Interviews

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

8298 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 07/07/2025. 653 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Tetyana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko • Directors of Everything Needs to Live

"It's difficult to make a film when you see your homes being destroyed and loved ones killed, but having a mission and seeing how Anna kept going helped us stay sane"

Tetyana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko • Directors of Everything Needs to Live

The Ukrainian filmmakers talk about the event that inspired them to make a documentary about Anna Kurkurina, the Ukrainian athlete and animal activist, and...  

01/04/2025 | One World Prague 2025

Paola Díaz • Filmmaker and co-director of the Historias en Kilómetros lab

“Our initiative seeks to build peace and memory in countries that are still afflicted by war”

Paola Díaz • Filmmaker and co-director of the Historias en Kilómetros lab

The director breaks down her experience at the most recent San Sebastián Film Festival, as part of the EULAC4cinema project intended to bolster...  

28/03/2025 | /Latin America

Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon • Director of Epilogues

“I wanted the character to disappear into the fog at the end because in the fog, anything can happen”

Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon • Director of Epilogues

The Icelandic filmmaker reveals more about his personal connection to his second feature, the challenges of undertaking such a risky project, and his close...  

28/03/2025 | Vilnius 2025

Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

“My work finds its truth when we move beyond forms of storytelling that are inherently always fictitious”

Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

The acclaimed Copenhagen-based US filmmaker speaks about his fiction debut, a fierce indictment of our collective gravitation towards bystanderism and...  

28/03/2025 | /Denmark/Germany/Ireland/Italy/UK/Sweden

Danny Biancardi, Virginia Nardelli, Stefano La Rosa • Directors of The Castle

“We wanted to make a film with the kids, not just about them”

Danny Biancardi, Virginia Nardelli, Stefano La Rosa • Directors of The Castle

Making a collaborative movie with children is a serious game, according to the trio of documentary directors  

28/03/2025 | CPH:DOX 2025

Guido Chiesa • Director of For the Love of a Woman

“This woman who doesn’t know anything about her past is a bit like us, who don’t know anything about that particular world”

Guido Chiesa • Director of For the Love of a Woman

We chatted with the director about his latest film, which is strikingly different from his usual works over recent years, being set in Israel, shot in...  

28/03/2025 | Bif&st 2025

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of GEN_

“Parenthood and gender identity are universal themes which are at risk of being exploited”

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of GEN_

The director chatted with us about his documentary on the Milan-based doctor who helps patients along the challenging journeys of assisted conception and...  

27/03/2025 | /France/Italy/Switzerland

Alessandro Piva • Director of Cradle Siblings

“In Italy, a significant number of people were raised in residential institutions, a phenomenon which shouldn’t be relegated to just a handful of news articles”

Alessandro Piva • Director of Cradle Siblings

We met with the director to talk about abandoned children, female emancipation and the search for one’s roots, themes which are central to his documentary...  

27/03/2025 | Bif&st 2025

Natxo Leuza • Director of Black Water

“There is a lot of reciprocity between fiction and documentary”

Natxo Leuza • Director of Black Water

The Spanish filmmaker breaks down his documentary, which makes an urgent call through the story of a struggling family in Bangladesh  

27/03/2025 | CPH:DOX 2025

Arash T Riahi, Verena Soltiz • Directors of Girls and Gods

“We wanted to give some space to all of these women who are actually revolutionising our society within their religions”

Arash T Riahi, Verena Soltiz • Directors of Girls and Gods

The duo of directors talk about working together with their protagonist, activist Inna Shevchenko, and what it took to make a film out of conversations  

26/03/2025 | CPH:DOX 2025

Monica Strømdahl • Director of Flophouse America

“When I come and say: ‘I’m here to document,’ they know what that means better than I do”

Monica Strømdahl • Director of Flophouse America

The Norwegian director discusses her unflinching portrait of one of the thousands of families living on the margins amidst the USA’s housing crisis  

26/03/2025 | CPH:DOX 2025

Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre • Producer, Portage Films

“A break isn't a luxury but a necessity”

Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre • Producer, Portage Films

The producer from Canada, this year's guest country of the Emerging Producers programme, discusses the personal responsibility that comes with filmmaking...  

26/03/2025 | Emerging Producers 2025

Vincent Breedeveld • Distributor, The Searchers

“It’s difficult to predict whether the same enthusiasm will be shared between Wallonia and Flanders, but sometimes it is, and that’s rewarding for us”

Vincent Breedeveld • Distributor, The Searchers

The head of operations for the Benelux outfit focused on US independent films spoke about how the company strategises to distribute titles across its...  

26/03/2025 | Distributor of the Month

Silvio Soldini • Director of The Tasters

“This type of violence and oppression doesn’t belong to the past, we see it every day, it’s scary”

Silvio Soldini • Director of The Tasters

We talked to the Italian director about his new film, inspired by the story of Hitler’s last taster, and about the fact that it could be set in the near future  

25/03/2025 | Bif&st 2025

Jonas Benhaiem and Jean-Félix Dealberto • Producers of Tokyo Crush

“There’s a rather huge cultural gap between France and Japan conducive to dramaturgy and comedy”

Jonas Benhaiem and Jean-Félix Dealberto • Producers of Tokyo Crush

The directors of Salle Commune Productions unveiled the genesis of their French-Japanese project presented at the Co-Pro Pitching Sessions of the Series...  

25/03/2025 | Series Mania 2025 | Series Mania Forum

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