Interviews

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

8499 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 30/10/2025. 653 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Andrei A Tarkovsky  • Director of Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer

“My father didn’t even like his films”

Andrei A Tarkovsky • Director of Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer

VENICE 2019: We talked to iconic filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky’s son, Andrei A Tarkovsky, about his unusual documentary Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer,...  

29/08/2019 | Venice 2019 | Venice Classics

Pascal Diot  • Head, Venice Production Bridge

“Our criteria are always the same: quality, quality and quality”

Pascal Diot • Head, Venice Production Bridge

VENICE 2019: We chatted to Pascal Diot, head of the Venice Production Bridge, to gain an insight into this year’s iteration of the major Italian industry event  

28/08/2019 | Venice 2019 | Venice Production Bridge

Marijana Verhoef • Creator and co-writer of Playgirl

"Our mentor had the most amazing approach: he was really trying to get to the core of our project with us"

Marijana Verhoef • Creator and co-writer of Playgirl

We had a chinwag with Marijana Verhoef, the creator and co-writer of Playgirl, which scooped MIDPOINT's Marseille Web Fest Award at Sarajevo  

27/08/2019 | MIDPOINT 2019

Julie Zackova, Milada Tesitelova and Jan Tesitel • Team behind Willows

"At MIDPOINT, you get a chance to concentrate on the project and nothing else"

Julie Zackova, Milada Tesitelova and Jan Tesitel • Team behind Willows

We caught up with Julie Zackova, Milada Tesitelova and Jan Tesitel, the team behind the winner of the MIDPOINT HBO Europe Award at Sarajevo, Willows  

27/08/2019 | MIDPOINT 2019

Goran Matić, Ruxandra Ghitescu, Michaela Taschek and Vasilis Chrysanthopoulos • CineLink Industry Days participants

"CineLink really helps you move forward and open up to the international market"

Goran Matić, Ruxandra Ghitescu, Michaela Taschek and Vasilis Chrysanthopoulos • CineLink Industry Days participants

We sat down with some of the participants in the various strands of Sarajevo's CineLink Industry Days to get the lowdown on this year's edition  

27/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | CineLink Industry Days

Guro Bruusgaard  • Director of HIM

“We tell our stories and we greenlight ourselves, whether the film institute is on board or not”

Guro Bruusgaard • Director of HIM

We spoke to director Guro Bruusgaard about HIM, the winner of the Eurimages Lab Project Award in Haugesund last week  

27/08/2019 | Haugesund 2019 | New Nordic Films

Carlo Sironi  • Director of Sole

“I’ve continued to wonder what my life would have been like if I’d actually become a father”

Carlo Sironi • Director of Sole

VENICE 2019: We talked to Carlo Sironi, director of Sole, selected in the Orizzonti section of the festival  

27/08/2019 | Venice 2019 | Orizzonti

Katalin Bársony • Director of How Far the Stars

"What I love in my film is the fact that you see a natural friendship between a world-class star and someone who comes from a small ghetto"

Katalin Bársony • Director of How Far the Stars

We chatted to Hungarian filmmaker Katalin Bársony about her feature How Far the Stars, which was shown in Sarajevo's Documentary Competition  

26/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Documentary Competition

Henner Winckler  • Director of A Voluntary Year

A Voluntary Year is more about our fears of how things could be than how they really are”

Henner Winckler • Director of A Voluntary Year

We sat down with German director Henner Winckler to pick apart A Voluntary Year, which he co-directed with Ulrich Köhler and which screened at Locarno  

23/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Laurent Micheli  • Director of Lola

“Let minorities re-appropriate their stories”

Laurent Micheli • Director of Lola

We met up with Laurent Micheli to talk about his latest film, Lola vers la mer, shown this week at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival  

23/08/2019 | Angoulême 2019

Gyda Velvin Myklebust  • Programme director, New Nordic Films, Haugesund

“You’ll find a lot here to pick up and bring back home”

Gyda Velvin Myklebust • Programme director, New Nordic Films, Haugesund

We caught up with Gyda Velvin Myklebust, programme director of the New Nordic Films industry section of the Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund  

23/08/2019 | Haugesund 2019 | New Nordic Films

Siniša Gacić • Director of Daughter of Camorra

"The basic question was this: if you shoot somebody, can you love again afterwards?"

Siniša Gacić • Director of Daughter of Camorra

We spoke to Slovenian director Siniša Gacić to get the lowdown on his Sarajevo Documentary Competition entry Daughter of Camorra  

23/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Documentary Competition

Cătălin Mitulescu  • Director of Heidi

“In any story, age has a weight”

Cătălin Mitulescu • Director of Heidi

We chatted about love as a tango and unbalanced relationships with Romanian director Cătălin Mitulescu, whose newest feature, Heidi, is now competing at...  

22/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Radu Dragomir  • Director of Mo

“All I wanted was to tell a credible story”

Radu Dragomir • Director of Mo

Romanian director Radu Dragomir invites us behind the closed doors of Mo, his first feature currently screening in competition at Sarajevo  

21/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova  • Directors of Cat in the Wall

“We wanted to create a bridge between the East and the West to check if the grass was greener on the other side”

Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova • Directors of Cat in the Wall

We chatted to Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova, who are showing their first fiction feature, Cat in the Wall, at Sarajevo after a world premiere at Locarno  

21/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

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