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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Susanne Kasimir and Thomas Hailer • Administrative director and artistic director, Nordic Film Days Lübeck

“A lot of big careers started here in Lübeck, and it feels great to be celebrating with everyone again”

Susanne Kasimir and Thomas Hailer • Administrative director and artistic director, Nordic Film Days Lübeck

We talked to some of the team behind the Nordic Film Days Lübeck, as genre films and movies set abroad are due to dominate the programme of this year's edition  

03/11/2021 | /Germany

Nadja Tennstedt • Industry Director, DOK Leipzig

“It is not a very pretentious festival, and it has a cozy and inviting atmosphere. I want to build on that”

Nadja Tennstedt • Industry Director, DOK Leipzig

We caught up with the head of industry at DOK Leipzig about her first year in her new role  

02/11/2021 | Dok Leipzig 2021

Nora Lakos and Claudia Sümeghy • Director and producer of I Accidentally Wrote a Book

“It will be a playful film with lots of humour, even though it is a serious topic; humour is essential for all of my projects”

Nora Lakos and Claudia Sümeghy • Director and producer of I Accidentally Wrote a Book

We talked to the director and producer of the project that won the €20,000 Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at this year’s Cinekid for Professionals  

29/10/2021 | Cinekid 2021 | Cinekid for Professionals

Marek Hovorka • Director, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

“We are a big festival in a small town”

Marek Hovorka • Director, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

We talked to the festival director about the past, present and future of the Czech event, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year  

29/10/2021 | Jihlava 2021

Martin Mareček • Director of Out in Force

“We used to say it was a story about a man who wanted to be Superman but who became Genderman instead”

Martin Mareček • Director of Out in Force

In his documentary, the Czech filmmaker and teacher takes a closer look at film critic-turned-bodybuilder Kamil Fila  

29/10/2021 | Jihlava 2021

Guido Lukoschek • Head of International Office, Filmakademie Baden Württemberg

“The academy does not have any tenure-track teachers, but operates entirely with industry mentors”

Guido Lukoschek • Head of International Office, Filmakademie Baden Württemberg

Our conversation focused on the main opportunities offered to prospective students by the German film academy  

28/10/2021 | /Germany

Benito Zambrano • Director of Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake

“It’s therapeutic to cry in the cinema”

Benito Zambrano • Director of Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake

The Andalusian director has adapted Cristina Campos’ book of the same name for the big screen, and the result has been world-premiered at the 66th...  

28/10/2021 | Seminci 2021

Christophe Hermans • Director of The Hive

"Children’s bodies absorb their parents’ noise"

Christophe Hermans • Director of The Hive

We met with the Belgian filmmaker known for his documentaries, who presented his first feature-length fiction film: a thoroughly female huis clos  

28/10/2021 | Ghent 2021

Giuseppe Bonito • Director of L’Arminuta

“L’Arminuta embodies the various dualities inhabiting this film; she represents an attempt to reconcile opposites”

Giuseppe Bonito • Director of L’Arminuta

The director offers a few insights on his third feature film, which was presented at the 16th Rome Film Fest and awarded the BNL Prize  

28/10/2021 | Rome 2021

Diana Cam Van Nguyen • Director of Love, Dad

“Animation is a convenient tool for depicting fragile emotions”

Diana Cam Van Nguyen • Director of Love, Dad

We talked to the up-and-coming Czech-Vietnamese animator and director, whose latest short film keeps reaping awards on the festival circuit  

27/10/2021 | Jihlava 2021

Olivier Pairoux • Director of SpaceBoy

“The cinema I loved as a child, I didn’t find it in Belgium”

Olivier Pairoux • Director of SpaceBoy

We talked to the Belgian filmmaker, who delivers with his feature debut a marked wink to the US family-friendly cinema of the 1980s  

27/10/2021 | Ghent 2021

Branko Tomović • Director of, and actor in, Vampir

"I've always been fascinated with vampire stories coming from Serbia"

Branko Tomović • Director of, and actor in, Vampir

The German-born actor of Serbian origin discusses his directorial feature debut, which world-premiered at Sitges and has started its theatrical distribution...  

22/10/2021 | Sitges 2021

Martyn Robertson • Director of Ride the Wave

“You see Ben's parents in their most vulnerable state”

Martyn Robertson • Director of Ride the Wave

The Scottish filmmaker unpicks his documentary, which, while ostensibly a surf movie, is also a coming-of-age tale about 14-year-old Ben Larg  

22/10/2021 | London 2021

Rob Savage • Director of Dashcam

“I think we need to be careful not to confuse the real Annie Hardy with the movie Annie Hardy”

Rob Savage • Director of Dashcam

The British director breaks down his film, starring a podcast host who comes to London to visit a friend and subsequently finds plenty of demons  

22/10/2021 | London 2021

Julien Paolini • Director of The Raïs of Palermo

"It tells the story of the first non-Sicilian boss of the Cosa nostra"

Julien Paolini • Director of The Raïs of Palermo

We talked to the filmmaker, who is also co-director of production company La Réserve, to discuss his new project at the Cinemed Meetings  

22/10/2021 | Cinemed 2021 | Cinemed Meetings

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