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.

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Linnea Merzagora • Project manager, Green Film

“Our goal was to simplify the process by developing a common framework for producers across Europe, built by the industry, for the industry”

Linnea Merzagora • Project manager, Green Film

We explore the landscape of sustainable animation through the ANiMPACT initiative, which recently entered its pilot phase  

17/07/2026 | /Europe

Jack Wedge, William Freudenheim • Directors of Acid City

"That perspective really came from a desire to focus on how this place works and what the lives of the people who live here actually feel like"

Jack Wedge, William Freudenheim • Directors of Acid City

The New York-based filmmakers explore new ways to render the feeling of home in times of ecological collapse  

17/07/2026 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2026

Jon Frickey • Director of Ploo

“Eternity only really exists in mathematics”

Jon Frickey • Director of Ploo

The German filmmaker talks digital immortality and the "sweet spot" between kitsch and silliness  

17/07/2026 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2026

Nader Saeivar • Director of Hijamat

“I wasn’t interested in judging, I wanted to observe how mechanisms continue to shape people’s lives”

Nader Saeivar • Director of Hijamat

The filmmaker discusses his latest film, centred on a traditional Muslim family and community whose world is shaken when they discover that one of their...  

16/07/2026 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Jessica Woodworth • Director

“Mongolians, in general, are deeply connected to nature, to their vast and powerful landscapes, and to their omnipresent nomadic culture”

Jessica Woodworth • Director

The Belgian-American director discusses the acting workshop she led as part of the European Film Festival organised by the European Union Delegation to Mongolia  

16/07/2026 | /Europe/Mongolia

Erik Faltermann • Founder and managing director, Erik RCT Filmproduktion GmbH

"Ask yourself honestly: could AI do this just as well?"

Erik Faltermann • Founder and managing director, Erik RCT Filmproduktion GmbH

The German film industry professional discusses where AI actually delivers on set and where it fails, and what he would tell fellow producers about it  

16/07/2026 | Sponsored

Élie Wajeman • Director of Comète

“Paris is still vibrant, dangerous, moving, and violent”

Élie Wajeman • Director of Comète

The French filmmaker recounts the journey of an ensemble film that began as an alternative experiment in filmmaking and genre blending  

15/07/2026 | /France

Jerry Carlsson, Frida Mårtensson • Director and producer of Selamlik

“The queer perspective on war has not often been told in cinema”

Jerry Carlsson, Frida Mårtensson • Director and producer of Selamlik

The Swedish director frames a queer Syrian love story spanning Damascus and Córdoba, exploring exile, displacement and the search for home  

14/07/2026 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

Anastasia Tykha, Darya Bassel • Director and producer of Reminiscence

“Some families knew exactly what war was”

Anastasia Tykha, Darya Bassel • Director and producer of Reminiscence

The Ukrainian director discusses her psychological drama rooted in loss, exploring how families of Ukraine's missing soldiers live inside trauma  

14/07/2026 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

Michele Fiascaris • Director of Rain Catcher

"We created this character by trying to think and act like him, and that got us into trouble"

Michele Fiascaris • Director of Rain Catcher

The British filmmaker shared the references that shaped the film's visual style and philosophical underpinnings and reflected on discovering his protagonist...  

14/07/2026 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

Ivan Ostrochovský • Director of Only Beautiful Things to Look At

"The topic of forced sterilisation is universal, not only a phenomenon of socialist times"

Ivan Ostrochovský • Director of Only Beautiful Things to Look At

The Slovak director talks about his film, which revisits one of the darkest chapters of Czechoslovakia's history, the state's policy of forced sterilisation...  

14/07/2026 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Aung Phyoe • Director of Fruit Gathering

“Love is never a binary thing, a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’”

Aung Phyoe • Director of Fruit Gathering

The director discusses a story of longing, ambiguity and unequal privilege, and how he merged social realism with memory, confinement and imagined escape  

10/07/2026 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Bohdan Karásek • Director of Everything As It Should Be

“Prague is the capital of the country, but not the capital of life"

Bohdan Karásek • Director of Everything As It Should Be

The Czech director discusses moving from micro-budget filmmaking to a more structured production, his relationship with the mumblecore label and the search...  

10/07/2026 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

Jan-Eric Mack • Director of A Happy Family

“We wanted to reveal a side of Switzerland that is hardly ever discussed”

Jan-Eric Mack • Director of A Happy Family

The Swiss filmmaker discusses his first feature, which follows a working mother struggling to keep her children with her, and what audiences can take away...  

10/07/2026 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Miroslav Terzić • Director of 3 Weeks After

"This film provokes the audience to ask themselves: ‘What would I do in this situation?'"

Miroslav Terzić • Director of 3 Weeks After

The Serbian director speaks about the film's casting and working with an entire classroom of young actors, as well as using horror as a storytelling tool  

10/07/2026 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

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