Interviews

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

8153 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 25/04/2025. 660 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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"We’re bolstering the industry days because they get more and more interesting all the time"
Alejandro Díaz Castaño  • Director, Gijón International Film FestivalJust a few days before the 57th Gijón International Film Festival kicks off, its director, journalist and...  
08/11/2019 | Gijón 2019
"Filmmakers want to premiere their movies at Gijón"
Alejandro Díaz Castaño  •  Director, Gijón International Film FestivalThis is Alejandro Díaz’s first year heading up the Gijón Film Festival as director; in this interview, he...  
17/11/2017
“This film is very Gijón means that it is fresh and has a modern narrative”
Alejandro Díaz Castaño  •  Festival Director Gijón International Film FestivalAlejandro Díaz Castaño explains the origins of the Gijón International Film Festival  
17/06/2024 | Euro Film Fest
"In the collective imaginary, a father who leaves home to fight is a hero, whereas a mother who does the same is irresponsible"
César Díaz • Director of Mexico 86We met with the Belgian-Guatemalan director who’s making his return with an spy film exploring the origins...  
10/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande
"I didn’t want to give a history lesson, I wanted to give history a human form"
Cesar Diaz • Director of Our MothersCANNES 2019: We met with Cesar Diaz, the Guatemalan director now settled in Belgium, whose first film, Our...  
21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics’ Week
“I consider my kind of filmmaking like writing a novel: I create real characters, the characters are fleshed out, and we see them living in the film”
Lav Diaz • Director of When the Waves Are GoneVENICE 2022: We spoke to the Filipino auteur – famous for his epic-length works – about his long-awaited...  
13/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Out of Competition
“Our initiative seeks to build peace and memory in countries that are still afflicted by war”
Paola Díaz • Filmmaker and co-director of the Historias en Kilómetros labThe director breaks down her experience at the most recent San Sebastián Film Festival, as part of the...  
28/03/2025 | /Latin America
“We should never take peace for granted”
Saul Dibb  • DirectorWe sat down with British director Saul Dibb to discuss his creative approach to adapting the WWI classic...  
09/10/2017
Shooting Star 2007 - UK
Kate Dickie • Actress17/01/2007
Focus on telling good stories
Uwe Dierks  • Producer, Boomtown Media02/12/2010
"We like to use our programme to explore what our relationships with love and with others say about us"
Maxime Dieu • Director general, Love International Film Festival MonsAs its 40th edition gets ready to open its doors on 7 March, the festival’s director general looks back on...  
04/03/2025 | Mons 2025
“We want to put Mons back on the festival map”
Maxime Dieu • General Delegate, Mons International Film FestivalCinergie met with Maxime Dieu, the new general delegate of the (new) Mons International Film Festival, to...  
15/02/2019
“You can laugh about the mafia”
Pierfrancesco Diliberto • DirectorPif, known for his satirical skits on television, talks about The Mafia Only Kills In Summer, his feature...  
20/11/2013
"What is really important is the energy that lies beneath the surface in people we work with"
Matthias Huser, Tolga Dilsiz  • Director, producerSAN SEBASTIÁN 2018: Director Matthias Huser and producer Tolga Dilsiz discuss The Jungle, which won the...  
01/10/2018 | San Sebastián 2018 | Industry
"I like to produce films that will point out the things we're all trying not to talk about"
Marija Dimitrova • Producer, List ProductionMacedonian Producer on the Move tells us about making her first feature film, the Karlovy Vary...  
16/05/2022 | Producers on the Move 2022/North Macedonia
“For me, it just seems natural to make documentaries about something I like”
Rasmus Dinesen  • Director of Michelin Stars II – Nordic by NatureKoks, one of the most remote Michelin-starred restaurants in the world, is the protagonist of the Danish...  
23/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Culinary Zinema

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