Interviews

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

8330 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 24/07/2025. 665 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Dominika Braná   •  Industry coordinator of Serial Killer International Festival of TV and Web series

“Serial Killer is very young but impactful festival which focuses on building the bridge between east and west series production”

Dominika Braná • Industry coordinator of Serial Killer International Festival of TV and Web series

Dominika Braná explains how they build the festival’s programme and how they finance the event  

09/12/2022 | Euro Film Fest

Fatmir Koci • Director of The Rise & Fall Of Comrade Zylo

"This impossible love story set during the Albanian dictatorship chimes with today"

Fatmir Koci • Director of The Rise & Fall Of Comrade Zylo

The Albanian filmmaker discusses his comedy reflecting the dark side of the common history in Eastern Europe  

09/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics' Picks

Frédéric Boyer • Artistic Director, Les Arcs Film Festival

"You have to stand out from the crowd, take risks"

Frédéric Boyer • Artistic Director, Les Arcs Film Festival

The selector of the Alpine festival sheds light on the Work in Progress event which is unspooling on 11 December within the Industry Village programme  

09/12/2022 | Les Arcs 2022

Alex Shiriaieff  • Head of operations at B2B Doc - Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network

“B2B Doc - Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network is an unique organization to co-produce the documentaries and help filmmakers in all possible means in 6 Eastern Partnership countries”

Alex Shiriaieff • Head of operations at B2B Doc - Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network

In this interview, Alex Shiriaieff talks about the organisation’s main objective which is to support the development and distribution of projects in the...  

09/12/2022 | Euro Film Fest

Ángeles Huerta • Director of The Open Body

“My film can have a queer interpretation in the way it reflects on gender as something performative”

Ángeles Huerta • Director of The Open Body

We chatted to the Spanish filmmaker about her first foray into fiction, a rural tale shrouded in a Gothic atmosphere, starring Spaniard Tamar Novas and...  

08/12/2022 | /Spain/Portugal

Barbara Cupisti • Director of Hotel Sarajevo

“The archive images we’d just seen were the same as the ones which were starting to come out of the Ukraine and circulating on social media”

Barbara Cupisti • Director of Hotel Sarajevo

We met with the Italian director at the Balkan Film Festival in Rome to talk about her documentary about the thirtieth anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo...  

08/12/2022 | /Italy

GoCritic! Interview: Sander Joon  • Director of Sierra

“The attention Sierra has received is really shocking”

GoCritic! Interview: Sander Joon • Director of Sierra

Sara Šabec chatted with Estonian animator Sander Joon whose film Sierra has continued its impressive prize-winning streak with the Grand Prix and Audience...  

08/12/2022 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2022

Mona J Hoel • Director of Night

"I developed this story out of my own experience of domestic violence"

Mona J Hoel • Director of Night

The Norwegian director discusses her newest feature, which portrays the struggles of a married woman who is forced to travel to the faraway place where her...  

01/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Ivan Gergolet • Director of The Man Without Guilt

"The way out of revenge, of being hurt and feeling devastated, is forgiveness"

Ivan Gergolet • Director of The Man Without Guilt

The Italian filmmaker talks about his first feature, which follows the journey through loss and suffering of a widow of a worker who died from an...  

01/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | First Feature Competition

Carol Morley • Director of Typist Artist Pirate King

“It was impossible to make an ordinary film about such an extraordinary woman”

Carol Morley • Director of Typist Artist Pirate King

British artist Audrey Amiss was recognised only after her death, thanks to filmmaker Carol Morley, who made a movie about her and disclosed some interesting...  

01/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics’ Picks

Nikolaj Nikitin • Head programmer, Critics’ Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

“I believe in focused and high-quality curating with diverse representation”

Nikolaj Nikitin • Head programmer, Critics’ Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

We caught up with the head programmer of PÖFF’s brand-new strand dedicated to powerful and artistically outstanding works that might otherwise be overlooked  

01/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics’ Picks

Jean-François Le Corre • Producer, Vivement Lundi !

"The stop-motion revival is a global phenomenon"

Jean-François Le Corre • Producer, Vivement Lundi !

The head of the French company analyses the powerful comeback of stop-motion animation, to which Unifrance is dedicating a focus for the very first time...  

01/12/2022 | /France

Annamaria Scaramella • Director, Márgenes Festival

“Many of the sessions, both film and music, sold out; the festival is gaining new audiences, among them many young people”

Annamaria Scaramella • Director, Márgenes Festival

The festival director told us about the challenges of launching a new edition of Márgenes/Work and what the gathering’s objectives are for next year  

30/11/2022 | Márgenes 2022

Marko Šantić • Director of Wake Me

"My lead character’s fate is a sort of metaphor for the revisionism of history in the Balkans, but also in Europe"

Marko Šantić • Director of Wake Me

The Slovenian director talks about his fourth feature, a film about redemption and the relations between Slovenians and immigrants from other parts of...  

30/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics' Picks

Gentian Koçi • Director of A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On

"This story and these characters, who are forced to invent a completely new language, challenged me in my use of film language"

Gentian Koçi • Director of A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On

The Albanian director discusses his film, which follows two identical deaf-mute twin brothers who discover they will also progressively and irreversibly...  

30/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

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