Interviews

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

8562 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 03/12/2025. 639 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Tamar Kalandadze, Julien Pebrel • Directors of The Kartli Kingdom

“The past is still in the walls of Kartli”

Tamar Kalandadze, Julien Pebrel • Directors of The Kartli Kingdom

The directorial duo break down their debut documentary feature, created as a testament to the exiled Georgians who have made a home out of an abandoned...  

26/11/2025 | IDFA 2025

Alex Noyer • Director of Love Is the Monster

“I wanted to make a horror for grown-ups”

Alex Noyer • Director of Love Is the Monster

With his new movie, the Paris-born director embraces his Finnish roots – and all the weirdness that comes with them  

26/11/2025 | /USA/Canada/Finland

Nikolaj Nikitin • Curator, Critics' Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

"To curate is to care — about stories, about voices, about the emotions we dare to show"

Nikolaj Nikitin • Curator, Critics' Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

We met up with the curator of the festival section, for whom cinema is not just entertainment, "it is urgency, emotion, and the bold insistence that our...  

26/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Critics' Picks

Javier Fuentes Feo • Director, Lanzarote Film Festival

“We are absolutely convinced that culture is essential”

Javier Fuentes Feo • Director, Lanzarote Film Festival

As the Canary Islands-based festival turns 15, its head – at the helm of a ship steered by a non-profit association – talks to us about this anniversary and...  

26/11/2025 | Lanzarote 2025

Pablo Berger • Director of Robot Dreams

“If you make films that come from your gut and that you believe in, you will find an audience”

Pablo Berger • Director of Robot Dreams

The Spanish director chats to us about how he feels to be the recipient of one of Zinebi’s Honorary Mikeldis this year, and about his Oscar-nominated...  

25/11/2025 | Zinebi 2025

Ali Vatansever • Director of LifeLike

"The human condition is much richer than stripped-down concepts of life"

Ali Vatansever • Director of LifeLike

The Turkish director shared with us why he celebrates life more than the concepts of it — and why audiences should experience their own feelings rather than...  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

Petter Næss • Director of No Comment

"This is a message to politicians: take yourselves and your job seriously"

Petter Næss • Director of No Comment

We chatted to the Norwegian director to discuss his sharp political satire, which casts politicians as adult children  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

Samuel Abrahams • Director of Lady

"My film deals with visibility and the longing to be seen"

Samuel Abrahams • Director of Lady

We spoke with the British director about the script and the meta structure of his gloriously oddball debut  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Hille Norden • Director of Easy Girl

"Talking helps, and listening heals"

Hille Norden • Director of Easy Girl

We sat down with the emerging German director to talk about her striking debut, a bold mix of sexuality, beauty and pain  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Artur Wyrzykowski • Director of This Is Not Happening

“All I really wanted, as a first-time feature film director, was a story that would be cheap from a production standpoint”

Artur Wyrzykowski • Director of This Is Not Happening

The Polish director reflected on crafting his contained thriller about parental desperation, and developing an upcoming comedy involving an android boyfriend  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Kat Steppe • Director of Sunday Ninth

“I know that when something is real, it has a direct impact”

Kat Steppe • Director of Sunday Ninth

The Belgian director breaks down how she bridged fiction and reality inside a fully operational care home  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Nabil Ben Yadir, Mokhtaria Badaoui • Directors of The Baronesses

"We have to assert our right to fiction"

Nabil Ben Yadir, Mokhtaria Badaoui • Directors of The Baronesses

The Belgian filmmaker co-directed his new movie with his mother, and the duo talk to us about this experience  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Rebels with a Cause

Christian Bonke • Director of Hercules Falling

"I hope that politicians will realise that it's expensive to turn a human being into a soldier, but that it also takes funds to convert a soldier back into a human being"

Christian Bonke • Director of Hercules Falling

The Danish director discusses blending fiction and reality to portray veterans’ PTSD and the masculinity barriers that keep many from seeking help  

25/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Abu Bakr Shawky • Director of The Stories

"Everybody is the hero of their own story"

Abu Bakr Shawky • Director of The Stories

We spoke to the Egyptian-Austrian filmmaker about portraying small people in big times, and the sacrifices needed to tell such a tale  

24/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

Laurent Micheli • Director of Nino in Paradise

"I liked the contrast between its nigh-on social-documentary side and its fictional lyricism"

Laurent Micheli • Director of Nino in Paradise

We sat down with the Belgian director, who’s returning with another story focusing on young people  

24/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Critics’ Picks

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