Interviews

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

8557 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 01/12/2025. 640 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Elie Wajeman  • Director of A Night Doctor

"I wanted to treat him like some sort of private detective, winding his way through the dangerous, big city"

Elie Wajeman • Director of A Night Doctor

The director discusses his brilliant, existentialist film noir which was decorated with Cannes’ Official Selection label in 2020 and is finally on general...  

16/06/2021 | /France

Arman T Riahi  • Director of Fox in a Hole

“My film is an homage to how impactful teachers can be, but also how human and how broken they are”

Arman T Riahi • Director of Fox in a Hole

The opening film of Austria’s Diagonale goes full-on Dangerous Minds, but this time in prison  

16/06/2021 | Diagonale 2021

Marcus H Rosenmüller and Santiago López Jover  • Directors of Snotty Boy

“I’m curious to see whether audiences return to cinemas”

Marcus H Rosenmüller and Santiago López Jover • Directors of Snotty Boy

The German-Spanish directing duo discuss their animated satirical comedy inspired by the life and art of Austrian cartoonist Manfred Deix  

15/06/2021 | Annecy 2021

Yves Blösche  • Distributor, Filmcoopi Zürich

“We need to face new ways of communication from a local and worldwide perspective”

Yves Blösche • Distributor, Filmcoopi Zürich

The Managing Partner at the Swiss distribution company discusses its distribution and marketing strategies  

15/06/2021 | /Switzerland

Paolo Moretti  • Delegate General, Directors’ Fortnight

"What we’re most interested in is representing aesthetic, poetic and political landscapes"

Paolo Moretti • Delegate General, Directors’ Fortnight

The delegate general of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight comments on the films which have been chosen for the 2021 selection  

15/06/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Thomas Daneskov  • Director of Wild Men

“Boys are raised not to talk about their feelings”

Thomas Daneskov • Director of Wild Men

Forget the motorcycle – in Wild Men, midlife crisis is all about a bow and some animal skins  

15/06/2021 | Tribeca 2021

Levan Koguashvili  • Director of Brighton 4th

“I strongly believe in faces”

Levan Koguashvili • Director of Brighton 4th

The Georgian director shows that when you live in Brighton Beach, you don’t really live in America; you only go to America sometimes  

11/06/2021 | Tribeca 2021

Michel Zana  • Distributor, Dulac Distribution

“In order to overcome this period, we need long-term financial backing, as well as more flexibility on existing funds”

Michel Zana • Distributor, Dulac Distribution

The head of distribution of the French company shares his views on the country’s market and the specific Covid-recovery measures  

10/06/2021 | /France

Shariff Korver  • Director of Do Not Hesitate

“I didn't want to make a film about the bigger picture of the military, but to focus on the experience of being a soldier”

Shariff Korver • Director of Do Not Hesitate

The Dutch-Venezuelan director is at Tribeca to present his new film dealing with the trauma suffered by young soldiers  

10/06/2021 | Tribeca 2021

Marc Putman  • Project coordinator, UxP

“We’re working on a WordPress for VoD platforms”

Marc Putman • Project coordinator, UxP

During our discussion, we found out more about UxP’s mission to save European independent VoD platforms time and money through the development of a useful...  

09/06/2021 | /Europe

Thomas Robsahm  • Director of A-HA – The Movie

“What I like the most about documentaries is that you don't know exactly how the film is going to turn out in the end”

Thomas Robsahm • Director of A-HA – The Movie

The Norwegian filmmaker offers a homage to one of the most successful European bands of all time  

09/06/2021 | Tribeca 2021

Adrián Silvestre  • Director of Sediments

“There are so many clichés in films on transsexual topics”

Adrián Silvestre • Director of Sediments

The Spanish filmmaker breaks down various aspects of his second feature, starring six trans women on the road, which is competing in the documentary section...  

08/06/2021 | Málaga 2021

Nenad Puhovski  • Director, ZagrebDox

“It will take time to fight again for the lost individual identities and peculiarities of our medium-sized and small festivals”

Nenad Puhovski • Director, ZagrebDox

We had a chance to talk with the founder and director of ZagrebDox to get some insights into the 17th edition of the documentary gathering, set to unspool...  

08/06/2021 | ZagrebDox 2021

Charles Tesson  • Artistic Director, Critics’ Week

"Stories seem to unfold out of private, family predicaments"

Charles Tesson • Artistic Director, Critics’ Week

The artistic director of Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week comments on his selection for this year’s revival edition, following the various peaks of the...  

07/06/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics’ Week

Eoin Macken  • Director of Here Are the Young Men

“When you’re in a night club, listening to music, nothing else matters apart from your world and its orbit”

Eoin Macken • Director of Here Are the Young Men

DMovies sat down with the Irish filmmaker to talk about the adaptation of Rob Doyle’s novel, the challenges involved in transposing it to the silver screen,...  

07/06/2021 | /Ireland/USA

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