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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

John Skoog • Director of Redoubt

“I was around eight at the time, and these little stories have haunted me ever since”

John Skoog • Director of Redoubt

The Swedish director breaks down his story of a farm worker who spends a fair share of the latter half of his life fortifying his house during the Cold War

24/09/2025 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

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