Interviews

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

9046 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/09/2026. 605 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
The winners of the CineLink Industry Days

"CineLink is a pivotal programme in the region, but also across Europe"

The winners of the CineLink Industry Days

We caught up with some of the winners of the CineLink Industry Days awards at the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival to hear about their projects and what the...  

26/08/2026 | Sarajevo 2026 | CineLink Industry Days

Petar Glomazić • Co-director and producer of To Hold a Mountain

“The funds’ support was decisive for our final production framework, enabling us to remain independent and fully realise our artistic vision”

Petar Glomazić • Co-director and producer of To Hold a Mountain

The Montenegrin filmmaker discusses the pathway to realising the award-winning documentary that he co-directed with Biljana Tutorov  

25/08/2026 | Indie Producer Focus/Herceg Novi 2026

Lucas Paleocrassas • Director of Bugboy

“My hope was that the film would make us look at these insects and at people like Yorgos with a little more curiosity and empathy”

Lucas Paleocrassas • Director of Bugboy

The Greek director shares his approach to his latest documentary, a topically unexpected coming-of-age tale entwined with a father-son relationship  

25/08/2026 | Sarajevo 2026 | Documentary Competition

Zvonimir Jurić • Director of Small Things

"I like characters who have a radical form of empathy and who think about the bigger picture"

Zvonimir Jurić • Director of Small Things

The Croatian helmer breaks down his intimate drama film, a chamber piece set over one winter weekend on a Croatian island  

25/08/2026 | Sarajevo 2026 | Competition

Urša Menart • Director of Everything That's Wrong with You

"I wanted to explore how much we are willing to do just to have someone and to relate to someone"

Urša Menart • Director of Everything That's Wrong with You

We caught up with the Slovenian director to talk about her film, which stars Anuša Kodelja and Klara Kuk as two young women, each weird in her own way  

25/08/2026 | Sarajevo 2026 | Competition

Milcho Manchevski • Director of Good People

“We decided to keep the film extremely ascetic, austere and minimalist in order to put the survivors and the heroes centre stage”

Milcho Manchevski • Director of Good People

The Macedonian director discloses how his documentary portrays the experiences of survivors of the Kočani nightclub disaster without resorting to artistic...  

21/08/2026 | Sarajevo 2026 | Documentary Competition

Felix Randau • Director of I Is Another

“If you push evil away or ignore it, it doesn’t disappear; it resurfaces somewhere else”

Felix Randau • Director of I Is Another

The German helmer breaks down his new film about Felix Kersten, masseur to Heinrich Himmler, as well as his visual concept for it and how best to represent evil  

19/08/2026 | Locarno 2026 | Piazza Grande

Nikias Chryssos • Director of Bloody Tennis

“I see the combination of real-life settings with totalitarian elements as playgrounds that can give rise to absurd humour”

Nikias Chryssos • Director of Bloody Tennis

We talked to the German director about his gripping and very funny horror film, as well as his fascination for tennis  

18/08/2026 | Locarno 2026 | Out of Competition

Basil Da Cunha • Director of O Jacaré

“Reboleira’s architecture reflects a very particular idea of community and of living together”

Basil Da Cunha • Director of O Jacaré

The Swiss director of Portuguese origin discusses how he created his passionate blend of comedy, drama and music  

18/08/2026 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Meritxell Colell Aparicio • Director of Far from the Trees

“Memory must be received through listening”

Meritxell Colell Aparicio • Director of Far from the Trees

The Catalonian filmmaker discusses her transnational exploration of exile, endangered languages and inherited memory shaped through sound and hybrid...  

17/08/2026 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Ann Oren • Director of Objet a

“My film addresses what it means to be a human on this planet right now”

Ann Oren • Director of Objet a

The German director talks to us about her second feature, psychedelia, surrealism and the human connection to the natural world  

17/08/2026 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Matheus Farias, Enock Carvalho • Directors of The Riverbank

“We want to craft bold stories that emerge from the reality of our country, but we also want to have fun making them”

Matheus Farias, Enock Carvalho • Directors of The Riverbank

The Brazilian directors talk about the power of cinema as a weapon against conformity, the catharsis of showing bodies that are different and the importance...  

17/08/2026 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Sarah Leonor • Director of D’ici là

"I tried to adopt a minimalist approach, but I applied it to universal subjects"

Sarah Leonor • Director of D’ici là

The French director sheds light on her triptych film set in natural surrounds, and her desire to plunge viewers into a sensory bath  

13/08/2026 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Salvatore Mereu • Director of Wandering Trees

“I wanted the landscape that is portrayed in the film to potentially be everyone’s - a landscape of the soul”

Salvatore Mereu • Director of Wandering Trees

The director talks about his movie, centred on three very different families who come together and clash around an impossible love story that transcends...  

12/08/2026 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña • Directors of Donkey Princess

“Donkey Princess springs from that exact encounter between the strange, the distorted, and the profoundly pop and recognisable”

Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña • Directors of Donkey Princess

The directing duo talk about venturing into the realm of fairy tales, myths and the unconscious, blending live action, animation and an imagination rooted...  

12/08/2026 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

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