Interviews

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

8570 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 11/12/2025. 636 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

Radu Stancu, Mo Harawe, Francesco Capurro • Jurors, TFL Meeting Event

“The quality is outstanding, and I notice that many of the selected writers are very young, which is incredibly stimulating”

Radu Stancu, Mo Harawe, Francesco Capurro • Jurors, TFL Meeting Event

We interviewed three members of the different juries set to hand out the prizes at TorinoFilmLab’s 18th TFL Meeting Event, unspooling from 20-22 November  

21/11/2025 | TorinoFilmLab 2025

Stefanos Tsivopoulos • Director of Elena's Shift

"If silence is safety and finding your voice puts you at risk, what will you choose?"

Stefanos Tsivopoulos • Director of Elena's Shift

We spoke with the Greek filmmaker about his debut feature, is a story of reclaiming voice, agency and the right to belong  

21/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition

Richard Hawkins • Director of Think of England

"I wanted the audience to have the job of searching and finding the truth"

Richard Hawkins • Director of Think of England

With his sophomore feature, the British filmmaker Richard Hawkins returns after two decades with a biting, genre-defying satire  

21/11/2025 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

Lauris and Raitis Ābele • Directors of Dog of God

“In school, no one teaches us where our werewolf history comes from”

Lauris and Raitis Ābele • Directors of Dog of God

The filmmaker siblings discuss Livonian werewolf myths and how making a Latvian animation in the wake of Flow has affected them  

21/11/2025 | /Latvia/USA

Karin Junger • Director of The Pupil

“A child has conflicting feelings; he also feels loyalty towards the perpetrator”

Karin Junger • Director of The Pupil

The Belgian director talks to us about her new film, which deals with the sensitive topic of child sexual abuse, placing it in the context of a football club  

20/11/2025 | Lecce 2025

Eva Svenstedt Ward • Head of studies, TFL ScriptLab/Green Narratives

“Our ambition is to inspire filmmakers who have a story they want to tell, addressing the issues of our times in some way”

Eva Svenstedt Ward • Head of studies, TFL ScriptLab/Green Narratives

TorinoFilmLab has launched Green Narratives, a new call dedicated to stories addressing the transformations that characterise the contemporary world  

20/11/2025 | TorinoFilmLab 2025

Veronika Janatková • Programme director, Institute of Documentary Film

“Documentary film and art stand as a form of resistance against destructive trends, fostering critical thinking and engagement”

Veronika Janatková • Programme director, Institute of Documentary Film

The newly appointed director discusses how IDF is supporting filmmakers, fostering international collaboration, and strengthening documentary filmmaking as...  

20/11/2025 | Institute of Documentary Film 2025

Mehdi Fard Ghaderi • Director of Phase Space

"Machines could never replace imagination"

Mehdi Fard Ghaderi • Director of Phase Space

The Iranian filmmaker discusses his upcoming movie, a sci-fi title shot in Spanish, and shares his vision of a genre which he sees as a reflection of the...  

20/11/2025 | /Switzerland

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