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.

 
Beata Parkanová • Director of The Word

“We often forget what we thought but never what we felt”

Beata Parkanová • Director of The Word

The Czech director, whose film won two awards at Karlovy Vary, turns back time and gets inspired by the story of her own family  

14/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Julia Sinkevych  • Programmer of Parallels and Encounters, Palić European Film Festival

“We celebrate the diversity of artistic visions”

Julia Sinkevych • Programmer of Parallels and Encounters, Palić European Film Festival

We chatted with the Ukrainian-born professional, who tells us more about several aspects of the Serbian event that kicks off this Saturday, 16 July  

14/07/2022 | Palić 2022

Lukas Sturm, Lila Schwarzenberg • Directors of My Father, The Prince

“It is never too late to have a conversation between father and daughter, parents and children”

Lukas Sturm, Lila Schwarzenberg • Directors of My Father, The Prince

Czech politician and statesman Karel Schwarzenberg is the subject of this highly personal documentary by his daughter Lila and Lukas Sturm  

13/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Manuel Alduy • Director of Film and International Development, France Télévisions

"Platforms have sizeable ambitions and they contribute towards overall inflation"

Manuel Alduy • Director of Film and International Development, France Télévisions

The director breaks down the strategy of one of the biggest players in the European audiovisual field  

13/07/2022 | Série Series 2022

Katharina Woll • Director of Everybody Wants to Be Loved

“We sometimes say that we absolutely don't want to become like our parents – but often, that’s exactly how it goes”

Katharina Woll • Director of Everybody Wants to Be Loved

In the German director’s first feature, Anne Ratte-Poll plays a psychotherapist in dire need of someone to listen to her and her needs  

13/07/2022 | Filmfest München 2022

Andrija Mardešić and David Kapac • Directors of The Uncle

"Christmas is the greatest subliminal attack where form takes over substance"

Andrija Mardešić and David Kapac • Directors of The Uncle

In their debut feature, the pair of filmmakers whisk us away to a hellish Christmas party in 1980s Yugoslavia  

12/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Šimon Holý • Director of And Then There Was Love...

"To me, the movie is about manipulation more than about the relationship between mother and daughter"

Šimon Holý • Director of And Then There Was Love...

In his newest feature, the filmmaker explores the manipulative world of fortune-telling and easy solutions in life  

12/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Christos Passalis • Director of Silence 6-9

“Understanding is overrated”

Christos Passalis • Director of Silence 6-9

We talked to the Greek actor about his directorial debut, in which he stars alongside Angeliki Papoulia  

12/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma • Directors of Year of the Shark

"As soon as we started writing films, we realised that everything took us back to the places of our childhood"

Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma • Directors of Year of the Shark

The French directors took us behind the scenes of their third feature film and shared their passion for genre cinema  

12/07/2022 | NIFFF 2022

Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska and Magdalena Sztorc • Director and producer of Dolphin

"Dolphin is about a couple facing a very unusual gender twist, and the struggle the female character has with the process of creation and accepting herself"

Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska and Magdalena Sztorc • Director and producer of Dolphin

We talked to the director-producer team behind the winner of the connecting cottbus Award in KVIFF Eastern Promises to find out more about their intimate...  

12/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

Sophie Vuković and Eliza Jones • Director and producer of My Best Friend’s Baby

"Our film tries to portray the complexities of friendship, especially for those people who do not comply with the norm in terms of their relationship, their sexuality or parenthood"

Sophie Vuković and Eliza Jones • Director and producer of My Best Friend’s Baby

The duo behind the winner of the KVIFF & MIDPOINT Development Award in KVIFF Eastern Promises break down their film, which revolves around the different...  

12/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

Tizian Büchi • Director of Like an Island

"Fiction and imagination are also part of reality, and as a member of the audience, I like to have the opportunity to build my own story"

Tizian Büchi • Director of Like an Island

We sat down with the director to discuss his fable - part documentary, part fiction and tinged with magical realism - which subtly questions our...  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Matt Sarnecki • Director of The Killing of a Journalist

"Thanks to the clear evidence, this case is a blueprint for how corruption works throughout the region, but maybe also around the world"

Matt Sarnecki • Director of The Killing of a Journalist

The director unpicks his investigative documentary that tackles the 2018 murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Adéla Komrzý and Tomás Bojar • Directors of Art Talent Show

"Maybe the Western, liberal, individualistic way of thinking has gone too far, and we’re too obsessed with the personal side of things"

Adéla Komrzý and Tomás Bojar • Directors of Art Talent Show

The directors talk us through their Proxima Grand Prix winner, which was filmed over the course of one week during the entrance exams for the Prague Academy...  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Giona A Nazzaro • Artistic director, Locarno Film Festival

“We’ve tried to develop effective dialogue with the public, both quantitively and qualitatively”

Giona A Nazzaro • Artistic director, Locarno Film Festival

Heading up the Locarno Film Festival for the second year running, the artistic director discussed the event’s 75th-anniversary edition  

11/07/2022 | Locarno 2022

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