Interviews

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

8327 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 18/07/2025. 662 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Nemanja Vojinović  • Director of Bottlemen

"I aimed to create an observational documentary, with the narrative driving force of fiction"

Nemanja Vojinović • Director of Bottlemen

The Serbian director discusses his film, a dive into one of Europe's largest unsanitary landfills, set in a suburb of Belgrade, which snagged the Heart of...  

21/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Documentary Competition

Una Gunjak  • Director of Excursion

"A film is a living animal; it never comes out the way you imagine it on paper"

Una Gunjak • Director of Excursion

The Bosnian director talks about her first feature, which depicts the turmoil of adolescence through a young woman who doesn’t intend to play by society’s...  

21/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Out of Competition

Goran Dević  • Director of What's to Be Done?

"In the film, the viewer and society also serve as the main characters"

Goran Dević • Director of What's to Be Done?

The Croatian filmmaker discusses his latest work, which approaches workers’ rights, corruption and governments’ disdain for ordinary people through the case...  

21/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Documentary Competition

Christina Ioakeimidi • Director of Medium

"I wanted this story to transcend time and place"

Christina Ioakeimidi • Director of Medium

The Greek director discusses her second film, which follows a young woman in love moving through the world in an insecure but steadfast way  

18/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Competition

Tudor Giurgiu & Cecilia Stefanescu • Director and writer of Libertate

"This particular episode about the chaos of the revolution in the aftermath of Ceaușescu's downfall is not well known in Romania"

Tudor Giurgiu & Cecilia Stefanescu • Director and writer of Libertate

The director and the screenwriter discuss their film, in which they explore the civil war-like events that took place in Sibiu during the last days of...  

18/08/2023 | Sarajevo 2023 | Competition

Ran Huang  • Director of What Remains

“It's not about the truth, but about my understanding of it”

Ran Huang • Director of What Remains

The Chinese director gives us the low-down on his unusual serial-killer story and his encounter with the Skarsgård family  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Out of competition

Weronika Adamowska  • Co-founder and programmer, HER Docs Forum

“We don’t want to create another unnecessary event”

Weronika Adamowska • Co-founder and programmer, HER Docs Forum

The co-founder and programmer of the HER Docs initiative explains how she aims to connect female documentary professionals and create a new, safer space for...  

17/08/2023 | /Poland

Victoria Musiedlak  • Director of First Case

“I’m interested in how a profession can change a person, and how a person will have to change to deal with their surroundings”

Victoria Musiedlak • Director of First Case

The debut feature by the French director stars Noée Abita as a young defence lawyer at the very beginning of her career  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Piazza Grande

Dominic Sangma  • Director of Rapture

“We need to stop, pause and see what's really happening behind the veil of fear”

Dominic Sangma • Director of Rapture

The Indian director enlightens us on the ways of translating the past into a cinematic, fictional present  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Hugues Hariche  • Director of Rivière

“The idea was to start with this damaged character and see how she could escape from her situation through her encounters”

Hugues Hariche • Director of Rivière

The Swiss-French director breaks down the inspiration for his intimate coming-of-age film, his approach to the aesthetics and what ice hockey means to him...  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro  • Directors of On the Go

“How can you consider being a mother when it's the first time that the doors are wide open for female filmmakers?”

María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro • Directors of On the Go

The Spanish directors of the experimental road movie open up about motherhood and self-love  

17/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Claudia Rorarius  • Director of Touched

“I try to get as close as possible to understanding life and emotions”

Claudia Rorarius • Director of Touched

The German director's first feature depicts an uneasy, but striking, story of two lonesome souls, a relationship rarely seen on the screen before  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Simone Bozzelli  • Director of Patagonia

“In my film, the strongest substance is love”

Simone Bozzelli • Director of Patagonia

The Italian director tells the story of a relationship of emotional dependency between violence and tenderness, and tells us of an Italy too often forgotten  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Colectivo Negu  • Directors of Negu hurbilak

“The aim of the film is to form part of post-conflict Basque Country, shining a little light on a part that we don't often see”

Colectivo Negu • Directors of Negu hurbilak

Two of the members of this artistic group, Mikel Ibarguren and Ekain Albite, reveal the keys to their experimental début work, which recalls the silenced...  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Patric Chiha  • Director of The Beast in the Jungle

“The novel really talks about all of us, about what we dream of living and what we’re really living”

Patric Chiha • Director of The Beast in the Jungle

The Austrian filmmaker of Hungarian and Lebanese descent tells us about his free and very original adaptation of Henry James’ novel  

16/08/2023 | /France/Belgium/Austria

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