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. 655 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Samppa Batal, Tuomas Kohtamäki • Director and producer of Timeman

“You are not sure if you are allowed to laugh”

Samppa Batal, Tuomas Kohtamäki • Director and producer of Timeman

Time travel’s a bitch in this melancholic Finnish production, named Best Film in the Warsaw Film Festival’s Free Spirit Competition  

24/10/2022 | Warsaw 2022

Christophe Leparc • Director, Cinemed

"The first necessity is to make audiences return to cinemas"

Christophe Leparc • Director, Cinemed

We talked to the director of the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, whose 44th edition takes place from 21 to 29 October  

21/10/2022 | Cinemed 2022

Bille August • Director of The Kiss

“Non-disabled people take love for granted and see it as something they have a right to”

Bille August • Director of The Kiss

The seasoned Danish director returns with an elegant period drama that revolves around a military officer who is too compassionate for his own good  

21/10/2022 | Warsaw 2022

Csilla Kató and Dumitru Budrala • Head of programming and founding director, Astra Film Festival

“The way a festival is experienced in a cinema cannot be reproduced outdoors or online”

Csilla Kató and Dumitru Budrala • Head of programming and founding director, Astra Film Festival

We talked with the founders of Romania’s oldest documentary gathering about the challenges they encountered while preparing the 2022 edition  

20/10/2022 | Astra 2022

Otilia Babara • Director of Love Is Not an Orange

“This is why the archive footage was so powerful: it makes it clear that this is not a one-off story”

Otilia Babara • Director of Love Is Not an Orange

In her first feature-length documentary, the Moldovan director tells the story of her fellow countrywomen through some intriguing video footage  

20/10/2022 | DOK Leipzig 2022

Rémi Durin and Arnaud Demuynck • Directors of Yuku and the Flower of the Himalayas

"Rémi’s mise-en-scène ideas made me rethink how to tackle the story"

Rémi Durin and Arnaud Demuynck • Directors of Yuku and the Flower of the Himalayas

We met with the directors of the (very young) children’s animated film, which marks their first foray into feature films and is hitting cinemas in Belgium...  

19/10/2022 | /Belgium/France/Switzerland

Cristian Mungiu • Director of R.M.N.

"We have to defy all these rules which form the basis of storytelling, in theory"

Cristian Mungiu • Director of R.M.N.

The Romanian director decodes his masterful and compositely refined film, which was unveiled in competition at the latest Cannes Film Festival  

18/10/2022 | /Romania/France/Belgium/Sweden

Jean Libon and Yves Hinant • Directors of For a Fistful of Fries

"Time and trust are key elements for capturing real life"

Jean Libon and Yves Hinant • Directors of For a Fistful of Fries

We met with the Belgian directors five years after the success met by So Help Me God in order to discuss their latest film, released tomorrow in Belgium  

18/10/2022 | /France/Belgium

Juliette Rajon and Gérald Duchaussoy • Director and programme manager, International Classic Film Market

“When you know how to attract young audiences, they are there for heritage films”

Juliette Rajon and Gérald Duchaussoy • Director and programme manager, International Classic Film Market

The leaders of the MIFC, the 10th edition of which takes place from 18 to 21 October in Lyon as part of the Lumière Festival, analyse the tendencies of the...  

18/10/2022 | /France

Alessandro Ravani • Commercial Director, RAI Com

“Technology can never replace human connections in various international markets”

Alessandro Ravani • Commercial Director, RAI Com

On the occasion of the beginning of MIPCOM in Cannes, the man responsible for the sale of RAI content tells us about his activity in the markets  

17/10/2022 | /Italy

Xavier Henry-Rashid • Sales agent, Film Republic

“The problem is that there is no discernible business model in sales”

Xavier Henry-Rashid • Sales agent, Film Republic

During our interview, we spoke about how the UK-based company’s business model and the work of sales agents in Europe are both evolving  

14/10/2022 | /UK

Ana Pereira • Coordinator, Arché

“We always aim for a plural selection”

Ana Pereira • Coordinator, Arché

With the eighth edition of Doclisboa’s Arché industry strand about to wrap, we spoke to its coordinator to get to know the origins and intricacies of the...  

14/10/2022 | Doclisboa 2022 | Doclisboa Arché

Bruno Castro • Director, Alvalade Cineclube

"We need to move beyond preconceived ideas"

Bruno Castro • Director, Alvalade Cineclube

The Portuguese professional spoke to us about the situation in his country and the important role played by film clubs in guiding audiences back to cinemas  

11/10/2022 | /Portugal

Bettina Blümner  • Director of Vamos a la playa

“Humour is how we cope with life, especially today”

Bettina Blümner • Director of Vamos a la playa

In the German director’s awkward new movie, privilege meets good intentions, to amusing effect  

06/10/2022 | Zurich 2022

Solomiia Tomashcuk  • Director of Between Us

“These are just the questions that I myself wanted to answer, and I posed them to my heroines”

Solomiia Tomashcuk • Director of Between Us

The Ukrainian director sat down with us to discuss her psychological thriller revolving around an unusual friendship and its tragic consequences  

06/10/2022 | Hamburg 2022

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