Interviews

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

9036 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 23/09/2026. 611 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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Satire transcends history

Gabriel Achim • Director

The director/writer/producer talks about his debut feature Adalbert’s Dream and how Romanian history looks...  

08/06/2011

Gabriel Achim • Director of Snowing Darkness

"As a child, I daydreamed about killing Nicolae Ceauşescu"

Gabriel Achim • Director of Snowing Darkness

The Romanian director discusses the premises of probably his most personal and cryptic film to date  

18/07/2022 | /Romania

Naëmi Ada • Director of Body of Glass

“There is always a lot of truth in every untruth she creates”

Naëmi Ada • Director of Body of Glass

The German filmmaker discusses her feature debut, the boundary between performance and truth, and the...  

23/09/2026 | San Sebastián 2026 | New Directors

Sahraa Karimi and Wanda Adamík Hrycová • Director and producer of Flight from Kabul

"We're going to make this film for the women of Afghanistan and for a free Afghanistan"

Sahraa Karimi and Wanda Adamík Hrycová • Director and producer of Flight from Kabul

The director and the producer discuss their project, which follows an Afghan filmmaker whose wedding plans...  

10/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

Wanda Adamik Hrycová • Producer, Wandal Production

“Cross-country cooperation also pushes you out of your comfort zone”

Wanda Adamik Hrycová • Producer, Wandal Production

The producer talks the role of independent funding in revitalising Slovak film post-2013, her experiences...  

10/05/2024 | Producers on the Move 2024

Weronika Adamowska  • Co-founder and programmer, HER Docs Forum

“We don’t want to create another unnecessary event”

Weronika Adamowska • Co-founder and programmer, HER Docs Forum

The co-founder and programmer of the HER Docs initiative explains how she aims to connect female...  

17/08/2023 | /Poland

Piotr Adamski  • Director of Eastern

“I was curious to see if terms such as ‘honorary code’ or ‘vendetta’ were still important and understandable in our contemporary world”

Piotr Adamski • Director of Eastern

We talked to writer-director Piotr Adamski, whose feature debut, Eastern, has been out in Polish cinemas...  

04/08/2020 | /Poland

Mario Adamson  • Producer, Sisyfos Film Production

“There is no going back to the old ways”

Mario Adamson • Producer, Sisyfos Film Production

The Swedish producer, selected for the 2021 Emerging Producers programme, discussed documentary production...  

17/02/2021 | Emerging Producers 2021

Maren Ade  • Director

"I wanted to show the intricacies of a father-daughter relationship"

Maren Ade • Director

CANNES 2016: German director Maren Ade talks about her audacious family and social comedy Toni Erdmann, an...  

16/05/2016

“A delicate psychological dramaturgy”

Maren Ade • Director

Maren Ade is a german director, scriptwriter and producer. She was born in Karlsruhe in 1976  

11/06/2009

Argen Adil Uulu • Festival director, Bishkek International Film Festival

“Our goal is to support projects at every stage of the filmmaking cycle”

Argen Adil Uulu • Festival director, Bishkek International Film Festival

The head of the Kyrgyz gathering discusses its fourth edition, its role as a Central Asian industry hub,...  

04/06/2026 | Bishkek 2026

Argen Adil Uulu • Festival director, Bishkek International Film Festival

“We realised that we could be more than just another event; we could become a platform shaping a new regional system”

Argen Adil Uulu • Festival director, Bishkek International Film Festival

The head of the Kyrgyz gathering unpacks this year’s programme and the event’s growing industry impact...  

11/06/2025 | Bishkek 2025

Tom Adjibi • Director of This Is Not a French Film

"Calling out racism while realising you may have perpetuated it yourself is deeply confronting"

Tom Adjibi • Director of This Is Not a French Film

We chat to the filmmaker and actor, whose debut feature is a docufiction that probes the latent (or not)...  

15/09/2026 | BRIFF 2026

Yuval Adler • Director

Venice Days 2013

Yuval Adler • Director

Arab-Israeli conflict is at the heart of Israeli director Yuval Adler’s feature debut Bethlehem, which is...  

29/08/2013

Shalini Adnani • Director of Our Share of Sand

"I tried to look at the microcosm of a family and how it reflects society"

Shalini Adnani • Director of Our Share of Sand

VENICE 2026: The filmmaker recounts the unique journey of her debut feature, which teeters between the...  

06/09/2026 | Venice 2026 | International Film Critics’ Week

Katja Adomeit

Producers on the Move 2015 – Denmark

Katja Adomeit

Danish, German-born producer Katja Adomeit started making short films on shoestring budgets – now she is a...  

13/05/2015

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