Interviews

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

8439 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 12/09/2025. 654 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Nenad Puhovski • Director, ZagrebDox

“We will strive to present our audiences with the world in which we live, in all its fullness”

Nenad Puhovski • Director, ZagrebDox

The founder and director of ZagrebDox gives us an insight into this year’s recently concluded festival and the changes afoot in the film industry  

04/05/2022 | ZagrebDox 2022

Taras Tomenko • Director of Boney Piles

“Each of these children had a dramatic story, but what I saw in Nastya really touched me”

Taras Tomenko • Director of Boney Piles

The Ukrainian director discusses his latest documentary, which is dedicated to a whole generation of children living in wartime  

04/05/2022 | goEast 2022

Nicola Guaglianone • Screenwriter and producer

“At this prosperous moment in time, screenwriters are the ones having to take on business risk”

Nicola Guaglianone • Screenwriter and producer

A guest at the IDM-Film Commission Südtirol Meetings, the director of They Call Me Jeeg and Freaks Out met with us to discuss the need for an alliance...  

03/05/2022 | Incontri 2022

Vahagn Khachatryan and Aren Malakyan • Directors of 5 Dreamers and a Horse

“We decided to film three generations in order to come up with a portrait of this entire society”

Vahagn Khachatryan and Aren Malakyan • Directors of 5 Dreamers and a Horse

The filmmakers talk about some of the ideas behind their movie, their relationship with the characters and the images of Armenian society that lurk behind...  

03/05/2022 | goEast 2022

Bogna Kowalczyk • Director of Boylesque

“I like to say that you can steal your film, or your protagonist can give it to you”

Bogna Kowalczyk • Director of Boylesque

The Polish director zooms in on drag queen Lulla La Polaca, asking: if you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?  

29/04/2022 | Hot Docs 2022

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

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