Interviews

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

7115 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 22/08/2023. 625 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Marjan van der Haar • Managing Director International Film Festival Rotterdam

“If you really focus on how to bring the programme and make it balanced, you can really focus on younger audiences as well”

Marjan van der Haar • Managing Director International Film Festival Rotterdam

Marjan van der Haar describes the atmosphere and particularities of the International Film Festival in Rotterdam  

11/07/2023 | Euro Film Fest

Jim Kolmar • Film Programmer

“The key work in the peak of busy season is watching films, reviewing them, taking notes and collaborating with your fellow programmers”

Jim Kolmar • Film Programmer

Jim Kolmar tells us about his role as a film programmer working on many different festivals  

11/07/2023 | Euro Film Fest

Ilija Tatić • Festival Manager European Film Festival Palić

“We care to make the festival a friendly and hospitable place that everybody will remember”

Ilija Tatić • Festival Manager European Film Festival Palić

Ilija Tatić talks to us about the atmosphere of the festival and the events taking place outdoor such as concerts and screenings  

11/07/2023 | Euro Film Fest

Luka Beradze • Director of Smiling Georgia

"I would like politicians to understand what these false promises do to the common people and change their attitudes"

Luka Beradze • Director of Smiling Georgia

The Georgian director breaks down his debut feature, which paints a delicate portrait of a part of his home country that is very beautiful but profoundly lonely  

11/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Special Screenings

Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar • Directors of She Came at Night

“Our goal was to create an ambivalent character: sometimes you want to kill her, sometimes you want to hug her”

Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar • Directors of She Came at Night

The directorial duo delight in proving that your own mother is your biggest fear  

11/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Special Screenings

Mariam Chachia, Nik Voigt • Directors of Magic Mountain

“In Georgia, we believe that if we don't talk about the unpleasant past, it will disappear”

Mariam Chachia, Nik Voigt • Directors of Magic Mountain

The directorial duo reveals the personal motifs behind their captivating documentary, as well as some of the parallel plots lurking under its surface  

11/07/2023 | Golden Apricot 2023

Robert Hloz • Director of Restore Point

“We are bringing sci-fi to our region – that’s where we took the biggest risk”

Robert Hloz • Director of Restore Point

In his debut feature, the Czech director looks to the year 2041, when, if you die an unnatural death, you can be brought back to life – as long as you’ve...  

11/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Special Screenings

Sahraa Karimi and Wanda Adamík Hrycová • Director and producer of Flight from Kabul

"We're going to make this film for the women of Afghanistan and for a free Afghanistan"

Sahraa Karimi and Wanda Adamík Hrycová • Director and producer of Flight from Kabul

The director and the producer discuss their project, which follows an Afghan filmmaker whose wedding plans are destroyed when the Taliban seize Kabul  

10/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

Kyros Papavassiliou • Director of Embryo Larva Butterfly

"What does choice mean if you know what is going to happen in your life?"

Kyros Papavassiliou • Director of Embryo Larva Butterfly

The Cypriot director discusses his new film, set in a place where time doesn’t flow, where the days appear randomly in the past, the present, and the future  

10/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Proxima

Alexandru Solomon • Director of Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife

"I hope that instead of seeking salvation in Heaven, we begin to correct issues here on Earth"

Alexandru Solomon • Director of Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife

The Romanian filmmaker talks about his second documentary, which portrays Romania's obsession with Arsenie Boca, a priest, theologian, and mystic persecuted...  

10/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Proxima

Emilie Brisavoine • Director of Keeping Mum

"Even if this is an intimate investigation of the relationship with my mother, our sufferings are universal"

Emilie Brisavoine • Director of Keeping Mum

The French director unpicks her second documentary, a captivating and poignant portrait of her mother and of the relationship between them  

10/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Proxima

Michèle Jacob • Director of The Lost Children

“Everyone has a monster inside them”

Michèle Jacob • Director of The Lost Children

We talked to the Belgian director about her first feature and merciless trip into the subconscious  

10/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Proxima

Thomas Imbach • Director of Say God Bye

“I wanted to show that Godard is one of us”

Thomas Imbach • Director of Say God Bye

The Swiss filmmaker talks about his latest documentary, a pilgrimage in search of Jean-Luc Godard  

10/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Proxima

Olga Chajdas, Lena Góra • Director and actress of Imago

"I wanted the audience to leave the screening with two words resonating: 'freedom' and 'choice'"

Olga Chajdas, Lena Góra • Director and actress of Imago

The director and the actress discuss their film, a punk odyssey through the communist Poland in the 80s, which they both co-wrote  

10/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Proxima

Philippe Van Leeuw • Director of The Wall

"I wanted to make a modern western"

Philippe Van Leeuw • Director of The Wall

The Belgian filmmaker spoke to us about his new movie, which paints an uncompromising portrait of a young female police officer on the border between Mexico...  

07/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

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