Interviews

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

8443 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 19/09/2025. 644 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Dāvis Sīmanis • Director of The Year Before the War

“From the beginning, I wanted to focus on an eclectic visual style”

Dāvis Sīmanis • Director of The Year Before the War

We talked to the Latvian director, who presented his third feature film at the International Film Festival Rotterdam  

10/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Big Screen Competition

Tim Leyendekker • Director of Feast

"The film is not a fictionalised documentary, not so much an account of what really happened. It's a set of proposals"

Tim Leyendekker • Director of Feast

The Dutch filmmaker takes on the Groningen HIV case, which saw three men deliberately injecting others with HIV-infected blood during sex parties  

10/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Tiger Competition

Alex Camilleri • Director of Luzzu

“For Malta to be itself, I chose locations that stayed away from the ‘picture postcard’ views of the island”

Alex Camilleri • Director of Luzzu

We talked to the Maltese director on the occasion of the premiere of his first feature at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival  

10/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

David Verbeek • Director of Dead & Beautiful

“It's not a vampire film, it's not a teenage coming-of-age film, it's not an arthouse film. I don't know what it is!”

David Verbeek • Director of Dead & Beautiful

We talked to the Dutch filmmaker, who has attempted to reach a broader audience with his new film  

09/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Limelight

Thomas Verkaeren • Distributor, O’Brother

“We have an incredible line-up ready and we cannot release anything”

Thomas Verkaeren • Distributor, O’Brother

We have met up with the Belgian company's general manager to talk about the Belgian distribution market and its current situation  

09/02/2021 | /Belgium

Kaweh Modiri • Director of Mitra

“For safety reasons, we couldn’t cast Iranian actors working or living in Iran, so we cast internationally”

Kaweh Modiri • Director of Mitra

We talked to the Dutch director about his second feature film, premiering at International Film Festival Rotterdam  

09/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Limelight

Anders Thomas Jensen • Director of Riders of Justice

“I love awkward situations, like when you have a funeral and everyone starts laughing”

Anders Thomas Jensen • Director of Riders of Justice

We talked to the director of the 2021 IFFR opening title, fresh off its wins at Denmark's Robert Awards  

09/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Limelight

Blerta Basholli • Director of Hive

“Kosovo is changing, but much more needs to be done to improve the status of women everywhere”

Blerta Basholli • Director of Hive

The Kosovar director talked to us to unpick her recent Sundance-winning feature debut  

09/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Zaida Bergroth • Director of Tove

“Intimacy was what we were after”

Zaida Bergroth • Director of Tove

We talked to the Finnish director about her latest film, chosen as the Finnish submission to the Oscars  

08/02/2021 | Göteborg 2021

Ronny Trocker • Director of Human Factors

“Personally, I like it very much when a film cannot be read in only one way, but it is also risky”

Ronny Trocker • Director of Human Factors

We talked to the German director, whose second feature premiered at Sundance, in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition  

08/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Amalia Ulman • Director of El planeta

“I don’t understand this crusade against humour”

Amalia Ulman • Director of El planeta

We had a chinwag with the artist, who has made her feature debut with a film shot completely independently, and toplined by the director herself and her mother  

05/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Marta Popivoda • Director of Landscapes of Resistance

"In my work, I always deal with the tension between memory and history"

Marta Popivoda • Director of Landscapes of Resistance

The Serbian director tells us about the genesis of her film playing at Rotterdam, the choice not to use archive footage, and more  

05/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Tiger Competition

Lisa Jespersen • Director of Persona Non Grata

“It's a humorous observation, not a degradation”

Lisa Jespersen • Director of Persona Non Grata

We talked to the Danish director to get the low-down on her film, celebrating its world premiere at the Göteborg Film Festival  

05/02/2021 | Göteborg 2021

Hogir Hirori • Director of Sabaya

“There were some dangerous situations, and I was stunned when I realised that they are part of the everyday life of the people there”

Hogir Hirori • Director of Sabaya

We talked to the Swedish director, whose documentary was shown at Sundance, in the World Cinema Documentary Competition  

05/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Pascal Tagnati • Director of I Comete – A Corsican Summer

"There are no real half measures when it comes to being and living in Corsica"

Pascal Tagnati • Director of I Comete – A Corsican Summer

The French director talks to us about his debut, an unusual and very well-made feature film which, world-premiered in the 49th IFFR’s Tiger competition  

05/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Tiger Competition

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