Interviews

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

8507 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 08/11/2025. 649 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Elisa Cepedal • Director of El Cine, 5

“My work in the past few years has been an attempt to understand my own identity and political commitment”

Elisa Cepedal • Director of El Cine, 5

The Asturian filmmaker has crafted a cinematic love letter to a past she grew up with  

28/11/2023 | Gijón 2023

Kim Foss • Distributor, Camera Film

“The 50+ segment is getting bigger every year because people stay in the job market, live longer and continue to go to the cinema”

Kim Foss • Distributor, Camera Film

The Danish exhibitor and distributor spoke about his company’s strategies and the current climate of the arthouse business, among other topics  

24/11/2023 | /Denmark

Chiara Zappalà • Manager, European Film Factory project, Institut français

“The programme offers an innovative and practical approach to supporting film education in Europe”

Chiara Zappalà • Manager, European Film Factory project, Institut français

During Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, we delved into this ground-breaking European project supported by MEDIA and focused on film literacy  

24/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Mercedes Fernandez • Managing Director, TorinoFilmLab

“The creative process can be very solitary; we provide filmmakers with a safe space where they can compare notes and experiment”

Mercedes Fernandez • Managing Director, TorinoFilmLab

We chatted with the international audiovisual lab’s project manager about its achievements and latest developments  

23/11/2023 | TorinoFilmLab 2023

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

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