  
“The reason I make films is to communicate with people”
Signe Baumane  • DirectorCineuropa spoke with Latvian animator Signe Baumane, who recently screened her first feature film, Rocks...  
26/02/2015
“I do appreciate crowdfunding because it makes the journey of animating for seven years less lonely”
Signe Baumane • Director of My Love Affair With MarriageThe Latvian animator talks about her latest feature, which sets an examination of female rebellion within...  
15/06/2022 | Tribeca 2022
“We produce a lot of movies, but the funding system doesn’t give filmmakers so much creative freedom”
Simone Baumann  • Managing director, German FilmsAs the Cannes Film Festival kicks off, German Films’ managing director, Simone Baumann, discusses the...  
14/05/2019 | Cannes 2019
“This will be the first fiction film directed by a Nicaraguan woman”
Laura Baumeister  • Director of Daughter of RageWe interviewed Nicaraguan director Laura Baumeister, who has just been awarded the EFADs–CAACI...  
30/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | San Sebastián Industry
"We were focused on how to understand the development of Jonas’s spiral of violence"
Hannes Baumgartner  • DirectorSAN SEBASTIÁN 2018: We spoke to Swiss director Hannes Baumgartner, who explained to us how he built the...  
25/09/2018 | San Sebastián 2018 | New Directors
“I don’t give a shit about categories; ultimately, every idea fits a format”
Piet Baumgartner • Director of Bagger DramaThe Swiss visual artist and director gives us the low-down on his first fiction feature, which he...  
02/10/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors
"Environmental film festivals are important, they are a necessity and they help to raise awareness"
David Baute  • Artistic Director, FICMECThe head of the programme of the International Environmental Film Festival of the Canary Islands talks...  
17/11/2023 | /Spain
“Our festival and market are a cultural crossroads”
David Baute  • Director, MiradasDocThe documentary film festival in Guía de Isora (Tenerife), a creative and production-orientated bridge...  
07/03/2022 | MiradasDoc 2022
“I’m a lover of the fantastic”
Lamberto Bava • DirectorWe chatted to the seasoned Italian director, who is the headline retrospective guest at Finland’s Night...  
04/04/2025 | Night Visions 2025
“We are all Lauras”
Dimitris Bavellas  • Director of In the Strange Pursuit of Laura DurandWe chatted to Greek director Dimitris Bavellas, who, in his second film, In the Strange Pursuit of Laura...  
29/11/2019 | Black Nights 2019 | Competition
“We were fascinated by the (almost empty) phrase ‘finding yourself’ and the kind of people who preach this”
Glen Bay Grant • Director of True MirrorThe Danish director comes to EFP’s Future Frames at the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for...  
27/08/2021 | Future Frames 2021
“Through fiction, we try to give meaning to reality”
JA Bayona  • Director of Society of the SnowVENICE 2023: The Spanish helmer delves into the intricacies of his new project, telling the story of...  
11/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Out of Competition
“A director needs to seek out and reveal the truth”
Juan Antonio Bayona  • DirectorSAN SEBASTIÁN 2016: J.A. Bayona, director of The Impossible, has premiered his third film, A Monster...  
22/09/2016
“I wanted to tell what the news did not show”
Juan Antonio Bayona • DirectorThe second film by the director of The Orphanage is a production of great technical difficulty that...  
05/10/2012
"André Téchiné's errant mother"
Emmanuelle Béart • ActressA meeting with the French star of Les Egarés, set in 1940. "I prepared for this role by talking to my...  
22/05/2003

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