Interviews

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

8509 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 13/11/2025. 642 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
José Luis Guerín • Director of Good Valley Stories

“I can only conceive of filming out of affection”

José Luis Guerín • Director of Good Valley Stories

The filmmaker returns to the festival where he previously triumphed and talks about young directors, the human diversity that populates his new film and how...  

29/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Stroma Cairns, Imogen West  • Director and producer of The Son and the Sea

“Other than being conscious of Jonah’s growing up without a father, we are both interested in the sort of lost boys of today”

Stroma Cairns, Imogen West • Director and producer of The Son and the Sea

The British filmmakers talk to us about their movie, which is both a reflection on young men today and an intimate, deeply personal family story  

29/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Alice Winocour, Louis Garrel • Director of and actor in Couture

“The film is really about this immediate connection you can have with someone coming from another world”

Alice Winocour, Louis Garrel • Director of and actor in Couture

The director and actor share their understanding of the movie’s intricate themes of body politics, sexuality and finding connections in seemingly different...  

26/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Emilie Thalund • Director of Weightless

“I really wanted to take this young girl seriously, and to actually make her a complex person, like all of us are”

Emilie Thalund • Director of Weightless

The Danish filmmaker chatted to us about her first feature film, a coming-of-age story about a girl who spends her first summer away from home at a health...  

26/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Olmo Omerzu • Director of Ungrateful Beings

“The drama in the film is based around white lies, but then lies become bigger and darker”

Olmo Omerzu • Director of Ungrateful Beings

The Czech filmmaker challenges the limits of what’s right and wrong in the story of two separated fathers who struggle to save their older teenage...  

26/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

José Alayón • Director of Dance of the Living

“In Canarian wrestling, I saw a metaphor for life, resilience and the personal conflicts we all live through”

José Alayón • Director of Dance of the Living

The director talks about the origins, challenges and metaphors of his second feature, built around the traditional sport of the Canary Islands  

26/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

György Pálfi  • Director of Hen

“I needed to place this small creature in a grand human tragedy and see what would happen when those two worlds collided”

György Pálfi • Director of Hen

The Hungarian director tells us about the risky venture of making a highly creative film where the main protagonist is a hen roaming the world of humans  

25/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

Malika Rabahallah • Director, Filmfest Hamburg

“It’s important to present films that give us hope and show that it makes sense to keep fighting for community, solidarity and democracy”

Malika Rabahallah • Director, Filmfest Hamburg

The festival director outlines her approach to making the gathering more vibrant and international, with a strong focus on networking opportunities  

25/09/2025 | Hamburg 2025

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa • Director of Sundays

“When conflict arises in our own home, we find it very difficult to be tolerant”

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa • Director of Sundays

The Basque director discusses her new film, a long-cherished project that explores adolescence, respect, family conflicts and crises of faith  

25/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Aitor Arregi and José Mari Goenaga  • Directors of Maspalomas

“Society has established that it’s preferable to think older people don’t have sex”

Aitor Arregi and José Mari Goenaga • Directors of Maspalomas

The Basque filmmakers admit they learned a great deal from this foray into gay culture, while also broaching topics like sexuality in later life and the...  

25/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Agnieszka Holland  • Director of Franz

“If I wanted to somehow find a new perspective myself, I had to look for fragments, pieces, puzzles and layers – I had to make it funky”

Agnieszka Holland • Director of Franz

The Polish filmmaker explores her personal connection to her central subject, and how she sought to bring him to life in a bright and offbeat way  

24/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

Pierre Schoeller  • Director of The Rembrandt Syndrome

"The times we’re living in make all of us ask questions"

Pierre Schoeller • Director of The Rembrandt Syndrome

The French filmmaker decodes an audacious tale blending fiction and realism, and bewitchment and climate-based, scientific questions  

24/09/2025 | /France/Belgium

Otso Tiainen • Director of Shadowland

“It was very draining to build a film on top of another film that never came to be”

Otso Tiainen • Director of Shadowland

We discussed the Finnish director’s account of an esoteric group of people gathering in the French Pyrenees in order to practise various forms of magic and...  

24/09/2025 | Nordisk Panorama 2025

Fabian Massah • Head, Filmfest Hamburg Industry Days

“The whole ecosystem has to come together and think about tangible solutions to ensure the future of film promotion”

Fabian Massah • Head, Filmfest Hamburg Industry Days

The German producer and new industry head gives an insight into his approach to organising the event in Hamburg that attracts film professionals from all...  

24/09/2025 | Hamburg 2025 | Filmfest Hamburg Industry Days

Milagros Mumenthaler • Director of The Currents

“I liked that contradiction of water as this comforting place that she somehow couldn't leave”

Milagros Mumenthaler • Director of The Currents

The Swiss-Argentinian director shares the secrets behind her third feature, which beautifully engages with themes of depression, motherhood and the ungraspable  

24/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | Competition

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