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.

 
Jaime Olías, Pablo Sanhermelando Blanes • Directors of How to Screw It All Up

"We wanted to talk about the search for freedom when you’re young, and the consequences this can have"

Jaime Olías, Pablo Sanhermelando Blanes • Directors of How to Screw It All Up

The directors of HBO Max's new Spanish Original series discuss the motivations behind the project and their interest in portraying Generation Z  

11/07/2022 | Série Series 2022

Karen Avetisyan • Artistic director, Golden Apricot International Film Festival

“The process of building up new Armenian cinema is long-term and is now still at the fermentation stage”

Karen Avetisyan • Artistic director, Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Returning to its original dates in July, Armenia’s major film event places an emphasis on regional cinema, as confirmed by its artistic director  

08/07/2022 | Golden Apricot 2022

Andrea Bagney • Director of Ramona

"We only have one life - this is it, and if you don’t go for it now, you won't have a chapter two"

Andrea Bagney • Director of Ramona

We had a chinwag about this romantic comedy in which an episode of innocent flirtation gets in the way of a woman's dreams and the perfectly good...  

08/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Tomasz Wasilewski • Director of Fools

"I wanted to talk about the biggest taboo: incest between a mother and son - in my film, two mature people choose this path and are condemned by society for it"

Tomasz Wasilewski • Director of Fools

We sat down with the Polish director to discuss his drama about the difficult relationship between a mother and son, whose choices have dramatic consequences  

08/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Ofir Raul Grazier • Director of America

"I wanted to tell a story about childhood and its influence on our life; it's the basic thing in our human spirit"

Ofir Raul Grazier • Director of America

The Israeli director unpicks his new feature, a cleverly structured, psychologically complex story about relationships, which has just screened in...  

08/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Maciej Jankowski • Director of Fruits and Vegetables

“Obesity gave us an excuse to explore the destructive power of shame”

Maciej Jankowski • Director of Fruits and Vegetables

The Polish director talks to us about his tender story of a mother and son, screening as part of EFP’s Future Frames  

08/07/2022 | Future Frames 2022

Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper • Directors of Vesper

“We’re the audience, too, after all”

Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper • Directors of Vesper

We sat down with the helmers of this ambitious European sci-fi co-production, a visually astonishing tale set in a dystopian world where the Earth’s...  

08/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Magdalena Chmielewska • Director of Lullaby

“It’s always a question of how to compose the images and sounds so that, in between, I can get closer to the mystery of life”

Magdalena Chmielewska • Director of Lullaby

After winning the Max Ophüls Preis for her film, the Vienna-based director talks to us as it screens at EFP’s Future Frames  

08/07/2022 | Future Frames 2022

Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov and Zlatina Teneva • Directors of A Provincial Hospital

“We hope that our film offers a unique and surprising window into a reality that seemed so close and yet so far away”

Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov and Zlatina Teneva • Directors of A Provincial Hospital

The co-directors share their insights into the filming process for their documentary, revealing the atmosphere in a small Bulgarian hospital during the peak...  

08/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Tomasz Wiński • Director of Borders of Love

“I’m just interested in pain”

Tomasz Wiński • Director of Borders of Love

A long-standing couple decide to live out their fantasies – also with other people – in the Polish-born, Czech-based filmmaker’s new effort  

08/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze and Taki Mumladze • Director of and actress in A Room of My Own

"This film was made thanks to the help of our friends, and our ambition is to be the voice of young people in Georgia"

Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze and Taki Mumladze • Director of and actress in A Room of My Own

The director and his lead actress and co-writer break down their new film, which has just screened in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film...  

07/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Andreas Horvath • Director of Zoo Lock Down

“I like to explore the world beyond words”

Andreas Horvath • Director of Zoo Lock Down

In his new film, the Austrian director shows the pandemic from a four-legged perspective  

07/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Sophie Linnenbaum • Director of The Ordinaries

"Only by consciously turning to and questioning these mechanisms of narratives can we become storytellers ourselves"

Sophie Linnenbaum • Director of The Ordinaries

The director unpicks her movie, and how she lets the outside discourse of identity, social caste and media representation form a meta-world within the film  

07/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Brenda Lien • Director of First Work, Then Play

"I'm not sure people will ever fully understand that being an artist isn't all fun and games"

Brenda Lien • Director of First Work, Then Play

The German filmmaker talks creative burnout and modern culture as her film is about to screen at EFP's Future Frames  

07/07/2022 | Future Frames 2022

Nicolai GH Johansen • Director of If You Knew

"When we talk about mental illness in general, we are often too quick to reduce people to diagnoses"

Nicolai GH Johansen • Director of If You Knew

We chat to the Danish director as his raw and intense piece about mental illness screens as part of EFP’s Future Frames  

06/07/2022 | Future Frames 2022

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