Interviews

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

8636 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 11/02/2026. 634 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Leni Huyghe • Director of Real Faces

“Actors knew it was a fiction film, but they could choose to play themselves, a version of themselves, or invent a character”

Leni Huyghe • Director of Real Faces

In her debut feature, the Belgian director explores authenticity, vulnerability and emotional exposure  

05/02/2026 | Oostende 2026

Claude Schmitz • Director of Conrad & Crab – Idiotic Gems

"The investigative film is a pretext for telling the story of a region"

Claude Schmitz • Director of Conrad & Crab – Idiotic Gems

The Belgian director talks to us about his new film, a sort of sequel or spin-off to his previous film, The Other Laurens  

04/02/2026 | IFFR 2026 | Harbour

Itonje Søimer Guttormsen • Director of Butterfly

“‘How about Renate?’ my producer asked – to which I responded with an immediate rejection”

Itonje Søimer Guttormsen • Director of Butterfly

The Norwegian helmer enlightens us on performance art, Nordic family dysfunction and Renate Reinsve  

03/02/2026 | Göteborg 2026

Ben Voit • Director of Gropiusstadt Supernova

“I can’t sit isolated in a room and invent a story - I let myself be strongly influenced by people, by situations”

Ben Voit • Director of Gropiusstadt Supernova

The German director speaks about his first feature film, winner of the Best Feature Film award at the this year's Max Ophüls Prize  

02/02/2026 | Max Ophüls Prize 2026

Alli Haapasalo • Director of Tell Everyone

“The tragedy is that their freedom is taken away despite the beautiful surroundings”

Alli Haapasalo • Director of Tell Everyone

The Finnish director explains to us how she sees contemporary relevance in the story of psychiatric hospital resident Amanda Altonen  

02/02/2026 | Göteborg 2026

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

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