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.

 
Ruben Östlund • Director of Triangle of Sadness

“I’ll be a much better father now than I would have been, had I not been entered in the main competition at Cannes this year”

Ruben Östlund • Director of Triangle of Sadness

The 2017 Palme d’Or winner shares a few choice titbits of information about his new film, freshly selected for Cannes  

15/04/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition

Lucie Králová • Director of Kapr Code

“We wanted to be as honest as possible and to find our own place in the story”

Lucie Králová • Director of Kapr Code

The Czech director’s documentary opera tells the life of composer Jan Kapr  

13/04/2022 | Visions du Réel 2022 | Burning Lights Competition

José Corral Llorente • Director of Contando ovejas

"I have a very dark side”

José Corral Llorente • Director of Contando ovejas

For his debut feature, the filmmaker who is a veteran of animation has benefitted from the production of Pedro Hernández and performances from Eneko...  

13/04/2022 | /Spain/Argentina

Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić • Director and producer and co-director of The Last Nomads

“It’s a story set on the outskirts of Europe, in Montenegro, which many know only as a new tourist destination of stunning natural beauty”

Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić • Director and producer and co-director of The Last Nomads

After scooping up the Eurimages Award at CPH:FORUM, the two filmmakers talked through the winning project, which focuses on a mother and a daughter who...  

12/04/2022 | CPH:DOX 2022

Brendan Muldowney • Director of The Cellar

"The audience expects to see something, not complete darkness"

Brendan Muldowney • Director of The Cellar

We talked with the filmmaker about turning his successful short film into a feature and working during the pandemic  

12/04/2022 | SXSW 2022

Michael Steiner  • Director of And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead

“Daniela and David hoped that I could really make a film to tell their truth”

Michael Steiner • Director of And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead

We talk to the Swiss director about his film, in which he reconstructs the kidnapping of two Swiss tourists in Pakistan and their controversial release...  

12/04/2022 | Bif&st 2022

Emilie Bujès  • Artistic director, Visions du Réel

"The pandemic taught us something essential, which is that a festival can totally reinvent itself"

Emilie Bujès • Artistic director, Visions du Réel

We talked to the artistic director of the Swiss festival since 2018  

08/04/2022 | Visions du Réel 2022

Francesco Giai Via  • Head of Studies, Alpi Film Lab

“Environmental sustainability and gender equality should be seen as part of our new professional DNA”

Francesco Giai Via • Head of Studies, Alpi Film Lab

We chatted with Head of Studies Francesco Giai Via who’s overseeing this programme on Italian-French co-production, the second edition of which kicks off on...  

08/04/2022 | Italy/France

Giulia Giapponesi • Director of Bella Ciao - Per la libertà

“A hymn to a type of resistance which unites us all”

Giulia Giapponesi • Director of Bella Ciao - Per la libertà

We met with the director behind the documentary charting the history of a song which has come to symbolise the fight against injustice  

07/04/2022 | Bergamo 2022

Elina Kask  • Partners Relations & Events Producer, Black Nights Film Festival

"The most important as well as the most valued output for making a brand visible at a film festival, is displaying a company’s advertisements and visual identity in cinemas"

Elina Kask • Partners Relations & Events Producer, Black Nights Film Festival

Elina Kask is an events producer and in partners relations at Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn  

07/04/2022 | Euro Film Fest

Patrice Toye • Director of Tench

“In a film you can show different visions, look at things in another way”

Patrice Toye • Director of Tench

We met up with the Belgian director at the 40th edition of the Bergamo Film Meeting, where she presented a complete retrospective of her work  

06/04/2022 | Bergamo 2022

Victoria Fiore • Director of Hide and Seek

“It’s hard not to become cynical, it’s a struggle”

Victoria Fiore • Director of Hide and Seek

The director spoke to us about the filmmaking process behind her debut feature film, which was wholly shot in Naples’ Spanish Quarters  

05/04/2022 | CPH:DOX 2022

Volker Schlöndorff • Director of The Forest Maker

“My outlook on Africa isn’t pessimistic”

Volker Schlöndorff • Director of The Forest Maker

The German director spoke to us about his documentary dedicated to Tony Rinaudo, an agronomist who introduced a conservation agriculture system with the...  

05/04/2022 | Bergamo 2022

Vincent Kelner • Director of A Taste of Whale

"In the Faroe Islands, they are close to nature and they don’t lie"

Vincent Kelner • Director of A Taste of Whale

We talked with the French filmmaker about his documentary and his decision to listen to whale hunters when others are quick to accuse them  

05/04/2022 | CPH:DOX 2022

Einari Paakkanen • Director of Karaoke Paradise

“I was afraid it was going to be a film about drunken Finns howling in bars”

Einari Paakkanen • Director of Karaoke Paradise

We talked with the Finnish director about his film, which explores his country's love for karaoke  

05/04/2022 | CPH:DOX 2022

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