Interviews

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

8631 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 07/02/2026. 638 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Simone Manetti • Director of Giulio Regeni - Tutto il male del mondo

“Our job was to lay all the cards down on the table, but also to tell a story which would stir up emotions”

Simone Manetti • Director of Giulio Regeni - Tutto il male del mondo

The director chatted to us about his documentary dedicated to the young Italian researcher killed in Egypt in 2016, which is based on court proceedings,...  

02/02/2026 | Italy

Wregas Bhanuteja • Director of Levitating

“Unfortunately, people can become so obsessed with their own standards of happiness that they end up oppressing others who live differently”

Wregas Bhanuteja • Director of Levitating

The Indonesian director discussed his personal approach to spirituality, fictionalising trance rituals and future projects  

30/01/2026 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Moshe Rosenthal • Director of Tell Me Everything

“I wanted to give my own vision of that time – one infused with memory and trauma, not nostalgia”

Moshe Rosenthal • Director of Tell Me Everything

The filmmaker discusses his second feature, his personal link to its story and to its music and the reason he set most of it in the 1980s  

30/01/2026 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Nicolas Steiner • Director of Do You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?

“Funding constraints force you to be creative - what started as a limitation became a strength”

Nicolas Steiner • Director of Do You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?

The director talks about his German-Swiss co-production, and about its cast and production conditions  

30/01/2026 | Max Ophüls Prize 2026

Myrsini Aristidou • Director of Hold Onto Me

“Cyprus itself is very quiet, and that emptiness forces you to look inwards – that energy was important for the film”

Myrsini Aristidou • Director of Hold Onto Me

The Cypriot director breaks down her quiet and sensitive coming-of-age drama about a girl who reunites with her father after many years  

30/01/2026 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Molly Manners • Director of Extra Geography

“My film is like a slightly warped, uniquely British take on the high-school movie genre”

Molly Manners • Director of Extra Geography

The director speaks about her all-female coming-of-age story, centring on a tech-free friendship and treating love like an academic subject  

30/01/2026 | Sundance 2026 | Word Cinema Dramatic Competition

Erik Bernasconi • Director of Becaària

“What most struck me was the niggling malaise of adolescence”

Erik Bernasconi • Director of Becaària

The Swiss director chatted with us about his latest feature film, the mysterious beauty of adolescence and the importance of protecting Italian-language...  

30/01/2026 | Solothurn 2026

Benoît Goncerut • Director of Be Boris

"I didn't want a classic narrative; I found it interesting to explore a more ambiguous trajectory, even a descent"

Benoît Goncerut • Director of Be Boris

The Swiss director talks to us about his first feature film, the complexity and tenderness of his character, and his very particular sense of humour  

30/01/2026 | Solothurn 2026

Gabriela Bussmann, Yan Decoppet • Producers of Tropical Malaise

"Between resistance, solidarity and visual power, the film is a vibrant testament to resilience and cultural survival"

Gabriela Bussmann, Yan Decoppet • Producers of Tropical Malaise

The driving forces behind Swiss company GoldenEgg Production shed light on their project, which is directed by Jorge Cadena and which scooped the Coprocity...  

29/01/2026 | Coprocity 2025

Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić • Directors of To Hold a Mountain

“We thought this place was calling out for a film, but we knew from the very first moment that it wouldn’t be an activist film”

Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić • Directors of To Hold a Mountain

The two directors trace the moving story of a mother and daughter on the Montenegrin mountain of Sinjajevina, where the political and the intimate are...  

29/01/2026 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Marcus Carlsson • Director of The Quiet Beekeeper

“I have no connection to bees, but I certainly got educated along the way”

Marcus Carlsson • Director of The Quiet Beekeeper

The promising Swedish director discusses his humanistic tale about bees, their keeper and his family – a story with which he has several personal connections  

29/01/2026 | Göteborg 2026

Andrius Blaževičius • Director of How to Divorce During the War

“I wanted to create space for the viewer to think about what is happening and about what they would have done in this situation”

Andrius Blaževičius • Director of How to Divorce During the War

The writer-director mulls creative collaborations and finding the appropriate distance from which to reflect on the war in Ukraine – through a sharp...  

28/01/2026 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Vanja Kaludjercic • Director, International Film Festival Rotterdam

“Our programme doesn’t simply mirror reality as framed by existing power structures; it proposes other, fairer and more imaginative ways of living”

Vanja Kaludjercic • Director, International Film Festival Rotterdam

The IFFR head describes the upcoming edition as a meeting point between emerging voices, returning auteurs and films that challenge dominant narratives  

27/01/2026 | IFFR 2026

Visar Morina • Director of Shame and Money

“If everything becomes exchanged in terms of money, the first thing that dies will be what we call being human”

Visar Morina • Director of Shame and Money

The Kosovo-born director breaks down his third feature, which sees an older couple from the countryside forced to keep pace in an uber-commodified urban present  

27/01/2026 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Sakaris Stórá • Director of The Last Paradise on Earth

“In Faroese, we have a word for ‘longing for the bigger world’ that I don’t think other languages have”

Sakaris Stórá • Director of The Last Paradise on Earth

We sat down with the filmmaker to discuss his newest work amidst the landscape of a burgeoning Faroese film culture and industry  

27/01/2026 | Tromsø 2026

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