Interviews

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

8329 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 22/07/2025. 664 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Ketevan Kapanadze • Director of How the Room Felt

“There is a Western image of what activism should be, but it might just not work in the East”

Ketevan Kapanadze • Director of How the Room Felt

The Georgian filmmaker comments on the poetic style of her film and provides some interesting insights into its production process  

29/04/2022 | goEast 2022

Ione Atenea • Director of Los caballos mueren al amanecer

"We form another kind of community, which we can also call family"

Ione Atenea • Director of Los caballos mueren al amanecer

The filmmaker gives us a breakdown of her second film, created using a vast amount of audiovisual material taken by unknown people, found in a house in...  

28/04/2022 | Las Palmas 2022

Álfrún Helga Örnólfsdóttir • Director of Band

“This is women embracing failure on stage”

Álfrún Helga Örnólfsdóttir • Director of Band

The Icelandic director invites us to give it up for her very own The Post Performance Blues Band (ThePPBB). And no, they are not joking  

28/04/2022 | Hot Docs 2022

Domante Urmonaitė and Ieva Bužinskaitė • Art Department Masterclass

“We want to make an impact by making environmentally friendly work in the art department one of the focuses of the training”

Domante Urmonaitė and Ieva Bužinskaitė • Art Department Masterclass

We spoke to two employees of Art Department Masterclass to get the low-down on their educational programme for art-department crew  

27/04/2022 | /Lithuania

Lynne Davison • Director of Mandrake

“Great genre films always have great human stories behind them”

Lynne Davison • Director of Mandrake

The director tells us about embracing the darkness of folk horror in her feature debut  

26/04/2022 | Night Visions 2022

Valerio Filardo • Project Coordinator, Lovers Goes Industry

“The new challenge for LGBTQI+-themed films is to think about domestic consumption as early on as in the conception and writing phase”

Valerio Filardo • Project Coordinator, Lovers Goes Industry

The third edition of the LGBTQI+ industry days, linked to Turin’s Lovers Film Festival, will unspool on 29 and 30 April; we discussed the event with its...  

25/04/2022 | Lovers 2022 | Lovers Goes Industry

Mathieu Gérault • Director of South Sentinel

"The belligerent art of war spilled through into the story and its characters"

Mathieu Gérault • Director of South Sentinel

This promising French director’s debut feature is a film noir about a traumatised man who returns from the war against a backdrop of trafficking and a...  

25/04/2022 | /France

Gianluca Matarrese and Mattia Colombo • Directors of Il posto – A Steady Job

“I like to dive into a story and a topic without knowing from the beginning where it will lead me”

Gianluca Matarrese and Mattia Colombo • Directors of Il posto – A Steady Job

The healthcare system in Italy has certainly not improved during the pandemic, as is evident from this documentary  

21/04/2022 | Visions du Réel 2022 | Grand Angle

Jussi Hiltunen • Director of Evilside

“This series features many dark situations, but these days, I am trying to find warmth in such scenes”

Jussi Hiltunen • Director of Evilside

Following its bow at MIPDrama in Cannes, the six-episode Finnish series is now set for a local release, and we caught up with the director to find out more...  

21/04/2022 | /Finland/Norway

Paolo Moretti • Artistic director, Directors’ Fortnight

"It’s my way of interpreting the Directors’ Fortnight mission"

Paolo Moretti • Artistic director, Directors’ Fortnight

The artistic director of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight explains the choices made in the 2022 selection and describes his take on the parallel section’s...  

21/04/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Directors’ Fortnight

Dušan Milić • Director of Darkling

“Many conflicts still haven’t been resolved, there’s an ongoing sense of danger”

Dušan Milić • Director of Darkling

The Serbian director chatted with us about his thriller set in post-war Kosovo  

21/04/2022 | /Serbia/Italy/Bulgaria/Denmark/Greece

Estephania Bonnett • Creative producer and director, Playlab Films

“Each participant will make a short film, getting involved in all stages of the process”

Estephania Bonnett • Creative producer and director, Playlab Films

We talked to the creative producer and director of Playlab Films about “Filming in the Amazon”, a unique seminar with master of cinema Apichatpong Weerasethakul  

21/04/2022 | /Europe/Latin America

Volker Sattel and Francesca Bertin • Directors of Tara

"What I think is missing in many documentary films is a more democratic view"

Volker Sattel and Francesca Bertin • Directors of Tara

In their dynamic and powerful documentary, the directors explore the social and physical spaces around the river Tara  

20/04/2022 | Visions du Réel 2022 | Competition

Ava Cahen • Artistic director, Critics’ Week

"Getting close to emerging talents and revealing them to the world"

Ava Cahen • Artistic director, Critics’ Week

The new artistic director of Cannes’ Critics’ Week explains her 2022 film selection  

20/04/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Critics’ Week

Mikko Aromaa • Director, Night Visions

“We are not getting softer; we are broadening our horizons”

Mikko Aromaa • Director, Night Visions

According to the head honcho of Night Visions, the Helsinki-based genre festival is ready to party like it’s 2019  

19/04/2022 | /Finland

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