Interviews

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

8477 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 11/10/2025. 656 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez • Directors of Upon Entry

“We tried to make the film feel as organic as possible, to make it grow from something inside of the characters”

Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez • Directors of Upon Entry

The intimate drama by the two Venezuelan directors based in Spain channels the fears of many migrants  

30/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | First Feature Competition

Titas Laucius • Director of Parade

“The Church is a static institution, and the film’s images reflect that”

Titas Laucius • Director of Parade

The Lithuanian director takes his protagonists on an odyssey through the structures of the Catholic Church  

30/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | First Feature Competition

Dito Tsindsadze • Director of Roxy

“Correctness and loyalty could be damn immoral”

Dito Tsindsadze • Director of Roxy

We spoke to the Georgian filmmaker living in Germany about his amusing comedy which questions in a smart way the rectitude of civil orderliness and today’s...  

29/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics' Picks

Luca Ferrario • Director, Trentino Film Commission

“A producer’s biggest fear is having to bear additional costs, but this is often not justified”

Luca Ferrario • Director, Trentino Film Commission

At Tallinn, we met up with the Italian professional to talk through the initial results achieved by Green Film, and how the tool plans to expand its reach...  

29/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Marysia Nikitiuk • Director of Lucky Girl

“For me, making a film is a journey, and this trip is always unique”

Marysia Nikitiuk • Director of Lucky Girl

We chatted to the Ukrainian director about the background to her film, revolving around a popular, selfish, career-orientated TV presenter who gets...  

29/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Adrian Goiginger • Director of The Fox

"Taking care of the fox cub kept my great-grandfather sane in the midst of the horrible events he witnessed"

Adrian Goiginger • Director of The Fox

We met up with the Austrian director to discuss his great-grandfather’s personal experience during the Second World War, a story which became the centre of...  

28/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Filip Heraković • Director of Pelican

"This is a coming-of-age story, but with an adult"

Filip Heraković • Director of Pelican

This Croatian filmmaker discusses his film about the existential pursuit of an injured footballer in a spa resort, which received a Special Jury Prize in...  

28/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | First Feature Competition

Giedrius Tamoševičius • Director of The Poet

“Man's basic instincts and feelings are not subject to time, but we can analyse them and draw our own conclusions”

Giedrius Tamoševičius • Director of The Poet

The Lithuanian director spoke to us about his latest film, co-written with Vytautas V Landsbergis, about a newly appointed teacher who arrives at a remote...  

28/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Baltic Film Competition

Hilmar Oddsson, Hera Hilmar • Director of and actress in Driving Mum

"All good comedies are also tragedies"

Hilmar Oddsson, Hera Hilmar • Director of and actress in Driving Mum

We met up with the Icelandic director and his daughter, and actress in his latest film, to talk about inspiration and characters  

25/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

J-P Valkeapää • Director of Hit Big

"While writing this script during lockdown, in this atmosphere where you were scared of dying, I realised that this film was about the end of the world"

J-P Valkeapää • Director of Hit Big

We met up with the Finnish director and talked about his inspirations when writing and creating his new film  

24/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Béatrice Pollet • Director of And Yet We Were All Blind

“Women have problems making people believe them”

Béatrice Pollet • Director of And Yet We Were All Blind

We talked to the French filmmaker about her highly sensitive and disturbing drama about a woman who experiences pregnancy denial  

24/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Christopher Roth • Director of Servus Papa, See You in Hell

“I didn't want to make a documentary; I wanted the film to have its own sense of autonomy"

Christopher Roth • Director of Servus Papa, See You in Hell

The director discussed his interest in utopias and his wish to depict the power that comes with standing still  

24/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

"It was very important for me to show how the story is put together in the film, that the story didn’t exist prior to it"

Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

The Serbian director discusses the second part of her dyptich of documentaries, which re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement during the era of...  

24/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

Mika Kaurismäki • Director of The Grump: In Search of an Escort

“I like tragicomedies where something that you look at closely may seem very sad, and when you look from farther away, it can be very funny”

Mika Kaurismäki • Director of The Grump: In Search of an Escort

The Finnish director told us how he proceeded when adapting the story of a grumpy old man with a passion for old cars  

24/11/2022 | /Finland

Fisnik Maxville • Director of The Land Within

“At one point, I really wanted to write: ‘Inspired by thousands of true stories’”

Fisnik Maxville • Director of The Land Within

We sat down with the Kosovar helmer, whose debut feature follows a young man returning to his native village to take part in the exhumation of a mass grave  

23/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | First Feature Competition

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