Interviews

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

8494 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 24/10/2025. 652 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Julian Radlmaier • Director of Phantoms of July

“Themes like immigration, loneliness, class and economic struggles are universal, and I hope the film resonates that way”

Julian Radlmaier • Director of Phantoms of July

The French-German director tells us more about the starting point for his new fiction feature as well as the main influences underpinning it  

11/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Hugo Latulippe  •  Director of Québec City Film Festival

“At Québec City Film Festival we like to connect citizenship and art”

Hugo Latulippe • Director of Québec City Film Festival

Hugo Latulippe explains the thematic focus of this year’s festival and what the festival puts into place regarding diversity in their film programme.  

11/08/2025 | Euro Film Fest

Kamal Aljafari • Director of With Hasan in Gaza

“As strange as it might sound, I still don’t remember having shot all this material”

Kamal Aljafari • Director of With Hasan in Gaza

The Palestinian director explains the peculiar circumstances which led to him turning some lost tapes of life in Gaza in the early 2000s into a film  

07/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Tamara Stepanyan • Director of In the Land of Arto

“I wanted to recall trauma gently, without actually showing the war”

Tamara Stepanyan • Director of In the Land of Arto

The Armenian-French director discusses her first fiction feature, sharing insights on the casting process and on how she weaves real-life elements into fiction  

07/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Piazza Grande

Giona A Nazzaro • Artistic director, Locarno Film Festival

“Today, Locarno is an indispensable observatory to understand where contemporary cinema is at”

Giona A Nazzaro • Artistic director, Locarno Film Festival

The artistic director of the Swiss gathering talked to us about this year’s programme and about the importance of building an offering that adequately...  

05/08/2025 | Locarno 2025

Sonora Broka  •  Artistic Director of Riga International Film Festival

“Film festivals are a celebration, it gives us the opportunity to meet and gather”

Sonora Broka • Artistic Director of Riga International Film Festival

Sonora Broka talks about shaping the film programme and the criteria that in her opinion makes for a good film to show at a festival.  

04/08/2025 | Euro Film Fest

Tilda Grossel Bogdanović • Director, Ponta Lopud Film Festival

"There are many competitive festivals, but we’re not part of that group"

Tilda Grossel Bogdanović • Director, Ponta Lopud Film Festival

We sat with the director of the Croatian festival to discuss their unique approach to small events with an accessible, high-profile guest list for young...  

31/07/2025 | /Croatia

Luigi Sales • Head of Content and Original Productions, Giffoni Innovation Hub

“We don’t make adverts, we make original content, entertainment, and edutainment projects”

Luigi Sales • Head of Content and Original Productions, Giffoni Innovation Hub

The expert discusses the role of the Giffoni Innovation Hub initiative, which is a key resource for audiovisual production and strategic planning aimed at...  

30/07/2025 | Giffoni 2025

Paul Wiegard and Vera Herchenbach • Distributors, Madman Entertainment

“European cinema, both fiction and documentary, represents roughly one third of our slate”

Paul Wiegard and Vera Herchenbach • Distributors, Madman Entertainment

The two Australian distributors dig deep into their work with European titles, and how their market is responding to industry and audience transformations  

29/07/2025 | Distributor of the Month

Christine Haroutounian • Director of After Dreaming

“The question of what constitutes the self is at the root of everything I make”

Christine Haroutounian • Director of After Dreaming

The director and artist of Armenian roots breaks down the origins of her film and explains how her powerful images and concepts came into being  

23/07/2025 | Golden Apricot 2025

Nikola Ležaić • Director of How Come It's All Green Out Here?

"We believe in our memory, but the only reality is the one we’re in right now"

Nikola Ležaić • Director of How Come It's All Green Out Here?

The Serbian director discusses his quiet, autobiographical road trip around a weekend across Dalmatia to re-bury his grandmother  

22/07/2025 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Bence Fliegauf and Barbara Bernáth • Director and producer of Jimmy Jaguar

"Jimmy Jaguar is a bodyless revenge demon looking for justice"

Bence Fliegauf and Barbara Bernáth • Director and producer of Jimmy Jaguar

The Hungarian director and producer discuss their film, a mixture of procedural realism with folk horror that blurs the boundary between reality and psyche  

22/07/2025 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Yelizaveta Smit, Eugene Rachkovsky • Director and producer of In Vacuo

“The war has taught us to adapt”

Yelizaveta Smit, Eugene Rachkovsky • Director and producer of In Vacuo

The Ukrainian filmmaker and producer discuss her fiction debut, a meditation on memory and absence set in Odesa, which won the Eurimages Special...  

21/07/2025 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | KVIFF Industry Days

Diana Caravia, Ștefan Bîtu-Tudoran • Producer and director of Battalion Records

“I’m going for a transgressive and sensorial type of cinema, where I try to blend comedy and horror in the same scene”

Diana Caravia, Ștefan Bîtu-Tudoran • Producer and director of Battalion Records

The producer and director of the winner of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at Karlovy Vary break down their project focusing on a group of...  

20/07/2025 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | KVIFF Industry Days

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  

18/07/2025 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2025

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