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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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

Jérémie Périn • Director of Mars Express

"I wanted people to be in that world, as if they’d been teleported there"

Jérémie Périn • Director of Mars Express

The French director spoke to us about his first feature film, set against a backdrop of Martian colonisation and is competing in Annecy after its initial...  

15/06/2023 | Annecy 2023

Fridtjof Ryder • Director of Inland

"The edit stays as open as it can, and the score informs back on the edit, as does the sound design. You remain constantly open"

Fridtjof Ryder • Director of Inland

The young British director discusses his dreamlike, Lynchian debut feature, set in Gloucestershire and featuring Mark Rylance as an almost magical father figure  

15/06/2023 | /UK

Burnin’ Percebes • Directors of Golem

"Real life is much crazier than fiction"

Burnin’ Percebes • Directors of Golem

The fourth film from the unpredictable Spanish duo Nando Martínez and Juan González hits Spanish cinemas after making an impact at festivals such as Malaga...  

15/06/2023 | /Spain

Raluca Bugnar • Coordinator, EducaTIFF

“We are always treading on quicksand”

Raluca Bugnar • Coordinator, EducaTIFF

The Transilvania IFF caters to a host of niche audiences, without forgetting about the youngest viewers, so the EducaTIFF coordinator broke down a few of...  

15/06/2023 | Transilvania 2023

Estephania Bonnett • Creative producer and director, Playlab Films

“Apichatpong Weerasethakul beckons us to experience a transformative way of looking at film, life and the world”

Estephania Bonnett • Creative producer and director, Playlab Films

The producer and director of the Creators Lab invites creators to come and take part in this year’s edition, which will be led by the acclaimed Thai...  

13/06/2023 | /Europe/Latin America

Áron Gauder • Director of Four Souls of Coyote

"We should live environmentally responsible lives and respect Mother Nature"

Áron Gauder • Director of Four Souls of Coyote

The Hungarian filmmaker explains why he has placed American Indian cosmogony centre stage in his new film, which is competing in Annecy where the director...  

12/06/2023 | Annecy 2023

Claudia Droc • Head of International Relations Transilvania International Film Festival

“It is a good feeling to try to get on board people who are like-minded and who want to develop a long-term relationship”

Claudia Droc • Head of International Relations Transilvania International Film Festival

Claudia Droc talks about the particularities of the Transilvania International Film Festival and her role as Head of International Relations.  

09/06/2023 | Euro Film Fest

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