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.

 
Triin Ruumet • Director of Dark Paradise

“Bad things can be fun”

Triin Ruumet • Director of Dark Paradise

The Estonian filmmaker makes a case for facing your fears as she follows two siblings who are dealing with grief in unusual ways  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Baltic Film Competition

Grazia Tricarico • Director of Body Odyssey

"We wanted to create the voice of the body"

Grazia Tricarico • Director of Body Odyssey

The Italian director talked to us about what bodies are able to tell us, as well as her experience with the bodybuilding world and her artistic approach to it  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Caroline Ingvarsson • Director of Unmoored

“When you are constantly lying to yourself, you can’t be free”

Caroline Ingvarsson • Director of Unmoored

It’s time for a reckoning in this feature debut, a drama about a woman who finally confronts her husband  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Aylin Tezel and Yvonne Wellie • Director and producer of Falling into Place

"I think there is a form of magic in films with small budgets"

Aylin Tezel and Yvonne Wellie • Director and producer of Falling into Place

We met up with the makers of this multi-layered love story set in Scotland and the UK  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Patricia M Félix  • Director of Jo Sóc

"You start to understand how something that happens to you at school can leave a permanent mark on your personality"

Patricia M Félix • Director of Jo Sóc

The Catalan director has won the national section of Zinebi Networking with her project, which follows a group of children in a public primary school in...  

20/11/2023 | Zinebi 2023 | Zinebi Networking

Lucía Malandro, Daniel Saucedo  • Directors of La isla sumergida

"It's a human story that is obviously shaped by politics"

Lucía Malandro, Daniel Saucedo • Directors of La isla sumergida

The winners of the Basque section of Zinebi Networking tell us about their project, which focuses on the Cuban judicial archives and the person who has the...  

20/11/2023 | Zinebi 2023 | Zinebi Networking

Gust Van den Berghe  • Director of The Magnet Man

"I thought it would be interesting, in the era of superhero movies, to create a superhero who is actually not useful"

Gust Van den Berghe • Director of The Magnet Man

The director of the Best Original Score winner at Tallinn breaks down his film about a human magnet who struggles to find his place as an artist  

19/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Phedon Papamichael  • Director of Light Falls

"It's a very violent film where the First World clashes with the Third World"

Phedon Papamichael • Director of Light Falls

The Greek helmer follows a young couple on holiday as they explore an abandoned hotel; however, an accident and a clash of different worlds set off a spiral...  

19/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics' Picks

Batbayar Chogsom  • Director of White Flag

"In this film, nobody loses anything, but they do find something - their real selves"

Batbayar Chogsom • Director of White Flag

The Mongolian director delves into his Tallinn Competition entry, which hinges on two young women trying to start a new life in the steppe as nomads  

19/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Ivan Tymchenko  • Director of Oxygen Station

"The main message of the film is still relevant, regardless of the war"

Ivan Tymchenko • Director of Oxygen Station

The Ukrainian helmer discusses his Tallinn Competition entry, which follows a Crimean Tatar political activist who is now a people’s deputy of the Ukrainian...  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

David Baute  • Artistic Director, FICMEC

"Environmental film festivals are important, they are a necessity and they help to raise awareness"

David Baute • Artistic Director, FICMEC

The head of the programme of the International Environmental Film Festival of the Canary Islands talks about the event and its next edition  

17/11/2023 | /Spain

Călin Peter Netzer • Director of Familiar

"This is a personal story, but with fictional elements"

Călin Peter Netzer • Director of Familiar

The Romanian Golden Bear winner discusses his latest work, which follows a filmmaker trying to make a film about the lives of his parents in the most...  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Rita Azevedo Gomes  • Director

“I don’t care who I am any more; I will never find the answer”

Rita Azevedo Gomes • Director

The experienced Portuguese director is picking up an Honorary Mikeldi Award at Zinebi, and we took the opportunity to chat to her about her sprawling career  

17/11/2023 | Zinebi 2023

Petr Hátle  • Director of Mr. and Mrs. Stodola

"The suggestion or imagination of violence can be far more interesting and horrifying"

Petr Hátle • Director of Mr. and Mrs. Stodola

We talked to the Czech director about making the transition from documentary to fiction, true crime and violence, and the casting process for notorious...  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Tomas Vengris • Director of Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania

“We deny it, we want to think we are more complex, but everyone wants to love and be loved”

Tomas Vengris • Director of Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania

Already behind Motherland, the Lithuanian-American filmmaker turns to his own flat for inspiration  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Rebels with a Cause

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