Interviews

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

8497 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 29/10/2025. 654 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Eliza Petkova, Nicolas Kronauer • Director and producer of The Worker

“The film stands for the dissonance between what we hope for and what actually awaits us in the world”

Eliza Petkova, Nicolas Kronauer • Director and producer of The Worker

The Bulgarian director and German producer break down their upcoming film, which won the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at Industry@Tallinn &...  

29/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Paul Kowalski • Director of Sardinia

“There’s something to be said for the uniqueness of each struggle shaping the final creative product”

Paul Kowalski • Director of Sardinia

The UK-born director of Polish heritage breaks down his short film, which has been longlisted for the 2025 Academy Awards  

29/11/2024 | /USA/Poland

Maciej J Drygas • Director of Trains

“This film has a dark conclusion: we don’t learn from our mistakes; we repeat them”

Maciej J Drygas • Director of Trains

We chatted to the Polish documentary director, whose recent IDFA winner reflects on the atrocities and joys of the 20th century  

29/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Kamal Aljafari • Director of A Fidai Film

"This film is not only about Palestine, but about any place that has been occupied and any people subjected to oppression"

Kamal Aljafari • Director of A Fidai Film

The Palestinian director talks about his feature built from archival images looted by the Israeli army that the filmmaker reworked to express the reality of...  

28/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Gábor Böszörményi • Distributor, Mozinet

“We are witnessing the rise of Hungarian independent films”

Gábor Böszörményi • Distributor, Mozinet

The distributor spoke about his firm’s business model, some of its successful campaigns and the peculiarities of the Hungarian market, among other topics  

28/11/2024 | Distributor of the Month

Sacha Amaral • Director of The Pleasure Is Mine

“I’ve always had in mind an ambiguous character who doesn’t know the meaning of his path yet but wants something”

Sacha Amaral • Director of The Pleasure Is Mine

The Buenos Aires-based Brazilian director discusses the desires and motivations of his enigmatic 20-year-old protagonist  

28/11/2024 | Gijón 2024

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

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