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Weekly feature introducing you to film professionals from all over Europe sorted by name.
7796 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 23/09/2024. 604 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.
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"As my background is in cinematography, it was hard to let someone else shoot it"
The Georgian cinematographer-turned-director talks about his feature directorial debut, a production for...
13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente
“A moving human story, with an important environmental message”
Macedonia's Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, who are visiting the 4th Nuoro IsReal Festival, spoke...
10/05/2019 | Docaviv 2019
“We have a number of new animation productions and studios which arose out of nothing but their own desire for existence and creativity”
The current president of the Association of Czech Animation Film breaks down the state of the Czech...
13/04/2021 | /Czech Republic
“It’s very hard to find a distributor for art-house films”
Interview with Jitka Kotrlová, producer for Czech company Frame Films and selected for the 2020 Emerging...
27/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020
“I want to give people a voice, rather than giving them a face and representing them visually”
In his film, shot in Armenia, the German director leads us on a journey through a shaken and scarred landscape
26/04/2023 | Visions du Réel 2023
"Driven by strong female characters"
Black Ice as described by its director, whose career is on the rise after his multiple award-winning debut...
01/03/2008
“Home is something we find inside ourselves”
Austrian director Tereza Kotyk talks to us about her debut feature film, Home is Here, in competition at...
11/04/2017
Video interview - Athens International Film Festival
Jan Kounen - director of Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
“The dodo shows what man is capable of: he’s capable of exterminating anything and everything”
CANNES 2022: The Greek director discusses the significance of the titular bird and using family as one of...
30/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Cannes Première
“Everything has to feel true to me”
BERLINALE 2023: The Finnish director told us about her feature debut and her desire to see a more truthful...
25/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Encounters
“It's an intimate reminiscence, especially from the perspective of this new pandemic, about events from the early 1970s”
We delve into how COVID-19 inspired the documentary director to make a film about the 1972 smallpox...
15/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima
"I wanted to make a film about the complexities of the real China"
We chatted to Serbian filmmaker Mladen Kovačević, whose latest documentary, Merry Christmas, Yiwu, has...
28/01/2020 | IFFR 2020 | Bright Future
"There is a very loose connection to Dante in this film, to the Divine Comedy, which for me is the story of an existential crisis"
VENICE 2024: The Serbian director paints the portrait of a diverse array of people in search of happiness...
11/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori
"This is the inside story of the workers who took over a machine tool plant"
The filmmaker discusses his documentary, which portrays the story of Croatian factory ITAS, a bitter...
23/08/2021 | Sarajevo 2021 | Documentary Competition
“The desperate search for our humanity and dignity is something we will never abandon”
Hungarian filmmaker István Kovács talked to us about his short film A Siege, which prepares to screen as...
25/06/2019 | Future Frames 2019
“It takes a long time to be able to address trauma and how it influences everything”
We sat down with Danish director Susanne Kovács to discuss her first feature-length documentary, It Takes...
24/01/2020 | Göteborg 2020
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