Interviews

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8165 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 07/05/2025. 664 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“There’s a powerful urge to create after these overwhelming times of isolation and sitting with your thoughts”
Ninna Pálmadóttir  • Director of All Dogs DieAs the Icelandic-born director prepares for European Film Promotion’s Future Frames, held as part of...  
21/08/2021 | Future Frames 2021
"Friendship is at the heart of the story"
Ninna Pálmadóttir  • Director of SolitudeThe Icelandic filmmaker discusses her debut feature film, written by Rúnar Rúnarsson and centred on the...  
14/11/2023 | Arras 2023
”I must have 100% control in order to be creative”
Hlynur Pálmason • DirectorLOCARNO 2017: We met up with Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason, who has presented Winter Brothers  
09/08/2017 | Locarno 2017 | Competition 
"I wanted to explore how it is to love and hate someone at the same time"
Hlynur Pálmason  • Director of A White, White DayCANNES 2019: Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason visits Cannes with his second feature A White, White Day,...  
19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics' Week
“My main actor lost twelve kilos, I think, and really took it seriously - I was so happy to see his physical decay”
Hlynur Pálmason • Director of GodlandCANNES 2022: The Icelandic director, who lived in Denmark, brings together some conflicting energies of...  
26/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard
"A strange love story where love is the biggest obstacle to death"
Nicole Palo • DirectorVENICE 2018: Belgian-American director Nicole Palo talked to us about Emma Peeters, the closing film of...  
10/09/2018 | Venice 2018 | Giornate degli Autori
“The proximity of a death places us in another place in our own lives”
Pilar Palomero • Director of GlimmersIn her third film, the Spanish filmmaker touches on accompaniment in illness and how she brought the...  
23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition
“It’s painful to see such a young girl experiencing something which isn’t suited to her age”
Pilar Palomero • Director of La maternalThe Spanish director presents her second film after the award-winning work Schoolgirls, this time...  
20/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | Competition
“Throughout the shooting, with my actresses, I felt like a little kid again”
Pilar Palomero  • Director of SchoolgirlsPilar Palomero premiered her first film, Schoolgirls , at the Berlin Film Festival, and is now the clear...  
27/08/2020 | Málaga 2020
"This young woman spoke out and reported things, but she wasn’t listened to"
Jessica Palud • Director of Being MariaCANNES 2024: The French filmmaker spoke to us about her movie charting the tragic fate of actress Maria...  
23/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Cannes Premiere
“We love using films as inspiration for creative and innovative marketing campaigns”
Ioanna Panagiotidou • Distributor, Rosebud.21The distributor spoke about her outfit’s business model, two recent successful campaigns and the...  
24/10/2024 | Distributor of the Month
"It is easier to convince people to go to an open space so Greece has fewer problems"
Ioanna Panagiotidou  • Distributor, Rosebud.21We caught up with Ioanna Panagiotidou, head of distribution at Greek outfit Rosebud.21, to discuss the...  
13/08/2020 | /Greece
Producer on the Move 2010 – Slovakia
Silvia Panáková05/05/2010
“Each film is different and needs to be approached individually”
Silvia Panáková  • Producer, ARINA Film ProductionThe 2022 Emerging Producer from Slovakia talks about how she selects the documentaries to produce and the...  
15/03/2022 | Emerging Producers 2022
“My proudest achievement this year is that out of the 16 films in the competition, we've got six made by women”
Shivani Pandya Malhotra • Managing director, Red Sea Film FoundationDuring our chat, we zoomed in on the collaboration between Europe and the Arab region, and how the Red Sea...  
10/12/2024 | Red Sea 2024 | Red Sea Souk
“Horror has always been part of our culture, but now it’s on a different scale”
Adrian Panek  • Director of WerewolfWe chatted to Polish director Adrian Panek about the making of his movie Werewolf, which won two awards at...  
05/12/2018 | Black Nights 2018 | Competition

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