Interviews

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

8353 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 14/08/2025. 666 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Kamal Aljafari • Director of With Hasan in Gaza

“As strange as it might sound, I still don’t remember having shot all this material”

Kamal Aljafari • Director of With Hasan in Gaza

The Palestinian director explains the peculiar circumstances which led to him turning some lost tapes of life in Gaza in the early 2000s into a film  

07/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Tamara Stepanyan • Director of In the Land of Arto

“I wanted to recall trauma gently, without actually showing the war”

Tamara Stepanyan • Director of In the Land of Arto

The Armenian-French director discusses her first fiction feature, sharing insights on the casting process and on how she weaves real-life elements into fiction  

07/08/2025 | Locarno 2025 | Piazza Grande

Giona A Nazzaro • Artistic director, Locarno Film Festival

“Today, Locarno is an indispensable observatory to understand where contemporary cinema is at”

Giona A Nazzaro • Artistic director, Locarno Film Festival

The artistic director of the Swiss gathering talked to us about this year’s programme and about the importance of building an offering that adequately...  

05/08/2025 | Locarno 2025

Sonora Broka  •  Artistic Director of Riga International Film Festival

“Film festivals are a celebration, it gives us the opportunity to meet and gather”

Sonora Broka • Artistic Director of Riga International Film Festival

Sonora Broka talks about shaping the film programme and the criteria that in her opinion makes for a good film to show at a festival.  

04/08/2025 | Euro Film Fest

Tilda Grossel Bogdanović • Director, Ponta Lopud Film Festival

"There are many competitive festivals, but we’re not part of that group"

Tilda Grossel Bogdanović • Director, Ponta Lopud Film Festival

We sat with the director of the Croatian festival to discuss their unique approach to small events with an accessible, high-profile guest list for young...  

31/07/2025 | /Croatia

Luigi Sales • Head of Content and Original Productions, Giffoni Innovation Hub

“We don’t make adverts, we make original content, entertainment, and edutainment projects”

Luigi Sales • Head of Content and Original Productions, Giffoni Innovation Hub

The expert discusses the role of the Giffoni Innovation Hub initiative, which is a key resource for audiovisual production and strategic planning aimed at...  

30/07/2025 | Giffoni 2025

Paul Wiegard and Vera Herchenbach • Distributors, Madman Entertainment

“European cinema, both fiction and documentary, represents roughly one third of our slate”

Paul Wiegard and Vera Herchenbach • Distributors, Madman Entertainment

The two Australian distributors dig deep into their work with European titles, and how their market is responding to industry and audience transformations  

29/07/2025 | Distributor of the Month

Christine Haroutounian • Director of After Dreaming

“The question of what constitutes the self is at the root of everything I make”

Christine Haroutounian • Director of After Dreaming

The director and artist of Armenian roots breaks down the origins of her film and explains how her powerful images and concepts came into being  

23/07/2025 | Golden Apricot 2025

Nikola Ležaić • Director of How Come It's All Green Out Here?

"We believe in our memory, but the only reality is the one we’re in right now"

Nikola Ležaić • Director of How Come It's All Green Out Here?

The Serbian director discusses his quiet, autobiographical road trip around a weekend across Dalmatia to re-bury his grandmother  

22/07/2025 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Bence Fliegauf and Barbara Bernáth • Director and producer of Jimmy Jaguar

"Jimmy Jaguar is a bodyless revenge demon looking for justice"

Bence Fliegauf and Barbara Bernáth • Director and producer of Jimmy Jaguar

The Hungarian director and producer discuss their film, a mixture of procedural realism with folk horror that blurs the boundary between reality and psyche  

22/07/2025 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Zaradasht Ahmed • Director of The Lions by the River Tigris

“Human rights have lost their meaning – look at Gaza and Mosul. Who are we talking to any more?”

Zaradasht Ahmed • Director of The Lions by the River Tigris

The Kurdish-Iraqi-Norwegian filmmaker shares behind-the-scenes details about his documentary, featuring citizens who act as guardians of cultural heritage...  

18/07/2025 | Golden Apricot 2025

João Rosas • Director of The Luminous Life

"My main character is built on doubt, rather than certainty"

João Rosas • Director of The Luminous Life

The Portuguese director unpicks his movie, which continues to build the fictional universe of Nicolau, a world he has developed since the character's...  

18/07/2025 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Varvara Hovhannisyan • Head of International Department, Golden Apricot International Film Festival

“For several years, our main goal has been to make the festival a platform for regional cinema – and we’re getting there”

Varvara Hovhannisyan • Head of International Department, Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Our discussion with the International Department head focused on the Armenian festival’s objectives, and how it has stimulated film production in the...  

18/07/2025 | Golden Apricot 2025

GoCritic! Interview: Mato Uljarević  • Director, short film Urosh

"I was using this biographical story to talk about the universal theme of the power of art"

GoCritic! Interview: Mato Uljarević • Director, short film Urosh

Mato Uljarević speaks about the challenges and rewards of creating his first short film, presented with the Zlatko Grgić Award at Animafest Zagreb  

18/07/2025 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2025

Pere Vilà Barceló • Director of When a River Becomes the Sea

"My film is based on interviews with more than 100 women who were victims of gender-based violence"

Pere Vilà Barceló • Director of When a River Becomes the Sea

We caught up with the director to talk about his movie, in which a young archaeology student is struggling to find her true calling all while recovering...  

17/07/2025 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

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