Interviews

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

9051 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 02/10/2026. 605 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Bálint Szimler • Director of Lesson Learned

“We wanted to capture the essence of being a child”

Bálint Szimler • Director of Lesson Learned

The Hungarian director, who grew up in the USA but moved back to Hungary at the age of nine, can relate to the feeling of being an outsider  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Kurdwin Ayub • Director of Moon

“You can find a sister in another country, find common ground and help each other, no matter where you come from”

Kurdwin Ayub • Director of Moon

With her new film, shot in Jordan, the Austrian filmmaker tells a cross-border story of women's solidarity  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Nina Vindum Rasmussen • Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science

"Increased transparency would strengthen the sustainability of the sector in the long run"

Nina Vindum Rasmussen • Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science

The scholar breaks down on one of her recent journal articles, which examines how screen workers interact with streaming data despite widespread secrecy  

14/08/2024 | /Europe

Miguel Llansó • Director of Infinite Summer

"I wanted to have poetry in this film"

Miguel Llansó • Director of Infinite Summer

The director tells us about his latest movie, in which everyone is ready for transition  

14/08/2024 | Fantasia 2024

Sara Fgaier • Director of Weightless

"The possibility of radically changing your life after a loss has to do with memory"

Sara Fgaier • Director of Weightless

The experienced editor and producer tells us about her debut feature as director and the connection between memories and cinema  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Virgil Vernier • Director of 100,000,000,000,000

"I think it’s invaluable that films can open a window onto something unknown"

Virgil Vernier • Director of 100,000,000,000,000

The French filmmaker explains his fascinating work which is anchored in the timeless modernity of Monaco, and clarifies his rather unique approach to fiction  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Ben Rivers • Director of Bogancloch

"Oftentimes, you look at cinema and it's all about content, or all about the form, but I want them to work together in order to create a universe"

Ben Rivers • Director of Bogancloch

The British filmmaker tells us about his interest in repetition, as evidenced in his latest film, and his editing process  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Tato Kotetishvili • Director of Holy Electricity

"As my background is in cinematography, it was hard to let someone else shoot it"

Tato Kotetishvili • Director of Holy Electricity

The Georgian cinematographer-turned-director talks about his feature directorial debut, a production for which he wears multiple hats, serving as director,...  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Aislinn Clarke • Director of Fréwaka

"A lot of Irish women are very polite in public but, internally, they are screaming, they are funny, irreverent and sometimes rude and it is so refreshing"

Aislinn Clarke • Director of Fréwaka

We met with the Irish director whose latest film, starring two amazing female characters, is about inherited trauma and how we deal with it  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

Mar Coll • Director of Salve Maria

"We wanted to make a moving film, instead of being critical or distant"

Mar Coll • Director of Salve Maria

The Catalan filmmaker discusses her newest film, a genre-bending look at postpartum depression and the irrational aspects of motherhood  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino • Directors of Luce

“Marianna Fontana's face is the film's landscape”

Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino • Directors of Luce

The directing duo talks to Cineuropa about the film's spectacular lead and the archetypal figure she plays  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

César Díaz • Director of Mexico 86

"In the collective imaginary, a father who leaves home to fight is a hero, whereas a mother who does the same is irresponsible"

César Díaz • Director of Mexico 86

We met with the Belgian-Guatemalan director who’s making his return with an spy film exploring the origins of the civil war which devastated his homeland...  

10/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Simon Jaquemet • Director of Electric Child

“I don't fear the end of the world, but the consequences for our society will surely be dire if power is distributed unequally”

Simon Jaquemet • Director of Electric Child

In his third feature, the Swiss director dives into the abyss of an AI-generated world  

09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Gianluca Jodice • Director of The Flood

“Showing everything without indulging in sentimentalism meant taking a big risk, and I was perfectly aware of that”

Gianluca Jodice • Director of The Flood

The Naples-born director zooms in on the final months of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI’s lives during the French Revolution  

09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Christoph Hochhäusler • Director of Death Will Come

“I find it easier to set fiction, like a gangster film, in a city that I don't know so well”

Christoph Hochhäusler • Director of Death Will Come

The German director follows a gangster through Brussels in his new movie, a mixture of crime story and existentialist drama  

08/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

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