Interviews

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

8334 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 04/08/2025. 666 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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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

Boris Guts • Director of Deaf Lovers

"My characters are in limbo, walking from heaven to hell"

Boris Guts • Director of Deaf Lovers

The Russian-born filmmaker discusses his a tale of a Ukrainian woman and a Russian man, both deaf, who meet in Istanbul while there’s a war going on back home  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Viktor Tauš • Director of Girl America

"Hope and faith have a transformative power"

Viktor Tauš • Director of Girl America

The Czech filmmaker delves into his newest film, about a little girl in a strict socialist orphanage who tries to overcome fears, insecurity and loneliness  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Juris Kursietis • Director of The Exalted

"I wanted the story to be a clash between art and money"

Juris Kursietis • Director of The Exalted

The filmmaker discusses his follow-up to his Cannes Directors' Fortnight entry Oleg, about a German organist who discovers her Latvian husband's involvement...  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

"I tried to show how brutal a man's world can be without women in a rural area of Turkey"

Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

The Turkish filmmaker discusses his new feature, a daring boy's journey against the cruel entanglements of deception and disabilities of the adult world  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Eric Lamhène, Rae Lyn Lee • Writer-director and writer-cinematographer of Breathing Underwater

"If it helps change just one life for the better, this film will have fulfilled its purpose"

Eric Lamhène, Rae Lyn Lee • Writer-director and writer-cinematographer of Breathing Underwater

The filmmakers discuss the genesis and process behind their film following the journey of a woman in a situation of violence finding a new life  

22/11/2024 | Lecce 2024

Daniel Espinosa • Director of The Helicopter Heist

“I’m known and regarded as an OK guy who makes cool movies with an emphatic depiction of these surroundings”

Daniel Espinosa • Director of The Helicopter Heist

We found out how the heist miniseries took the Swedish director on a journey that sometimes saw him cross paths with his own past  

22/11/2024 | Stockholm 2024

Eszter Angyalosy • Head of Studies, TFL SeriesLab

“I think it's a false promise to tell somebody that all you need is a great idea, you need much more than that to make it in this industry”

Eszter Angyalosy • Head of Studies, TFL SeriesLab

Cineuropa talked to the Hungarian screenwriter and story editor about the characteristics and innovations of the TorinoFilmLab programme dedicated to TV...  

22/11/2024 | TorinoFilmLab 2024

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