Interviews

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

8168 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 08/05/2025. 660 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“We have to remember the catastrophes in history so that we don’t make the same mistakes again”
Dāvis Sīmanis • Director of Maria’s SilenceBERLINALE 2024: The Latvian director discusses his exploration of Soviet Russia and the fate of its Baltic...  
20/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Forum
“From the beginning, I wanted to focus on an eclectic visual style”
Dāvis Sīmanis • Director of The Year Before the WarWe talked to the Latvian director, who presented his third feature film at the International Film Festival...  
10/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Big Screen Competition
“There has been almost no support for the culture industry in Bulgaria”
Emil Simeonov • Distributor, Pro FilmsEmil Simeonov, of Bulgarian distribution company Pro Films, explains to us the situation of the market in...  
07/07/2020 | /Bulgaria
“You have to be willing to let the film find its way”
León Siminiani • DirectorSAN SEBASTIÁN 2018: Spanish director León Siminiani has presented his new film, Notes For a Heist Film, a...  
01/10/2018 | San Sebastián 2018 | New Directors
“The biggest bank heist of all time while a civil war is unfolding”
Dries Phlypo and Antoine Simkine • Producers of HeistThe directors of Belgian outfit A Private View and of French company Les Films d’Antoine discuss the...  
25/03/2025 | Series Mania 2025 | Series Mania Forum
“Children helped and complemented each other with surprising professionalism”
Peeter Simm • Director of On the WaterWe spoke to veteran Estonian filmmaker Peeter Simm, who presented his new coming-of-age dramedy On the...  
30/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition
“Today’s audiences opt for digital animation for family films, whereas traditional animation is reserved for grown-ups”
Salvador Simó • Director of DragonkeeperThe Spanish co-director of the animated family flick, based on Carole Wilkinson’s book of the same name,...  
18/04/2024 | /Spain/China
“I learn a lot from the way that children look at film”
Carla Simón • DirectorBERLIN 2017: Summer 1993 is the title of Catalan filmmaker Carla Simón’s much-anticipated first...  
16/02/2017
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Carla Simón • Director of Alcarràs10/12/2022 | European Film Awards 2022
“In this film, it’s the men who cry”
Carla Simón • Director of AlcarràsBERLINALE 2022: The kids are alright in the film by the Spanish filmmaker, but the adults are a whole...  
16/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Competition
"I need to believe that my characters and my themes really matter to me"
Carla Simón  • Director of AlcarràsWe chatted to Catalan director Carla Simón to find out more about her Eurimages Award-winning upcoming and...  
14/03/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | EFM
‘My dear friend Mimi’
Claire SimonIn French director Claire Simon's documentary: "Mimi talks to me about her life, and I put her words into...  
07/02/2003
“It’s normal that you think your parents are a failure”
Claire Simon  • DirectorBERLIN 2018: Claire Simon discusses her hybrid doc Young Solitude, in which ten teenage students help her...  
22/02/2018 | Berlinale 2018 | Forum
“For women, who have been oppressed for centuries, it’s very difficult to speak out about their oppression”
Claire Simon • Director of I Want to Talk About DurasCineuropa talks with the French director about the nature of love, society’s obssesion with fame, and the...  
22/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition
"All the films are probably not for everybody"
Jean-Christophe Simon • Sales agent, Films BoutiqueBERLIN 2019: We chatted with Jean-Christophe Simon, sales agent at German-French company Films Boutique,...  
22/02/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | EFM
Shooting Stars 2004 - Germany
Maria Simon - actressGerman actress at the Shooting Star presentation in Berlin in 2004  

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