Interviews

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

8327 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 18/07/2025. 662 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai  • Directors of Rookies

"The project is about looking for children who are failing academically in tricky neighbourhoods and bringing them together through hip-hop"

Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai • Directors of Rookies

BERLINALE 2022: The French documentary makers lift the veil on an extraordinary educative mission attempting to break the spiral of social determinism  

11/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Panorama

Colm Bairéad  • Director of The Quiet Girl

“I decided the camera shouldn’t ever leave the protagonist”

Colm Bairéad • Director of The Quiet Girl

BERLINALE 2022: From Ireland comes an intimate coming-of-age story set in the 1980s but with timeless relevance  

11/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Generation

Alain Guiraudie  • Director of Nobody’s Hero

"The film plays with cliches a lot"

Alain Guiraudie • Director of Nobody’s Hero

BERLINALE 2022: Terrorist attacks, collective paranoia, the French province torn between the past and the present: the French filmmaker tells us about his...  

11/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Panorama

Helena de Llanos  • Director of Journey to Somewhere

“It’s very inspiring to run into special people”

Helena de Llanos • Director of Journey to Somewhere

We chatted about the documentary that pays tribute to the free-spirited atmosphere created by her grandfather, Fernando Fernán Gómez, and his partner, Emma...  

11/02/2022 | /Spain

Mascha Halberstad  • Director of Oink

“It always upsets me when people underestimate children”

Mascha Halberstad • Director of Oink

BERLINALE 2022: There is more to life than the title of “Sausage King” in this delightful stop-motion animation opening this year’s Generation Kplus  

10/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Generation

Shamira Raphaëla  • Director of Shabu

“In the end, every documentary is always fiction; there is no such thing as an objective documentary”

Shamira Raphaëla • Director of Shabu

BERLINALE 2022: In the Dutch director’s film, the titular Shabu invites the viewer to spend a very special summer with him  

10/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Generation

Chris Orgelt  • Programme Manager, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival

"People do not come only for the films, they come for the atmosphere, to have fun and enjoy themselves"

Chris Orgelt • Programme Manager, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival

09/02/2022 | Euro Film Fest

Judita Gamulin  • Director of Leave the Door Open

“I like to watch films in which the setting is used to paint a clear picture of how it feels to be in the protagonists’ heads”

Judita Gamulin • Director of Leave the Door Open

The Croatian director won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award for her film set in an IKEA store  

09/02/2022 | IFFR 2022 | IFFR Pro

Ştefan Constantinescu • Director of Man and Dog

“Romania and Sweden are on two different planets altogether”

Ştefan Constantinescu • Director of Man and Dog

The Romanian-born, Swedish-based director explains the forces at work behind his feature debut, which world-premiered at Göteborg  

09/02/2022 | Göteborg 2022

Susanna Helke • Director of Ruthless Times – Songs of Care

"I liked the idea that this 'faceless mass' we keep referring to is now standing in front of the camera, singing"

Susanna Helke • Director of Ruthless Times – Songs of Care

The Finnish director encourages her protagonists to talk about their problems, and sometimes even sing them out  

08/02/2022 | DocPoint 2022

Rubén Zarauza  • President, Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster

“We hope to form bonds with emerging producers from Europe and Latin America”

Rubén Zarauza • President, Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster

The organisation has set up the Atlantic Film Accelerator, a production lab that will unspool on Tenerife in late February; the call for applications is...  

07/02/2022 | /Spain/Latin America

Maja Medić • Director of I Want You to Know

"I've never been more sure about anything in my life as I am about making this film"

Maja Medić • Director of I Want You to Know

In her project, winner of the Cineuropa Marketing Award at Trieste's When East Meets West, the director will dig into her personal experience of post-war...  

07/02/2022 | Trieste 2022 | WEMW

Sam de Jong • Director of Met mes

“Films lead people to believe they could become a different person, but at the end of the day, we are limited by our genes”

Sam de Jong • Director of Met mes

The Dutch director discusses his latest film by emphasising the power and responsibilities of those behind cameras  

04/02/2022 | IFFR 2022 | Tiger Competition

Leire Apellaniz and Marc Sempere-Moya • Directors of Cosmic Chant. Niño de Elche

“We were both enraptured when we saw him on stage”

Leire Apellaniz and Marc Sempere-Moya • Directors of Cosmic Chant. Niño de Elche

The filmmaking duo got up close and personal with the unorthodox Andalusian artist to assemble a collage and portrait of him that leaves room for his more...  

04/02/2022 | /Spain

Edgar Pêra  • Director of Kinorama – Beyond the Walls of the Real

“I am not attracted to realism, because I have so many more options to create a new reality”

Edgar Pêra • Director of Kinorama – Beyond the Walls of the Real

The Portuguese director challenges the visual habits of the audience with his 3D documentary  

04/02/2022 | IFFR 2022 | Harbour

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