Interviews

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

8469 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 02/10/2025. 654 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa • Director of Sundays

“When conflict arises in our own home, we find it very difficult to be tolerant”

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa • Director of Sundays

The Basque director discusses her new film, a long-cherished project that explores adolescence, respect, family conflicts and crises of faith  

25/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Aitor Arregi and José Mari Goenaga  • Directors of Maspalomas

“Society has established that it’s preferable to think older people don’t have sex”

Aitor Arregi and José Mari Goenaga • Directors of Maspalomas

The Basque filmmakers admit they learned a great deal from this foray into gay culture, while also broaching topics like sexuality in later life and the...  

25/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Agnieszka Holland  • Director of Franz

“If I wanted to somehow find a new perspective myself, I had to look for fragments, pieces, puzzles and layers – I had to make it funky”

Agnieszka Holland • Director of Franz

The Polish filmmaker explores her personal connection to her central subject, and how she sought to bring him to life in a bright and offbeat way  

24/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Pierre Schoeller  • Director of The Rembrandt Syndrome

"The times we’re living in make all of us ask questions"

Pierre Schoeller • Director of The Rembrandt Syndrome

The French filmmaker decodes an audacious tale blending fiction and realism, and bewitchment and climate-based, scientific questions  

24/09/2025 | /France/Belgium

Otso Tiainen • Director of Shadowland

“It was very draining to build a film on top of another film that never came to be”

Otso Tiainen • Director of Shadowland

We discussed the Finnish director’s account of an esoteric group of people gathering in the French Pyrenees in order to practise various forms of magic and...  

24/09/2025 | Nordisk Panorama 2025

Fabian Massah • Head, Filmfest Hamburg Industry Days

“The whole ecosystem has to come together and think about tangible solutions to ensure the future of film promotion”

Fabian Massah • Head, Filmfest Hamburg Industry Days

The German producer and new industry head gives an insight into his approach to organising the event in Hamburg that attracts film professionals from all...  

24/09/2025 | Hamburg 2025 | Filmfest Hamburg Industry Days

Milagros Mumenthaler • Director of The Currents

“I liked that contradiction of water as this comforting place that she somehow couldn't leave”

Milagros Mumenthaler • Director of The Currents

The Swiss-Argentinian director shares the secrets behind her third feature, which beautifully engages with themes of depression, motherhood and the ungraspable  

24/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

John Skoog • Director of Redoubt

“I was around eight at the time, and these little stories have haunted me ever since”

John Skoog • Director of Redoubt

The Swedish director breaks down his story of a farm worker who spends a fair share of the latter half of his life fortifying his house during the Cold War  

24/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Claire Denis • Director of The Fence

"The colonisation we’re seeing today is another kind called capitalism"

Claire Denis • Director of The Fence

The French director discusses the origins of her new film and the most significant topics she’s covered during her considerable career  

23/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Arnaud Desplechin  • Director of Two Pianos

"There are films with actors and films without actors, but they’re both fiction"

Arnaud Desplechin • Director of Two Pianos

The French director offers up his thoughts on his new movie - which is full of music, suspense and melodrama – as well as on film more generally and current...  

23/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Şeyhmus Altun • Director of As We Breathe

“I believe that what remains unsaid can be more powerful than what is spoken”

Şeyhmus Altun • Director of As We Breathe

The Turkish filmmaker reveals the personal memories that inspired his hypnotic debut feature, and tells us more about its mysticism and subtlety  

22/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Joanna Łapińska • Artistic director, Gdynia Film Festival

“It has been a time of diversity in Polish cinema; I’m particularly pleased with the expressive voices of young filmmakers”

Joanna Łapińska • Artistic director, Gdynia Film Festival

As Gdynia celebrates its 50th edition with special programmes and a nationwide anniversary project, the festival reaffirms its role as a key platform for...  

18/09/2025 | Gdynia 2025

Torsten Frehse • CEO, European Work in Progress

“With this new cooperation in Hamburg, we really have the chance to build something new”

Torsten Frehse • CEO, European Work in Progress

Taking place in Northern Germany, the eighth edition of this expanded European industry event offers 27 late-stage projects a platform to receive early...  

16/09/2025 | European Work in Progress 2025

Laura Almantaitė • Festival director, BLON

“We have become a boutique professional space where emerging creators can access industry veterans directly”

Laura Almantaitė • Festival director, BLON

The head of the Lithuanian gathering spoke about its evolving mission of becoming an unmissable event for European animation, gaming and art professionals  

16/09/2025 | BLON 2025

Kate O’Connor • Executive chair, Animation UK

“We campaign hard to rejoin Creative Europe and talk to our government representatives often”

Kate O’Connor • Executive chair, Animation UK

Our chat covered how collaboration with Cartoon has strengthened the UK’s European partnerships and showcased the strength of the country’s talent in...  

16/09/2025 | Cartoon 2025 | Cartoon Forum

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