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.

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Aleksandra Terpińska • Director of Other People

“The most important thing was to translate the poetry of the verses into the poetry of the images”

Aleksandra Terpińska • Director of Other People

The Polish director has crafted a modern musical about a young man who numbs his longing for love and affection with alcohol and an insignificant fling  

26/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | First Feature Competition

David Varela • Director of Un cielo impasible

“We ought to have explored our history more self-critically”

David Varela • Director of Un cielo impasible

The documentary filmmaker takes a scathing look at historical memory and the education system in his second full-length feature, screening as part of the...  

26/11/2021 | Gijón 2021

Wojciech Smarzowski • Director of The Wedding Day

“Sweeping the truth about past crimes under the rug can easily lead to new crimes”

Wojciech Smarzowski • Director of The Wedding Day

We chatted to the Polish director about his new film and his tendency to tackle difficult events from his country’s history  

26/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Kristijonas Vildziunas • Director of Songs for a Fox

"As a civilisation, we’re not dreaming anymore, literally and metaphorically"

Kristijonas Vildziunas • Director of Songs for a Fox

The Lithuanian filmmaker talks about his new film, which merges magical fantasy, heart-rending drama and rocky musical with post-soviet realities  

25/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Uģis Olte • Director of Upurga

“If you reveal everything, the adventure ends”

Uģis Olte • Director of Upurga

In the Latvian helmer’s film, a group of influencers descends on a forest, but this time, it’s nature’s turn to have all the fun  

24/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Baltic Film Competition

Liliana Torres • Director of What Went Wrong?

"Women are not comfortable any more with having smaller wages than men, and that creates frictions in couples"

Liliana Torres • Director of What Went Wrong?

The Spanish filmmaker delves into her own past life and love interests to create an auto-fiction film, and talks to us about the process she embarked on and...  

24/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Dávid Csicskár and Balázs Zachar • Writer and producer of Elephant

“Women who drink are hiding it, but that doesn’t mean their families don’t know”

Dávid Csicskár and Balázs Zachar • Writer and producer of Elephant

We talked to the winners of the HBO Europe Award at MIDPOINT TV Launch 2021, hosted by Tallinn Black Nights’ industry strand  

24/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Barbora Sliepková • Director of Lines

"I imagine Bratislava as an aquarium, an incubator, a playground"

Barbora Sliepková • Director of Lines

The emerging Slovak filmmaker talks about her award-winning visual urban symphony revolving around the Slovak capital  

24/11/2021 | Jihlava 2021

Samira Elagoz • Director of and performer in Seek Bromance

"I wanted to make a real story where the trans protagonists are complex and troubled, progressive and admirable, problematic and relatable"

Samira Elagoz • Director of and performer in Seek Bromance

We discussed trans-masculinity and performative cinema with the director and protagonist of the cinematic performance  

24/11/2021 | IDFA 2021

György Pálfi • Director of Perpetuity

"This is a love story set in a near post-war future in Europe"

György Pálfi • Director of Perpetuity

The Hungarian director discusses his latest film, which dialogues, in stylistic terms, with the body horror and the perplexing meanings of his breakthrough...  

22/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Alice Lesort and Katarzyna Siniarska • Presidents, Europa International

“Our core business retains its true added value”

Alice Lesort and Katarzyna Siniarska • Presidents, Europa International

Market conditions, platforms, diversification, links with the press: the new co-presidents of Europa International, which brings together 45 sales...  

19/11/2021 | Europe

Margarethe von Trotta • Director

"Film is a way of looking at the world"

Margarethe von Trotta • Director

We chatted with the German film maker about her Mikeldi Honorary Award at the 63rd edition of the International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao  

18/11/2021 | Zinebi 2021

Lauris Abele, Raitis Abele and Marcis Abele • Directors and DoP of Troubled Minds

“There was kind of a mission to address bipolar disorder as an everyday problem”

Lauris Abele, Raitis Abele and Marcis Abele • Directors and DoP of Troubled Minds

We talked to the Latvian creative trio about their debut feature, which examines the fine line between artistic creativity and mental-health problems  

18/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | First Feature Competition

Rick Ostermann • Director of The House

“This is not an alien world that one can look at from a distance”

Rick Ostermann • Director of The House

In his thriller, the German director tells the story of a house that knows its inhabitants better than they do themselves  

17/11/2021 | Germany

Florian Hoffmann • Director of Whispers of War

“However specific our film’s story might be, it also has a universal component to it”

Florian Hoffmann • Director of Whispers of War

The German drama film examines the effects that the ongoing conflict has had, and continues to have, on the Kurdish-Turkish diaspora  

17/11/2021 | Thessaloniki 2021

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