Interviews

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

8592 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 20/01/2026. 639 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Christian Tafdrup • Director of Speak No Evil

“The ambition was to make the most disturbing film in Danish history”

Christian Tafdrup • Director of Speak No Evil

In the Danish director’s new film, there is such a thing as being too polite for your own good  

25/01/2022 | Sundance 2022 | Midnight

Anders Emblem • Director of A Human Position

“In so many relationships that I see, people are just so nice”

Anders Emblem • Director of A Human Position

The director talks about his second film, a character portrait starring Amalie Ibsen Jensen as a local news journalist who is struggling with her mental health  

21/01/2022 | Tromsø 2022

Víctor Matellano • Director of Mi adorado Monster

“I am transposing the games of my childhood to the big screen”

Víctor Matellano • Director of Mi adorado Monster

Surrounded by books and DVDs, we chatted with this lover of the Spanish fantaterror genre, who is releasing a documentary that portrays a filmmaker who took...  

21/01/2022 | /Spain

Mathieu Fournet • Director of European and International Affairs, CNC

"We’re optimistic that the crisis will begin to lift in the spring"

Mathieu Fournet • Director of European and International Affairs, CNC

Strategic European cultural assets, the AVMS Directive and expectations of change all form part of the CNC’s online "Independence in the Service of...  

20/01/2022 | /France

Thierry Michel • Director of Empire of Silence

"We can’t just stand back and watch forever, without saying or doing anything"

Thierry Michel • Director of Empire of Silence

The director uses his documentary to look back on 25 years of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the blind eye and deaf ear turned by the...  

19/01/2022 | /Belgium

Roberto Stabile • Head of International Relations, ANICA

“There’s a huge desire to get back to the relationship Italy and France enjoyed in the past”

Roberto Stabile • Head of International Relations, ANICA

On the occasion of De Rome à Paris, we discuss the various strategies in place to internationalise the Italian system  

14/01/2022 | /Italy/France

Roderik Smits • Film academic

“The question is to what extent film festivals with international appeal will continue to function as premiere events and provide a springboard for the distribution of high-profile films”

Roderik Smits • Film academic

The academic shared some key findings from his recent study titled European Film Festivals in Transition? Covid and Beyond  

13/01/2022 | /Europe

Ove Rishøj Jensen • Owner of Paradiddle Pictures and co-founder of DocCelerator

“People start shooting too early: you could label it as FOMO filmmaking”

Ove Rishøj Jensen • Owner of Paradiddle Pictures and co-founder of DocCelerator

We get the low-down on the new editions of the DocCelerator workshops, which will take place online in February, April and May  

12/01/2022 | /Denmark

Massimo Donati • Director of Diario di Spezie

“It was important for me to keep elements of film noir alive within a subversive structure”

Massimo Donati • Director of Diario di Spezie

The Italian writer-director speaks of the book-to-screen adaptation of this story exploring figurative art and the art of cooking  

03/01/2022 | /Italy

Juliette Le Baron and Alicia López Ríos • Project manager for International Development and project developer for the UK and Ireland, filmfriend

“The platform is dedicated to libraries – primarily, public and university ones”

Juliette Le Baron and Alicia López Ríos • Project manager for International Development and project developer for the UK and Ireland, filmfriend

During our conversation, we discovered how the filmfriend platform helps public and university libraries to build a vast film catalogue  

28/12/2021 | /Germany/Austria/Switzerland

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

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