Interviews

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

9046 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/09/2026. 605 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Hilmar Oddsson, Hera Hilmar • Director of and actress in Driving Mum

"All good comedies are also tragedies"

Hilmar Oddsson, Hera Hilmar • Director of and actress in Driving Mum

We met up with the Icelandic director and his daughter, and actress in his latest film, to talk about inspiration and characters  

25/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

J-P Valkeapää • Director of Hit Big

"While writing this script during lockdown, in this atmosphere where you were scared of dying, I realised that this film was about the end of the world"

J-P Valkeapää • Director of Hit Big

We met up with the Finnish director and talked about his inspirations when writing and creating his new film  

24/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Béatrice Pollet • Director of And Yet We Were All Blind

“Women have problems making people believe them”

Béatrice Pollet • Director of And Yet We Were All Blind

We talked to the French filmmaker about her highly sensitive and disturbing drama about a woman who experiences pregnancy denial  

24/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Christopher Roth • Director of Servus Papa, See You in Hell

“I didn't want to make a documentary; I wanted the film to have its own sense of autonomy"

Christopher Roth • Director of Servus Papa, See You in Hell

The director discussed his interest in utopias and his wish to depict the power that comes with standing still  

24/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

"It was very important for me to show how the story is put together in the film, that the story didn’t exist prior to it"

Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

The Serbian director discusses the second part of her dyptich of documentaries, which re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement during the era of...  

24/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

Mika Kaurismäki • Director of The Grump: In Search of an Escort

“I like tragicomedies where something that you look at closely may seem very sad, and when you look from farther away, it can be very funny”

Mika Kaurismäki • Director of The Grump: In Search of an Escort

The Finnish director told us how he proceeded when adapting the story of a grumpy old man with a passion for old cars  

24/11/2022 | /Finland

Fisnik Maxville • Director of The Land Within

“At one point, I really wanted to write: ‘Inspired by thousands of true stories’”

Fisnik Maxville • Director of The Land Within

We sat down with the Kosovar helmer, whose debut feature follows a young man returning to his native village to take part in the exhumation of a mass grave  

23/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | First Feature Competition

Ciaran Creagh • Director of Ann

“We wanted to be with Ann and to give her a voice”

Ciaran Creagh • Director of Ann

The Irish director tells us why he wanted to adapt the heart-wrenching true story of Ann Lovett for the big screen  

23/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Irma Pužauskaitė • Director of The 9th Step

“To attract the public to this drama, I have adopted a levity in my gaze”

Irma Pužauskaitė • Director of The 9th Step

The Lithuanian director tells us about her film, which chronicles the efforts of a former alcoholic to rebuild his relationship with his teenage daughter,...  

22/11/2022 | Lecce 2022

Jon Bang Carlsen • Director of Dreaming Arizona

“The beautiful thing about ‘the real world’ is that it gives you resistance”

Jon Bang Carlsen • Director of Dreaming Arizona

According to the Danish director, there is no reality, so feel free to come up with your own interpretation  

22/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

Lea Glob • Director of Apolonia, Apolonia

"I try to find imagery that represents what the world looks like from our perspective as young women"

Lea Glob • Director of Apolonia, Apolonia

The Danish filmmaker discusses her IDFA-winning documentary, centred on French artist Apolonia Sokol as well as on her own views of the current world  

22/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

Nicolas Winding Refn • Director of Copenhagen Cowboy

“We could really call this series my ‘Greatest Hits’”

Nicolas Winding Refn • Director of Copenhagen Cowboy

The Danish auteur chats to us about his first Netflix series, entailing six intense hours of viewing, and about keeping it a family affair  

22/11/2022 | Stockholm 2022

Juan Soto, Chiara Marañón • Directors of Elena dio a luz un hermoso niño

“On one of the reels, I saw Franco going down a staircase, and that made me wonder, ‘Who was this family?’”

Juan Soto, Chiara Marañón • Directors of Elena dio a luz un hermoso niño

We sat down with the winners of the Spanish strand of Zinebi Networking to discuss their project based almost entirely around a family’s striking home-movie...  

21/11/2022 | Zinebi 2022 | Zinebi Networking

Ali Abbasi • Director of Holy Spider

“It really feels like 1942 and fighting Nazi Germany”

Ali Abbasi • Director of Holy Spider

The Iranian-born, Danish-based filmmaker seems to be slap bang in the middle of things, as his latest work gets increasingly topical  

18/11/2022 | Stockholm 2022

Ainara Vera • Director of Polaris

“I think that by making this film, I became less romantic about life”

Ainara Vera • Director of Polaris

The Spanish director breaks down how she made her fascinating documentary about two strong sisters who are poles apart – in more ways than one  

17/11/2022 | Zinebi 2022

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