Interviews

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

8174 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 09/05/2025. 663 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“The idea was for the film not to enhance the beauty of the surroundings, but rather create the images as ruggedly as possible”
Francesco Sossai • Director of Other CannibalsThe Italian director mixes the topic of cannibalism with friendship and self-determination in his Black...  
29/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | First Feature Competition
“The ways in which documentaries reach their audiences are certainly not narrowing, but on the contrary, multiplying”
Matej Sotník  • Producer, guča filmsThe Slovakian professional thinks a documentary producer has to be open to a high degree of organicity in...  
20/03/2024 | Emerging Producers 2024
“Cinema is very often built on feelings, like music and poetry”
Philip Sotnychenko • Director of La PalisiadaThe Ukrainian director breaks down his film about two old friends, a police detective and a forensic...  
03/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Tiger Competition
"I wanted these women to reclaim the sheer complexity of their journeys, their battles and also their contradictions"
Lina Soualem  • Director of Bye Bye TiberiasVENICE 2023: The director paints the portrait of four generations of Palestininan women who keep their...  
08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori
"I needed to break that silence"
Lina Soualem  •​​ Director of Their AlgeriaLina Soualem tells us about her first feature film, the documentary Their Algeria, revealed and well...  
05/05/2020 | Visions du Réel 2020
"In Switzerland, production and filmmaking are going on and attention is being paid to quality"
Tiziana Soudani • ProducerAfter the great success in Cannes of The Wonders by Alice Rohrwacher, Tiziana Soudani is getting ready to...  
13/06/2014
European Distributors Up Next! 2010 – Greece
Irini Souganidou • Distributor, Feelgood Entertainment02/09/2010
“As people say, a tree without roots cannot grow; films are also parts of these roots”
Thierno Souleymane Diallo  • Director of The Cemetery of CinemaThe Guinean filmmaker is determined to find a lost movie, 1953’s Mouramani - or maybe even his own childhood  
16/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023
"A French touch for the international market"
Aton Soumache • Producer34 years old and founder of Onyx Films in 1996, Aton Soumache lives the producer’s life at break-neck speed  
07/03/2006
"Italian films are more appealing because they’re more realistic"
Gilles Sousa • Head of Sales, BAC FilmsBAC films sold Paolo Virzì’s Human Capital all around the globe and the sales agency now has the Italian...  
04/07/2016
Interview
Barnaby Southcombe • DirectorBarnaby Southcombe came to the Brussels Film Festival to present his new film I, Anna, which stars his own...  
“We just wanted to make a really dark film”
Radim Spacek  • DirectorInterview with a 36-year-old Czech director, a graduate of the famous FAMU Film School , who returns to...  
05/02/2010
An attentive and honest observation
Marina Spada • Director13/11/2006
Video - Venice Film Festival 2009, Venice Days
Marina Spada, director of Poesia che mi guardiPoesia che mi guardi is a reflection on poetry and its necessity, taking as its point of departure the...  
Producers on the Move 2011 - Sweden
Mimmi Spång • Garagefilm InternationalRebecka Lafrenz and Mimmi Spång are the producers behind Babak Najafi’s Sebbe, screening at this year’s...  
04/05/2011
"Italy isn't a hostile country, but we also thrive on falling in love unexpectedly"
Gianfranco Pannone, Ambrogio Sparagna  • Directors of Scherza con i fantiVENICE 2019: Gianfranco Pannone and Ambrogio Sparagna talk to us about their new documentary, the...  
01/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Giornate degli Autori

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