Interviews

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Mario Bova • Director, Euro Balkan Film Festival

“The festival offers audiences a selection of testimonies that move from the anguish of war towards hope for the future”

Mario Bova • Director, Euro Balkan Film Festival

The festival director discusses how cinema can help heal the wounds of memory, and his goal of building bridges between the Balkans and Western Europe

01/10/2025 | /Italy

Harris Dickinson • Director of Urchin

“They’re definitely very separate for me, the roles of director and actor”

Harris Dickinson • Director of Urchin

The rising star, both in front of and behind the camera, talks us through his hard-hitting directorial debut, about a young rough sleeper in the midst of a...

01/10/2025 | Dinard 2025

Stephan De Potter, Marc Smit • Distributors, Cinéart

“We try to select films that provide meaning and open people’s eyes to certain realities of life”

Stephan De Potter, Marc Smit • Distributors, Cinéart

We head to the Netherlands and Belgium to speak to the pair of distributors about the particulars of working across the Benelux region

30/09/2025 | Distributor of the Month

Agnieszka Rostropowicz • Director, Filmatura Literary Film Festival

“It’s a real celebration of cinema and literature”

Agnieszka Rostropowicz • Director, Filmatura Literary Film Festival

The festival head chats to us about her event and about how she wants to welcome an open-minded, curious audience

29/09/2025 | /Poland

Laura Baumeister • Director of What Follows Is My Death

“We could say that talking about the ‘female gaze’ of women auteurs is another kind of narrative restraint”

Laura Baumeister • Director of What Follows Is My Death

We talked to the Nicaraguan director, a two-time winner of the DALE! (Latin America-Europe Development) Award at the Co-Production Forum, about her new project

29/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | San Sebastián Industry

José Luis Guerín • Director of Good Valley Stories

“I can only conceive of filming out of affection”

José Luis Guerín • Director of Good Valley Stories

The filmmaker returns to the festival where he previously triumphed and talks about young directors, the human diversity that populates his new film and how...

29/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Stroma Cairns, Imogen West • Director and producer of The Son and the Sea

“Other than being conscious of Jonah’s growing up without a father, we are both interested in the sort of lost boys of today”

Stroma Cairns, Imogen West • Director and producer of The Son and the Sea

The British filmmakers talk to us about their movie, which is both a reflection on young men today and an intimate, deeply personal family story

29/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Alice Winocour, Louis Garrel • Director of and actor in Couture

“The film is really about this immediate connection you can have with someone coming from another world”

Alice Winocour, Louis Garrel • Director of and actor in Couture

The director and actor share their understanding of the movie’s intricate themes of body politics, sexuality and finding connections in seemingly different...

26/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Emilie Thalund • Director of Weightless

“I really wanted to take this young girl seriously, and to actually make her a complex person, like all of us are”

Emilie Thalund • Director of Weightless

The Danish filmmaker chatted to us about her first feature film, a coming-of-age story about a girl who spends her first summer away from home at a health...

26/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Olmo Omerzu • Director of Ungrateful Beings

“The drama in the film is based around white lies, but then lies become bigger and darker”

Olmo Omerzu • Director of Ungrateful Beings

The Czech filmmaker challenges the limits of what’s right and wrong in the story of two separated fathers who struggle to save their older teenage...

26/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

José Alayón • Director of Dance of the Living

“In Canarian wrestling, I saw a metaphor for life, resilience and the personal conflicts we all live through”

José Alayón • Director of Dance of the Living

The director talks about the origins, challenges and metaphors of his second feature, built around the traditional sport of the Canary Islands

26/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

GoCritic! Interview: Martinus Klemet • Director, short film Yummy

"When I converted the text into visuals, it became more humorous and softer"

GoCritic! Interview: Martinus Klemet • Director, short film Yummy

Estonian animator Martinus Klemet discusses metaphors and visual identity as well as collaborating with the Oscars-shortlisted production company AAA Creative

GoCritic! Interview: Martin Vandas • Producer and founder, MAUR Film

"It's necessary to keep the audience as a part of our artistic responsibility"

GoCritic! Interview: Martin Vandas • Producer and founder, MAUR Film

The Czech producer discusses the producer-animator chemistry and the current state of funding in European animation, and previews upcoming projects

György Pálfi • Director of Hen

“I needed to place this small creature in a grand human tragedy and see what would happen when those two worlds collided”

György Pálfi • Director of Hen

The Hungarian director tells us about the risky venture of making a highly creative film where the main protagonist is a hen roaming the world of humans

25/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

Malika Rabahallah • Director, Filmfest Hamburg

“It’s important to present films that give us hope and show that it makes sense to keep fighting for community, solidarity and democracy”

Malika Rabahallah • Director, Filmfest Hamburg

The festival director outlines her approach to making the gathering more vibrant and international, with a strong focus on networking opportunities

25/09/2025 | Hamburg 2025

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