Interviews

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

8636 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 12/02/2026. 630 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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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

Russell Owen • Director of Shepherd

"There is no better magician than a good casting director"

Russell Owen • Director of Shepherd

The British director’s take on the same Welsh legend that inspired Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse gives the story a new, unique twist  

21/10/2021 | London 2021

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