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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Marco Righi • Director of Where the Wind Blows

“I was interested in the faith element of man’s earthly experience”

Marco Righi • Director of Where the Wind Blows

The Italian director spoke to us about his approach towards his second feature film, which is a religious and spiritual odyssey  

07/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Tomáš Klein • Director of A Sensitive Person

"My film is about finding love and hope in a very absurd and cruel world"

Tomáš Klein • Director of A Sensitive Person

The Czech director discusses his directorial debut by unpicking his visual and narrative approach, his characters' journey and the topics he wanted to talk...  

07/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Albert Hospodářský • Director of Brutal Heat

“Unless you’re making a documentary or a strictly fact-based film, it’s better to let the reality shift to something a bit more playful”

Albert Hospodářský • Director of Brutal Heat

The debuting Czech director behind the genre-blending coming-of-age film details his personal inspiration, environmental anxiety and the nuances of...  

07/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Proxima

Amelie Maria Nielson • Director of The Shift

“Every kind of queer film is important to the world”

Amelie Maria Nielson • Director of The Shift

The Danish director talks about their Teddy-nominated short, centring on a character living in a home for problem girls, as it screens as part of EFP’s...  

07/07/2023 | Future Frames 2023

Cyril Aris • Director of Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

"I wanted to explore how art can get people back on their feet again"

Cyril Aris • Director of Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

The Lebanese director gives us the insights on his documentary centred on a film crew in the middle of production paralysed by the catastrophic explosion in...  

07/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Giulia Regini • Director of Cut From the Same Cow

“I am especially drawn to the question: when do you really become an adult?”

Giulia Regini • Director of Cut From the Same Cow

With her Future Frames short, the Italian helmer has crafted an elegant tale of family turmoil replete with simmering tension and strong performances  

07/07/2023 | Future Frames 2023

Behrooz Karamizade • Director of Empty Nets

“I wanted to let young Iranian people have their say and show the world that there are other sides to Iran, too”

Behrooz Karamizade • Director of Empty Nets

The German-Iranian director breaks down the masculine world of fishing, the prospects for the young generation of Iranians and his relationship with the sea  

07/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Pascale Bourgaux • Director of Hawar, Our Banished Children

"In times of war, the female body is a battlefield"

Pascale Bourgaux • Director of Hawar, Our Banished Children

We met with the Belgian journalist and filmmaker to discuss her shock documentary, revolving around a female survivor who suffered twice at the hands of...  

07/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

Sophia Mocorrea • Director of The Kidnapping of the Bride

“I felt it was time we re-evaluated these traditions before blindly following them”

Sophia Mocorrea • Director of The Kidnapping of the Bride

The director of the winner of a Short Film Jury Award at this year’s Sundance, screening as part of EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary, homes in on the...  

06/07/2023 | Future Frames 2023

Ernst De Geer • Director of The Hypnosis

"We wanted to be personal, but not too personal, and unique, but not too crazy"

Ernst De Geer • Director of The Hypnosis

The Swedish director talks about what is behind his first feature, a satire on modern society and about the conventions dictating how we behave with each other  

06/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento • Director of Adieu sauvage

“Giving visibility to invisible people makes me deeply happy”

Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento • Director of Adieu sauvage

The young Colombia-born, Belgium-based filmmaker talks to us about his debut feature, which goes on a search for an indigenous Colombian people, and even...  

06/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

Mélanie Delloye • Director of Nightman

"I wanted to work with psychological terror"

Mélanie Delloye • Director of Nightman

The French filmmaker introduced us to her second feature film, which is a psychological thriller set against a backdrop of Gaelic legends  

06/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

Mathieu Volpe • Director of An Italian Youth

“What I find most striking is this generation who lives on one continent, but whose head is always turned towards that of their parents”

Mathieu Volpe • Director of An Italian Youth

The young filmmaker, born in Italy and living in Belgium, tells us about his first feature-length documentary, which follows a young Burkinese man’s...  

06/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

Joris Tobé • Director of Frantic Attempts

“It’s only when you write your script as a complete drama that humour can arise”

Joris Tobé • Director of Frantic Attempts

The Dutch director’s short is a satirical view of “self-help” as well as an examination of male insecurity and the need to grow up  

06/07/2023 | Future Frames 2023

Hannes Verhoustraete • Director of Broken View

“Cinema in itself is powerless; it becomes powerful only within an existing ideology”

Hannes Verhoustraete • Director of Broken View

The Belgian director’s film essay reflects on the role that images played in justifying his home country’s colonisation of the Congo  

06/07/2023 | /Belgium

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