Interviews

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

8367 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 27/08/2025. 656 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

"You can almost smell nostalgia, but you cannot smell film — that's why the nature elements are the closest to how you experience nostalgia in real life"

Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

The filmmaker talked to us about her personal relationship to her script, casting decisions, and how she chose to portray nostalgia in her debut feature  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Mateo Ybarra • Director of Summer Camp

"I love observing conversations and people’s exchanges"

Mateo Ybarra • Director of Summer Camp

The director explains why he’s fascinated by groups and by the utopias which unfold within fleeting communities whose members all learn from one another  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Bright Future

José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

“A lot of it was about the everyday life of fascism and the small things, not the big picture”

José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

The Portuguese director spoke to us about relationships of power and how his new film has taken on fresh relevance today in light of unsettling political...  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Enrique Buleo • Director of Still Life with Ghosts

“I’m interested in demystifying this absurd world we live in”

Enrique Buleo • Director of Still Life with Ghosts

The Spanish filmmaker makes his feature film debut with a collection of stories featuring beings from this world and others  

07/02/2025 | /Spain/Serbia

Alexandra Makarová • Director of Perla

“It might be difficult to have sympathy for Perla because people grow up with this mother figure that’s always caring and loving”

Alexandra Makarová • Director of Perla

The Austrian director unpicks her portrait of a woman and mother, detailing her inspiration and how her own background influenced the script  

06/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Eileen Byrne • Director of The Mariana Trench

“For me, making films means touching people”

Eileen Byrne • Director of The Mariana Trench

The Luxembourgish director discusses her first feature, based on Jasmin Schreiber’s best-selling novel, as well as its characters, its portrayal of grief...  

06/02/2025 | /Luxembourg/Italy/Austria

Noëlle Bastin, Baptiste Bogaert • Directors of Vitrival – The Most Beautiful Village in the World

"It was important for us to interfere as little as possible with our fiction in the way people really live"

Noëlle Bastin, Baptiste Bogaert • Directors of Vitrival – The Most Beautiful Village in the World

We talked to the filmmaking duo about their new film, its anchor in reality and their work with non-professional actors  

06/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Sandro Aguilar • Director of First Person Plural

“I haven’t allowed myself to embrace humour before”

Sandro Aguilar • Director of First Person Plural

The Portuguese director discusses his new film, which proves that wedding anniversaries can be quite a trip  

06/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Ivan Salatić • Director of Wondrous Is the Silence of My Master

"It's more about stripping things off than adding layers to the acting"

Ivan Salatić • Director of Wondrous Is the Silence of My Master

We talked to the Montenegrin director about his second feature, its setting, its historical inspiration and the power of language  

06/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Tim Ellrich • Director of In My Parents’ House

“It’s important to show things we’re all afraid of”

Tim Ellrich • Director of In My Parents’ House

We sat down with the German director to delve into his story of a therapist who’s forced to balance the demands of her professional life with those of her...  

05/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Nicola Bellucci • Director of Quir

"Quir depicts a whole range of bodies, because the body is a political object"

Nicola Bellucci • Director of Quir

The director explains what it meant to him to meet a community which has chosen to turn pain into joy and how filming bodies can become a political act  

04/02/2025 | Solothurn 2025

Enrico Masi • Director of Terra incognita

“The film is a manifesto for a kind of cinema which finds the courage to go ‘hand-to-hand’ with the world’s conflicts”

Enrico Masi • Director of Terra incognita

Exploring the theme of energy supply, Masi’s new documentary is kicking off a tour of screenings in Italy’s biggest cities  

04/02/2025 | Trieste 2025

Maria Eriksson-Hecht • Director of Kevlar Soul

“I feel we have renegotiated what a child actually is these days”

Maria Eriksson-Hecht • Director of Kevlar Soul

The Swedish director, who has countless shorts and TV series under her belt, tells us more about the brand of social realism that she was after in her...  

04/02/2025 | Göteborg 2025

Ragnhild Ekner • Director of Ultras

“This is probably the grandest project I’ll ever realise – this was the one for me”

Ragnhild Ekner • Director of Ultras

The Swedish director tells us more about the background to her film examining global football fandom, which was seven years in the making  

04/02/2025 | Göteborg 2025

Maria Nicollier • Director of Road’s End in Taiwan

“I wrote the script while travelling”

Maria Nicollier • Director of Road’s End in Taiwan

The Swiss director explains why she decided to shoot her film in Taiwan and what were the challenges of having actors with very different personalities...  

04/02/2025 | Solothurn 2025

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