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.

 
Juraj Lerotić  • Director of Safe Place

“My film is about a traumatic event, a sudden rift in everyday life, a loss of control”

Juraj Lerotić • Director of Safe Place

We got the chance to talk to the director of the Cineuropa Award-winning film, the protagonist of which is caught between the unlimited support of his...  

31/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Óskar Kristinn Vignisson  • Director of Free Men

“I made this film not for the festivals, but for my parents”

Óskar Kristinn Vignisson • Director of Free Men

We sat down with the Next Nordic Generation winner at Haugesund to have a chinwag about his graduation short and what the jury called its “absurd manner”  

30/08/2022 | Haugesund 2022

Marysia Nikitiuk  • Director of Cherry Blossoms

“CineLink, the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Eurimages Award have given me the hope and strength to continue making films”

Marysia Nikitiuk • Director of Cherry Blossoms

We spoke to the winner of the Eurimages Special Co-production Development Award about her film, which follows the meeting of survivors from the...  

29/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | CineLink Industry Days

Thanasis Neofotistos • Director of The Boy With the Light-blue Eyes

“I found the jury’s description of the film as a ‘modern fable’ very insightful and descriptive of what we aspire to create”

Thanasis Neofotistos • Director of The Boy With the Light-blue Eyes

We spoke to the winner of this year’s Eurimages Co-production Development Award at Sarajevo’s CineLink Industry Days about his fascinating-sounding new project  

29/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | CineLink Industry Days

Gabrielle Rozing  • Sales agent, Fortissimo Films

“We’re handling fewer and fewer films, and we follow more of a ‘boutique-like’ approach”

Gabrielle Rozing • Sales agent, Fortissimo Films

We sat down with the Dutch outfit’s general manager to discuss its editorial strategies and its line-up, among other topics  

25/08/2022 | /Netherlands

Vedrana Pribačić, Mirta Puhlovski  • Director and screenwriter of Bigger than Trauma

"We wanted to show the healing process of the women traumatised by war and rape, but from their inner person"

Vedrana Pribačić, Mirta Puhlovski • Director and screenwriter of Bigger than Trauma

The Croatian film about female victims of war crimes won the Human Rights Award in the festival's Documentary Competition, and its creators talk to us about it  

24/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Documentary Competition

Igor Ivanko  • Director of Fragile Memory

"The film archive of my grandfather (and cinematographer) is unique because it is a personal as well a professional one"

Igor Ivanko • Director of Fragile Memory

The Ukrainian filmmaker talks about what's behind his work, which has just received the Special Jury Award in the festival's Documentary Competition  

24/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Documentary Competition

Matthias Helwig • Director, Fünf Seen Filmfestival

“We have to start almost from scratch to inspire people to come and watch films – and I am ready to do so”

Matthias Helwig • Director, Fünf Seen Filmfestival

The head honcho of the Fünf Seen Filmfestival, perched on the outskirts of Munich, tells us more about its focus on movies from the German-speaking world  

24/08/2022 | /Germany

Helena Maksyom • Director

“As a serving member of the Ukrainian military, I am a soldier first and a filmmaker second”

Helena Maksyom • Director

We talked with the co-director of Everything Will Not Be Fine, who is currently fighting in the Ukrainian army, about her war experiences and filmmaking future  

24/08/2022 | /Romania/Ukraine

Noemi Veronika Szakonyi  • Director of Six Weeks

"The six-week adoption law in Hungary is a very suspenseful situation for a film"

Noemi Veronika Szakonyi • Director of Six Weeks

The Hungarian filmmaker discusses her film, which follows a young mother of an unwanted child who has six weeks to change her mind and get her child back,...  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Dominik Mencej  • Director of Riders

"This is the Slovenian version of Easy Rider, structured like a memory of recent times"

Dominik Mencej • Director of Riders

The Slovenian filmmaker talks about how he looked back at the recent past of the Balkans while drawing inspiration from Dennis Hopper's landmark film  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Aida Begic  • Director of A Ballad

"I wanted to make a love story and experiment with everything that is 'forbidden' in arthouse cinema"

Aida Begic • Director of A Ballad

The Bosnian filmmaker tried her hand at romantic comedy for the first time in her latest film, which opened the Sarajevo Film Festival  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Marta Smerechynska • Director of Diary of a Bride of Christ

“When something is so familiar to you, somehow you don't even think about it or discuss it very deeply”

Marta Smerechynska • Director of Diary of a Bride of Christ

The Ukrainian director gives us the background to the story of her family, and particularly her younger sister, who became a nun  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Documentary Competition

Paul Negoescu  • Director of Men of Deeds

“There is no money for writing in Romania”

Paul Negoescu • Director of Men of Deeds

We talked to the Romanian director about his fourth feature, the lack of professional screenwriters in his country’s film industry and what’s next for him  

22/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Kilian Riedhof • Director of You Will Not Have My Hate

"Three countries made this film as a European answer to terrorism. We have to stay together"

Kilian Riedhof • Director of You Will Not Have My Hate

In his film, the German director celebrates love  

22/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Piazza Grande

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