Interviews

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

8311 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 10/07/2025. 653 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Pelayo Muñiz Cabal • Director of Boreal

“We wanted the viewer to ask themselves: ‘Who am I, and how many different people can I be?’”

Pelayo Muñiz Cabal • Director of Boreal

With his sci-fi feature debut, the Asturian director zooms in on a family that falls apart under strange circumstances  

28/11/2024 | Gijón 2024

Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori • Director and co-director of Writing Hawa

“It’s not just my mum's story; it’s also the story of so many other women who have been through the same experiences”

Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori • Director and co-director of Writing Hawa

The director and co-director, also siblings, describe the shared intentions behind their film, a personal look at their mother’s life and three generations...  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Anna Recalde Miranda • Director of Green Is the New Red

“The label of activism is the best one in the world”

Anna Recalde Miranda • Director of Green Is the New Red

The Italian-Paraguayan director analyses her sharp, critical look at Paraguay’s political past and present  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Lidija Zelovic • Director of Home Game

“When you’ve lived through a political disaster, you no longer see politics as something that happens during the evening news”

Lidija Zelovic • Director of Home Game

We sat down to chat to the director about her film, which constitutes a warning against sweeping politics under the rug  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Mathijs Poppe • Director of The Jacket

“We are constantly projecting futures but also pasts, and we are trying to make sense of the world around us through fiction”

Mathijs Poppe • Director of The Jacket

The Belgian director speaks about using a blend of documentary and fiction to create a story that reckons with the past, present and Palestinian hopes for...  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Serhat Karaaslan, Laure Dahout • Director and producer of The Criminals

"It's about today's Turkey, but at same time about love and desire, and people can identify with it easily"

Serhat Karaaslan, Laure Dahout • Director and producer of The Criminals

The Turkish director and his French producer talk about their project of a social realistic thriller which won the Eurimages Award at the 17th TFL Meeting Event  

27/11/2024 | TorinoFilmLab 2024

Eliza Petkova • Director of Silent Observers

“I was questioning the idea that we’re more intelligent than, or simply superior to, the animal world”

Eliza Petkova • Director of Silent Observers

The Bulgarian director discusses the joys and surprises of working with animals during the making of her new hybrid documentary  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Alec Von Bargen • Head of Studies, TFL Comedy Lab

“If an actor is generous, they’ll take such a strong hold of the character that you, as a writer, will discover things you’d hadn’t even seen before”

Alec Von Bargen • Head of Studies, TFL Comedy Lab

The head of TorinoFilmLab’s new programme dedicated to comedy development explained how it all works and spoke to us about the four projects it has...  

26/11/2024 | TorinoFilmLab 2024

David Jovanović • Director of Sun Never Again

"It's an impossible choice: stay and die, or leave and forget your home forever"

David Jovanović • Director of Sun Never Again

The Serbian filmmaker discusses his first feature, a magical realism-infused tale of a family whose home will soon be taken by the mine next to the village  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | First Feature Competition

Paolo Marinou-Blanco • Director of Dreaming of Lions

"How do we answer the question of what makes life worth living?"

Paolo Marinou-Blanco • Director of Dreaming of Lions

The Portuguese director shares some insights into his film, a surreal and heartwarming comedy about euthanasia  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics' Picks

Virpi Suutari • Director of Once Upon a Time in a Forest

“The company of these young radicals made me remember how essential it is to stay curious”

Virpi Suutari • Director of Once Upon a Time in a Forest

The director tells us more about her film that proves that people still need to fight for the environment everywhere – even in Finland  

26/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Teemu Nikki • Director of 100 Litres of Gold

“The world feels bleak right now, but as long as there’s laughter, there’s hope, too”

Teemu Nikki • Director of 100 Litres of Gold

The Finnish director shares some insights into the process underlying the creation of his tragicomic characters and discusses juggling Finnish stereotypes  

26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Dechen Roder • Director of I, the Song

"What can we do in this mean world, with all these issues of copying, recording private things, secret songs?"

Dechen Roder • Director of I, the Song

One of the first female directors from Bhutan discusses her second feature, a tale of Buddhist karma, doppelgangers and melancholic Dzongkha songs  

25/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

Jaak Kilmi • Director of The Shadow

"I wanted an entertaining way to approach a divine Estonian poet"

Jaak Kilmi • Director of The Shadow

The Estonian director delves into his latest film, a portray of Juhan Liiv, a struggling poet and unlikely detective who lived in his country during the...  

25/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Eleonora Camizzi • Director of Pictures in Mind

“I already felt that this set-up could help us have real conversations, where we could really listen to each other”

Eleonora Camizzi • Director of Pictures in Mind

The Swiss director unpicks her process of pointing the camera at herself and her father, afflicted by schizophrenia  

25/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

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