Interviews

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

8507 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 10/11/2025. 645 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Andreas Öhman • Director of One Day All This Will Be Yours

“My aim is to speak as much to the cineaste audience as to my friends from my little home town”

Andreas Öhman • Director of One Day All This Will Be Yours

The Swedish helmer shares a few thoughts on the mixture of light and dark tones in his movie, and also how a personal family loss became a film  

02/02/2023 | Göteborg 2023

Zaida Carmona • Director of Girlfriends and Girlfriends

"It would be interesting if a straight person could have LGBTQI+ characters as role models"

Zaida Carmona • Director of Girlfriends and Girlfriends

We spoke to the Spanish director about her debut feature, an independent, deeply cinematic and proudly lesbian comedy  

01/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Bright Future

Martin Skovbjerg • Director of Copenhagen Does Not Exist

"Everyone sees something unique and relates differently to it"

Martin Skovbjerg • Director of Copenhagen Does Not Exist

We talked to the filmmaker about his film, how it depicts the power of memories and how grief alters our reality  

01/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Big Screen Competition

Max Gleschinski • Director of Alaska

"The two female protagonists are not so much saviours to each other but more travelling companions"

Max Gleschinski • Director of Alaska

The German director told us more about his feature film that tells a story of how to overcome loneliness and grief  

01/02/2023 | Max Ophüls Prize 2023

Abbe Hassan • Director of Exodus

“I really wanted the sense of humanity towards others to come through in the film”

Abbe Hassan • Director of Exodus

We chatted to the director of the Göteborg opener about the movie and about his own life journey so far  

01/02/2023 | Göteborg 2023

Giovanni Bucchieri • Director of 100 Seasons

“We all grew to be like a family during the making of the film”

Giovanni Bucchieri • Director of 100 Seasons

We spoke with the filmmaker, artist and dancer about his very personal film which is a portrait and a love story at the same time  

31/01/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Tiger Competition

Dominique Deruddere  • Director of The Chapel

"Is talent a blessing or a curse?"

Dominique Deruddere • Director of The Chapel

We met with the Belgian director who’s back with a new feature film rife with dramatic tension  

31/01/2023 | /Belgium

Lukas Nathrath • Director of One Last Evening

"We were craving distraction and adventure"

Lukas Nathrath • Director of One Last Evening

We talked to the German filmmaker about his first feature film shot in a rush during the pandemic and which conveys a feeling of being lost and loneliness  

31/01/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Tiger Competition

Adura Onashile • Director of Girl

"I didn't want to do any sensationalisation or dramatisation"

Adura Onashile • Director of Girl

We talked to the Glasgow-based filmmaker about her directorial debut, a very intimate portrait of the relationship of a mother to her daughter  

31/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Mia Engberg • Director of Hypermoon

“The audience deserves to be free of me now”

Mia Engberg • Director of Hypermoon

We asked the Swedish director just how personal she wanted to get in part three of her celebrated Belleville trilogy  

31/01/2023 | Göteborg 2023

Jessica Woodworth • Director of Luka

“Sometimes it feels like we haven’t learned anything”

Jessica Woodworth • Director of Luka

We met with the Belgian-American director, who presents a free and inspired adaptation of the cult novel by Dino Buzzati  

30/01/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Big Screen Competition

Henrik M Dahlsbakken • Director of Munch

“We don't know the man behind the art, even though, not only for Norway, he is a big part of our cultural heritage"

Henrik M Dahlsbakken • Director of Munch

We talked to the director about the big gap that exists between our knowledge of the art and of the life of Edvard Munch  

30/01/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Limelight

Alexia Muíños Ruiz • Director of programmes, European Women’s Audiovisual Network

“There is a need for a more thorough approach to funding women’s projects”

Alexia Muíños Ruiz • Director of programmes, European Women’s Audiovisual Network

In Trieste, we discussed the EWA Mentoring Programme for producers and how the landscape has changed in the ten years since EWA was founded  

27/01/2023 | Trieste 2023 | WEMW

Andrei Tănase • Director of Day of the Tiger

“Shooting with animals is never simple, but shooting with animals that can kill you in seconds is just next-level”

Andrei Tănase • Director of Day of the Tiger

We talked to the Romanian first-time director about strong characters and actors that can gobble up directors in no time at all  

27/01/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Bright Future

Roman Liubyi • Director of Iron Butterflies

“MH17 is, in my opinion, one of the reasons why a full-scale invasion began”

Roman Liubyi • Director of Iron Butterflies

We chatted to the Ukrainian director about the background to his film devoted to investigating the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in the Donetsk region  

27/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

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