Interviews

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

8471 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 08/10/2025. 651 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Anna Wowra • Director of Stuck Together

“The core of the film is the depiction of emotions and the transformation of years of accumulated frustration into evil”

Anna Wowra • Director of Stuck Together

The Polish director zooms in on small-town life as her newest short gets set to world-premiere as part of EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary  

29/06/2023 | Future Frames 2023

Marta Savina • Director of The Girl From Tomorrow

“It’s a story about female emancipation for audiences of all different geographical and cultural backgrounds”

Marta Savina • Director of The Girl From Tomorrow

We met with the Italian director who was taking part in the EFP’s “Europe! Voices of Women in Film” event at the Sydney Film Festival  

29/06/2023 | /Italy/France

Monika Mahútová • Director of Standing Still

“I had a situation in my mind: a woman, approximately 50 years old, goes into a frenzy and smashes furniture with an axe”

Monika Mahútová • Director of Standing Still

As she gears up for her short film to have its world premiere at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames, the Slovak director chats about the origins of...  

29/06/2023 | Future Frames 2023

Rinaldas Tomasevicius • Director of -15

“I had been living in that world myself for more than half of my life, so it is very familiar to me”

Rinaldas Tomasevicius • Director of -15

The Lithuanian director describes how living life on the streets affected his point of view as his short film prepares to screen as part of EFP’s Future Frames  

28/06/2023 | Future Frames 2023

Inés París • Director of Olvido

“Honesty is still a very dangerous attitude”

Inés París • Director of Olvido

The filmmaker gives us the low-down on her new movie, a thriller with a highly allegorical title that unfolds during the tragic floods which turned the city...  

27/06/2023 | Cinema Jove 2023

Estrella Alejandra Araiza Briseño | •  CEO & General Management Guadalajara Film Festival

“It is all about the audience and all about the strategy”

Estrella Alejandra Araiza Briseño | • CEO & General Management Guadalajara Film Festival

Estrella Alejandra Araiza Briseno explains how the Guadalajara Film Festival builds activities around the programmed filmed  

26/06/2023 | Euro Film Fest

Karel Och • Artistic director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

“Variety, in all its forms, is the essence of our selection process”

Karel Och • Artistic director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

In anticipation of the 57th edition of the KVIFF, the artistic director broke down his programming choices and discussed the rise of the new generation of...  

26/06/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023

Ehsan Khoshbakht  • Co-director and curator, Il Cinema Ritrovato

“There's some magic to Bologna, and it clicks here because it's absolutely international”

Ehsan Khoshbakht • Co-director and curator, Il Cinema Ritrovato

Ahead of the repertory festival’s 2023 edition, one of its co-directors discusses the importance of knowing about prints and the role the gathering plays in...  

22/06/2023 | /Italy

Anne Heffernan and Seán Herlihy  • Producers of This Is a Quiet Love

"The film weaves a tapestry of deaf experience over a period of 70 years"

Anne Heffernan and Seán Herlihy • Producers of This Is a Quiet Love

We met with the Irish duo who won the Global Issues Pitch at the 34th edition of the international documentary market known as Sunny Side of the Doc  

21/06/2023 | Sunny Side of the Doc 2023

Hervé Rony  • Director general, Scam

"It is difficult to live off making single-topic documentaries: it is kind of an obstacle course"

Hervé Rony • Director general, Scam

The director general of the Scam discusses the current situation in the documentary world regarding the protection of authors  

20/06/2023 | Sunny Side of the Doc 2023

Birgit Möller  • Director of Franky Five Star

“I’m not sure if the coming-of-age process is ever completed”

Birgit Möller • Director of Franky Five Star

The filmmaker has been at the German Film Fest Madrid to screen her second feature, a comedy-drama about adolescence in which the mind of the protagonist...  

20/06/2023 | /Finland/Germany

Vlad Petri  • Director of Between Revolutions

“I consider that the most important revolutions of the second half of the 20th century happened in Iran and Romania”

Vlad Petri • Director of Between Revolutions

The Romanian filmmaker reveals the cultural inspiration and the factual research underpinning his fictionalised, poetic documentary  

20/06/2023 | Transilvania 2023

Aleksandra Derewienko  • Head of Sales and acquisitions, CAT&Docs

"We look for documentaries which touch hearts as well as minds"

Aleksandra Derewienko • Head of Sales and acquisitions, CAT&Docs

The French sales agent’s Polish head of sales and acquisitions gives her viewpoint on the state of the market for documentaries  

19/06/2023 | Sunny Side of the Doc 2023

Mathieu Béjot  • Director of Strategy and Development, Sunny Side of the Doc

"One major trend in the documentary format is changing people’s outlooks"

Mathieu Béjot • Director of Strategy and Development, Sunny Side of the Doc

The event’s strategy and development director chatted to us about the 34th edition of the gathering, decrypting trends in the market and in documentary funding  

16/06/2023 | Sunny Side of the Doc 2023

Hugo Ruiz  • Director of One Night with Adela

“My film is extremely unrestrained”

Hugo Ruiz • Director of One Night with Adela

The Spanish filmmaker unpicks his feature debut, an indie revenge flick that has just earned him the Best New Narrative Director Award at Tribeca and which...  

16/06/2023 | Tribeca 2023

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