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.

 
Jakub Gutek • Distributor, Gutek Film

"We’re always keen to promote new, fresh names and films we fall in love with in Poland"

Jakub Gutek • Distributor, Gutek Film

The Polish firm's COO unpacked their editorial policy, their successful distribution campaign for The Zone of Interest and the latest market shifts, among...  

30/09/2024 | Distributor of the Month

Francisco Lezama • Director of The Two Landscapes

“Comedy can adhere to reality more strongly than costumbrismo or realism”

Francisco Lezama • Director of The Two Landscapes

The Argentinian director discusses his next project, which was presented with the DALE! (Latin America-Europe Development) Award in the Europe-Latin...  

30/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | San Sebastián Industry

Sylvia Le Fanu • Director of My Eternal Summer

"I wanted to capture how being so close to death, in a sense, imbues both the good and the bad in life with intensity"

Sylvia Le Fanu • Director of My Eternal Summer

The Copenhagen-based writer-director discusses the emotional basis of her touching debut feature  

30/09/2024 | San Sebastian 2024 | New Directors

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa • Director of Querer

“Fear is powerful and invisible”

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa • Director of Querer

The Basque filmmaker presents her first series, which once again investigates the ins and outs of family, along with its complexities, private moments,...  

30/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Out of Competition

Sandra Romero • Director of As Silence Passes By

“I’m interested in family ties and the filmmakers who analyse them”

Sandra Romero • Director of As Silence Passes By

Although she has already co-directed the series The New Years with Rodrigo Sorogoyen, the director is competing with her feature debut, focusing on a return...  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Dennis Ruh • Member of the board of directors, Seriesly Berlin

“We learned that the future of conferences must include discussions on both successes and failures, and that younger voices should be given platforms to speak freely”

Dennis Ruh • Member of the board of directors, Seriesly Berlin

The former head of the EFM reflects on the first edition of Seriesly Berlin, discussing its bold approach to series production, industry trends and audience...  

27/09/2024 | Seriesly Berlin 2024

Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña • Writer-director and writer of The Wailing

“The horror genre is a very interesting vehicle in which you can use this kind of tale to tell a much deeper story”

Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña • Writer-director and writer of The Wailing

The duo explains the creative process behind their film as well as their way of understanding and utilising the horror genre  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Elisa Carbonell Martín • CEO, ICEX-Invest in Spain

“Our raison d'être is to drive prosperity through the internationalisation of talent-based industries”

Elisa Carbonell Martín • CEO, ICEX-Invest in Spain

The CEO of the Spanish institution talks about its work and the Spain, Where Talent Ignites campaign, aimed at promoting the country's audiovisual industry  

26/09/2024 | /Spain

Léa Todorov  • Director of Maria Montessori

“In Maria’s life, there’s nothing more tragic than being separated from her son”

Léa Todorov • Director of Maria Montessori

The French director talks about her film, which focuses on the legendary Italian pedagogue in the early years of her career, when her famous method was...  

26/09/2024 | France/Italy

Laura Carreira • Director of On Falling

“It felt important to show that even free time isn’t really free”

Laura Carreira • Director of On Falling

The Portuguese director explains how she puts us in the headspace of a warehouse picker in her remarkable debut feature  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Akaki Popkhadze • Director of In the Name of Blood

“Cinema is my way to tell people that I love them”

Akaki Popkhadze • Director of In the Name of Blood

The Georgian-born, French-raised director discusses his crime-thriller debut and its tender undertones  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Belkıs Bayrak and Bekir Behrem • Director of and actor in Gülizar

"We haven't seen that much Turkish male representation in cinema that gives us hope"

Belkıs Bayrak and Bekir Behrem • Director of and actor in Gülizar

The Turkish director and the actor share the thought process behind the filmmaker's debut feature, with an emphasis on the depiction of Turkish men in cinema  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Albert Serra  • Director of Afternoons of Solitude

“I work with images like poets work with words”

Albert Serra • Director of Afternoons of Solitude

The Catalonian filmmaker breaks down his way of understanding cinema and the creative process underpinning his new film, a bullfighting documentary...  

24/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Malika Rabahallah  • Director, Filmfest Hamburg

“No matter how different we may be, we can all sit next to each other in the cinema and laugh and cry together”

Malika Rabahallah • Director, Filmfest Hamburg

The former head of production at the MOIN Film Fund discusses her first edition as the director of the German gathering, the selection of films and the...  

24/09/2024 | Hamburg 2024

Pilar Palomero • Director of Glimmers

“The proximity of a death places us in another place in our own lives”

Pilar Palomero • Director of Glimmers

In her third film, the Spanish filmmaker touches on accompaniment in illness and how she brought the original story by Eider Rodríguez on which it is based...  

23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

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