Interviews

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

8323 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 17/07/2025. 660 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Rozália Szeleczki • Director of Cat Call

"My basic idea is that the more absurd I make things, the more they somehow reflect reality"

Rozália Szeleczki • Director of Cat Call

The Hungarian filmmaker details her film, which follows a 30-year-old trapped in a world of her own imagination for whom everything changes when a talking...  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Markku Hakala, Mari Käki • Directors of Giant's Kettle

"Unfortunately, the dystopian world we built is strikingly similar to the one we live in"

Markku Hakala, Mari Käki • Directors of Giant's Kettle

The Finnish filmmaking duo discusses their film depicting an inhuman black-and-white bureaucratic ultrasound world where nobody uses any words  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Kaveh Daneshmand and Gem Deger • Director of and actor in Endless Summer Syndrome

"My idea was to create a new-age erotic thriller with fresh social themes"

Kaveh Daneshmand and Gem Deger • Director of and actor in Endless Summer Syndrome

The Czech Republic-based filmmaker and actor discuss their film, in which the mother of two adopted children learns that her husband may be having an affair...  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Janez Burger • Director of Observing

"How can people watch a crime on social media without helping or calling the police?"

Janez Burger • Director of Observing

The Slovenian filmmaker discusses his film, based on a vicious crime after two friends beat a colleague and broadcast the event on Facebook Live to 20,000...  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics' Picks

Eeva Mägi • Director of Mo Mamma

“Watching cinema is like having butterflies in my stomach – it’s a feeling I would like to elicit with my films”

Eeva Mägi • Director of Mo Mamma

An intriguing new voice in Estonian cinema, the director reveals some of the secrets behind her deeply touching and personal movies  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Anna Kopecka • Programme director, Cork International Film Festival

“We aim to bring to Cork and Ireland the best and most important movies that were made and premiered in the past year”

Anna Kopecka • Programme director, Cork International Film Festival

The programme director talked us through this year’s highlights, her curatorial strategy and the main industry events organised by Ireland’s oldest festival  

23/11/2023 | /Ireland

Austėja Urbaitė • Director of Remember to Blink

“People only understand and judge situations from their own perspectives”

Austėja Urbaitė • Director of Remember to Blink

The Lithuanian director chatted with us about her debut feature, homing in on a French couple who adopt two Lithuanian children, which won a screenplay...  

22/11/2023 | Lecce 2023

Niki Nikitin • Curator, Critics' Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

"The Critics' Picks section represents global diversity in every sense, especially in the artistic and geopolitical realms"

Niki Nikitin • Curator, Critics' Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

The curator breaks down the second edition of the festival's new competitive strand devoted to powerful and artistically outstanding works that might...  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics' Picks

CHRZU • Director of Carlotta Moore and Me

“This is a post-truth shockumentary; it’s real if you want to believe that it’s real”

CHRZU • Director of Carlotta Moore and Me

Carlotta Moore, “the biggest movie star you weren’t aware of before”, finally gets her own film thanks to the Finnish director  

22/11/2023 | /Finland

Vita Maria Drygas • Director of Danger Zone

“Establishing trust was essential”

Vita Maria Drygas • Director of Danger Zone

The Lithuanian director breaks down how she tackled the topic of war tourism with an open mind  

22/11/2023 | IDFA 2023

Laszló Csaki • Director of Pelikan Blue

“Directors should only make films about the things they know”

Laszló Csaki • Director of Pelikan Blue

The Hungarian director immortalises a train-ticket scam in this animation for adults, the first-ever animated flick to be shown in Critics’ Picks  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Samuel Perriard • Director of 8 Days in August

“You’re together for 10-20 years, and then everything changes in just one or two days”

Samuel Perriard • Director of 8 Days in August

We met with the Swiss director at Lecce to talk about his film which was shot in Apulia and which revolves around a couple who call everything into question...  

21/11/2023 | Lecce 2023

Natálie Císařovská • Director of Her Body

“I would like the audience to understand that it’s also about her soul”

Natálie Císařovská • Director of Her Body

In this compassionate debut feature by the Czech director, the human body can be a tool, or an obstacle  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Volia Chajkouskaya • Founder and programme director, Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival

“For us, it’s important to highlight that we’re being welcomed in the European film-festival community”

Volia Chajkouskaya • Founder and programme director, Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival

In Tallinn, we spoke about this year’s hybrid festival, run by filmmakers in exile and showcasing the best of Nordic-Baltic cinema to Belarusian audiences  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Manuel Cristóbal • Coordinator, Seville European Film Festival

"I appreciate being surprised in a cinema more and more"

Manuel Cristóbal • Coordinator, Seville European Film Festival

Just before the start of the 20th edition of the gathering in the Andalusian city, we spoke to this award-winning producer and former advisor to the...  

21/11/2023 | Seville 2023

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