Interviews

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

8438 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 12/09/2025. 653 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

Mathilde Pâques • Manager, Brussels Coproduction Market

“The idea was to create a competitive platform for projects in order to favour co-productions”

Mathilde Pâques • Manager, Brussels Coproduction Market

We met with the head of the professional event which is this year welcoming 21 international feature film projects in search of co-producers and partners  

05/07/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Lukas Kacinauskas • Director of I Was Max

"Cinematic is what’s real, engaging and meaningful"

Lukas Kacinauskas • Director of I Was Max

After some success on the festival circuit with his movie, we talk to the Lithuanian director as he travels with the film to EFP’s Future Frames  

05/07/2022 | Future Frames 2022

Chechu García-Berlanga • Director of El joven Berlanga

"Luis García-Berlanga really knew how to live”

Chechu García-Berlanga • Director of El joven Berlanga

The great-nephew of the great Valencian maestro has presented a documentary in the city of their birth that recounts the first 25 years in the genius' life,...  

05/07/2022 | Cinema Jove 2022

Anna Kazejak • Director of Fucking Bornholm

“I have never received so many messages after any of my other films”

Anna Kazejak • Director of Fucking Bornholm

The Polish helmer discusses why her new feature is prompting so much feedback from her audience, and why film is her favourite art form  

05/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Carmen Pedrero • Director of Winds of Springtime

"I believe that patience and hard work are always good companions, as well as passion"

Carmen Pedrero • Director of Winds of Springtime

The Spanish director spoke to us as her tender coming-of-age story prepares to take part in EFP's Future Frames  

05/07/2022 | Future Frames 2022

Angelika Abramovitch • Director of Catcave Hysteria

"There is no place like the ladies' bathroom - that was something we wanted to capture in making this film. It was an utter joy"

Angelika Abramovitch • Director of Catcave Hysteria

In her Future Frames-selected film, the Swedish director opens the door of a women’s bathroom, and shows life, love and sorrow all play out between the cubicles  

05/07/2022 | Future Frames 2022

Martin Kuba • Director of Vinland

"We'd all love to do the 'right' things, but what if it's not clear what is right and wrong any more, or if all the choices are in some respect bad?"

Martin Kuba • Director of Vinland

The Czech director's film is a timely and intense story of migrant workers that blends the political and the personal, soon to screen in EFP’s Future Frames  

04/07/2022 | Future Frames 2022

Silvia Martínez • Business development manager, Valladolid Trade Fair Centre

"We’ve managed to create a working space where professionals feel comfortable"

Silvia Martínez • Business development manager, Valladolid Trade Fair Centre

We talked to one of the key organisers of this event, which brings together location managers and shooting locations, and which will be held in October at...  

04/07/2022 | Shooting Locations Marketplace 2022

Max Ovaska • Director of Carrier

"It's a story about fear and a reluctance to let go of a phase in life, and entering another that is new and unknown"

Max Ovaska • Director of Carrier

As he prepares to take part in EFP's Future Frames and screen his film, we talk to the Finnish director about filming on ferries and breaking stereotypes...  

04/07/2022 | Future Frames 2022

Alica Bednáriková • Director of Liquid Bread

“In general, I strongly believe that films should always surprise you”

Alica Bednáriková • Director of Liquid Bread

Cineuropa talks to the Slovak director as she prepares for her film to screen as part of EFP's Future Frames  

04/07/2022 | Future Frames 2022

Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir • Co-founder, IceDocs Iceland Documentary Film Festival

“We try our best to showcase how broad a medium creative documentary can be”

Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir • Co-founder, IceDocs Iceland Documentary Film Festival

The fourth edition of the Akranes-based documentary festival wrapped on 26 June, and we chatted to one of its co-founders about this year's iteration and...  

01/07/2022 | IceDocs 2022

Enric Ribes • Director of Singing on the Rooftops

"I have always been interested in the world of drag"

Enric Ribes • Director of Singing on the Rooftops

In his debut feature, the Catalan director combines fiction and reality to portray Gilda Love, a nonagenarian transvestite, a resident of Barcelona's El...  

01/07/2022 | /Spain

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