Interviews

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

8313 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 11/07/2025. 654 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Stijn Bouma • Director of The Hunt for Meral O.

“I realised that as a society, we hadn’t understood what had happened at all: the devastation of lives”

Stijn Bouma • Director of The Hunt for Meral O.

The Dutch filmmaker explains why he wanted to transpose into fiction the dramatic, Kafkaesque story that opposed his country to many families forced into...  

19/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Michel Hazanavicius • Director of The Most Precious of Cargoes

“Each time, you gotta do your homework”

Michel Hazanavicius • Director of The Most Precious of Cargoes

The Academy Award-winning director talks about the wide range of his work and gives us an insight into the making of his animated film  

19/11/2024 | /France/Belgium

Bogdan Mureşanu • Director of The New Year That Never Came

“I wanted to make a ‘feel good’ movie”

Bogdan Mureşanu • Director of The New Year That Never Came

The filmmaker decrypts his virtuoso and joyful tragicomedy made of six intertwined stories over 24 hours, at the turn of the 1989 Romanian revolution  

18/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Marcin Koszałka • Director of White Courage

“What’s always interested me is people put in extraordinary circumstances”

Marcin Koszałka • Director of White Courage

The Polish filmmaker traces the genesis of a very ambitious film that blends together the great History and the small one, collaboration and resistance,...  

15/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Rashid Masharawi • Director of Passing Dreams

“Palestinians find themselves in absurd or ironic situations, and I think that laughing about it is also a form of resistance”

Rashid Masharawi • Director of Passing Dreams

The established filmmaker speaks about his bittersweet road movie centred on a boy who stubbornly follows a carrier pigeon across Palestine, believing it...  

15/11/2024 | Cairo 2024

Luigi Cozzi • Director

“Time is the only way of judging whether a movie is good, bad or useless”

Luigi Cozzi • Director

The Italian director, who is being celebrated at Finland’s Night Visions, talks about Dario Argento, sci-fi and his very own little shop of horrors  

15/11/2024 | /Italy

Lorna Tucker • Director of Garbo: Where Did You Go?

“I want to make sure that people can see that these gods that we create are terribly human”

Lorna Tucker • Director of Garbo: Where Did You Go?

The British director breaks down her third documentary on complex females who have inspired her  

15/11/2024 | Stockholm 2024

José Luis Alcaine • Director of photography

“In my line of work, one should never think that one knows everything already”

José Luis Alcaine • Director of photography

We chatted to the seasoned DoP, who has won an Honorary Mikeldi at Zinebi this year, about his career and what he views as the golden age of cinema  

15/11/2024 | Zinebi 2024

Manuel Cristóbal • Director, Seville European Film Festival

"A festival is about enjoying a movie in a theater with people who love movies"

Manuel Cristóbal • Director, Seville European Film Festival

The Spanish producer discusses his first edition at the helm of the event, taking place between 8 and 16 November  

15/11/2024 | Seville 2024

Jurijs Saule • Director of Martin Reads the Quran

"This dialogue between two people who don’t want to talk to each other, but they still can do it – this is important for me"

Jurijs Saule • Director of Martin Reads the Quran

We caught up with the German filmmaker to talk about his film, which sees a professor of Islamic studies and a potential bomber engage in a verbal duel  

15/11/2024 | Lecce 2024

Carlos Marqués-Marcet • Director of They Will Be Dust

"I think about death a lot and that makes me very happy"

Carlos Marqués-Marcet • Director of They Will Be Dust

The Catalan filmmaker talks about his musical about love, family and the final goodbye, giving us some hints about the complexities involved  

14/11/2024 | Spain/Italy/Switzerland

Marek Šulík • Director of Ms. President

“People can hate women in power because they’ve been told to hate them”

Marek Šulík • Director of Ms. President

We talked to the Slovak filmmaker, whose documentary has already triumphed in Ji.hlava, about the challenges of filming the former leader of his country  

14/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Doc@PÖFF

Mirona Radu • Director, Mindful Photography and Cinema

"Through photography and film, patients not only express their emotions but also construct their own narratives"

Mirona Radu • Director, Mindful Photography and Cinema

The Romanian filmmaker and researcher discusses the programme of workshops, screenings and discussions that merges art with emotional healing  

14/11/2024 | /Romania

Kumjana Novakova • Director of Silence of Reason

"We have to get as close as possible to the ones who survived, to the ones who preserve life"

Kumjana Novakova • Director of Silence of Reason

The director tells us about her video essay made from the testimonies of women who suffered violence in the so-called "rape camp" in Foča during the Balkan war  

14/11/2024 | Bosnia and Herzegovina/North Macedonia

Rodrigo Brum • Head, Cairo Film Connection

"It was crucial to me that the selection reflected not my taste, but the diversity of stories and aesthetic approaches from the region"

Rodrigo Brum • Head, Cairo Film Connection

We sat down to discuss the 10th edition of the Cairo International Film Festival's platform presenting upcoming fiction and documentary feature projects...  

13/11/2024 | Cairo 2024

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