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.

 
Kacper Lisowski  • Director of Judges Under Pressure

“I had to stay close to those faces”

Kacper Lisowski • Director of Judges Under Pressure

In his documentary, the Polish director shows people who, despite their government’s recent actions, refuse to be “muzzled”  

21/12/2021 | /Poland

Vincent Lowy and Raïssa Lahcine  • Director and director of International Relations, École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière

“We don’t train directors, producers or editors, but we educate sound engineers and DoPs as well as other related technical roles”

Vincent Lowy and Raïssa Lahcine • Director and director of International Relations, École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière

Our conversation focused on the main opportunities offered to prospective students by the prestigious French film school  

20/12/2021 | /France

Pnina Blayer  • Artistic Director, Haifa International Film Festival

“We’re still studying the online festival edition and we want to keep physical cinema but everything is so fragile, it’s difficult to plan”

Pnina Blayer • Artistic Director, Haifa International Film Festival

19/12/2021 | Euro Film Fest

Elise Jalladeau  • General Director, Thessaloniki Film Festival

“We are working on different options to continue to use online platform, but not as a cinema or streaming platform”

Elise Jalladeau • General Director, Thessaloniki Film Festival

19/12/2021 | Euro Film Fest

Albert Wiederspiel  • General Director, Filmfest Hamburg

“Festival and online can’t go really together - festival is about meeting people and experiencing the film together”

Albert Wiederspiel • General Director, Filmfest Hamburg

19/12/2021 | Euro Film Fest

Michel Hazanavicius  • Director

“It’d be good if there were some cinema left”

Michel Hazanavicius • Director

Theatres, media chronology, platforms, Final Cut: we met with the Oscar-winning filmmaker, jury president at the 13th Les Arcs Film Festival  

17/12/2021 | Les Arcs 2021

Adeline Margueron • Distributor, Le Parc Distribution

“The secret is always knowing your territory, and what the audience demands”

Adeline Margueron • Distributor, Le Parc Distribution

The Liège-based outfit’s head of distribution talked through her work in distributing animated and family-orientated flicks in the French-speaking part of...  

15/12/2021 | /Belgium

Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier • Directors of The Velvet Queen

"We’re all sensitive to this type of beauty; we need it"

Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier • Directors of The Velvet Queen

We met with the duo who joined forces with writer Sylvain Tesson to create a moving and fascinating documentary, which was unveiled in Cannes and is now...  

15/12/2021 | Les Arcs 2021

Srđan Keča  • Director of Museum of the Revolution

“I'm trying to be nimble and open about what a film can be”

Srđan Keča • Director of Museum of the Revolution

The Serbian director breaks down how he made his feature, which references an unfinished project from Yugoslav times with its title but blossoms into a more...  

13/12/2021 | /Serbia/Croatia/Czech Republic

Jérémy Zelnik  • Director of Professional Events, Les Arcs Film Festival

"We look for films which aren’t on anyone’s radar"

Jérémy Zelnik • Director of Professional Events, Les Arcs Film Festival

With its much-loved Work in Progress and Co-Production Village sections, the overall feminisation of the event and its approach towards new talent, the Les...  

10/12/2021 | Les Arcs 2021 | Industry Village

Miguel Eek • Director of The First Woman

“You don’t know what film you’ve made until it’s projected on the big screen”

Miguel Eek • Director of The First Woman

The Spanish filmmaker delves into concepts such as mental health and second chances in his latest documentary, centring on Eva, who is forced to face up to...  

09/12/2021 | /Spain

Ivana Kostovska and Marlen Komorowski • Researchers, imec-SMIT-VUB

“We expect policy debates to be infused with ideas on how to better refine investment obligations for VoD providers”

Ivana Kostovska and Marlen Komorowski • Researchers, imec-SMIT-VUB

The two researchers talked us through the European Union’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive and how it is having an impact on the market  

09/12/2021 | /Belgium/Europe

Nathalie Álvarez Mesén and Nima Yousefi • Director and producer of The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands

“A tropical, gothic drama about the historical colonization of the female body”

Nathalie Álvarez Mesén and Nima Yousefi • Director and producer of The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands

The director of Clara Sola and her producer spoke to us about their new project, the winner of the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, handed out at...  

07/12/2021 | TorinoFilmLab 2021

Mehdi Hmili • Director of Streams

“This proletarian type of character, struggling with reality, is my modern hero”

Mehdi Hmili • Director of Streams

We chatted to the director about his award-winning tale of a female victim of police injustice, who goes to prison for adultery  

07/12/2021 | Cairo 2021

Nora Martirosyan • Director of Should the Wind Drop

“My main question was: how, through cinema, can a country that has no international legitimacy exist visually and cinematographically?”

Nora Martirosyan • Director of Should the Wind Drop

Armenia's entry for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film is the portrait of a forgotten place seeking recognition  

06/12/2021 | /France/Armenia/Belgium

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