Interviews

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

7095 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 14/08/2023. 616 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Inês Pedrosa e Melo • Director of Home, revised

“The idea of the archival image as a way to connect with someone through time and space was quite appealing to me”

Inês Pedrosa e Melo • Director of Home, revised

The Lisbon-born director’s documentary is a meditation on the use of archive footage and will have its European premiere at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s...  

03/07/2023 | Future Frames 2023

Kim Allamand • Director of Heart Fruit

“Romance leaves doubts when infatuation flags”

Kim Allamand • Director of Heart Fruit

After a successful run on the festival circuit, including a premiere at Locarno, the Swiss short will now screen at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames  

30/06/2023 | Future Frames 2023

Ivana Kostovoska • Researcher, imec-SMIT-VUB

“As growth in content investment is expected to slow in the coming years, market conditions are likely to become more challenging”

Ivana Kostovoska • Researcher, imec-SMIT-VUB

The researcher talked us through the findings of a recent study on the so-called “Netflix taxes”  

30/06/2023 | /Belgium

Elise Jalladeau • General director, Thessaloniki Film Festival

“Evia boasts an impressive gamut of locations, fit for a multitude of film settings”

Elise Jalladeau • General director, Thessaloniki Film Festival

We get the inside info from the Greek festival’s general director on the second edition of the Evia Film Project, an event focused on green cinema and...  

30/06/2023 | Thessaloniki 2023

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

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

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