Interviews

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

8637 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 13/02/2026. 626 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Derk-Jan Warrink • Producer, keplerfilm

“I find it very important to create a strong and trusting relationship with our talent”

Derk-Jan Warrink • Producer, keplerfilm

The Dutch producer, selected as one of EFP's 2022 Producers on the Move, talked about his producing work and his next projects  

09/05/2022 | Producers on the Move 2022/Netherlands

Judith Lou Lévy • Producer, Les Films du Bal

"Marrying pleasure and high standards is where the most powerful cinema experience lies"

Judith Lou Lévy • Producer, Les Films du Bal

The head of Les Films du Bal and French representative of Producers on the Move talks about her career, her editorial line, her projects and her vision of...  

06/05/2022 | Producers on the Move 2022/France

Anna Machukh • Executive director, Ukrainian Film Academy, and general director, Odesa International Film Festival

“Now Ukraine needs to be represented in the international cultural arena”

Anna Machukh • Executive director, Ukrainian Film Academy, and general director, Odesa International Film Festival

We gleaned some insights into the current situation for culture in Ukraine in light of the war, and the importance of amplifying the country’s voices  

05/05/2022 | /Ukraine

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

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