Interviews
SXSW 2025 Interview: GG Hawkins Talks I REALLY LOVE MY HUSBAND, Not Settling, Individuals As Islands
GG Hawkins, podcaster-turned-director, discusses bringing people together to make a film about separating.
Rotterdam 2025 Interview: RAINS OVER BABEL Director Gala del Sol Talks Mythic Worldbuilding, Queer Programming, Personal Healing
Gala del Sol, a visionary Spanish-Colombian debut director, talks fresh world building and personal healing.
LAST BREATH Interview: Director Alex Parkinson Talks World Building Under the Sea
Based on a real-life incident in 2012, Last Breath details the desperate attempt to rescue a diver trapped hundreds of feet underwater in the North Sea. This is the first fiction feature for director Alex Parkinson, who began his career...
Berlinale 2025 Interview: THE LONGING Director Toshizo Fujiwara Talks Social Realism, Mentorship, and Learning From Each Other
Toshizo Fujiwara is leaning forward in his Zoom window as I speak, listening intently and smiling in recognition. We’re discussing the warmth that he demonstrates towards people in his filmmaking, and the more that he shares, the more the rhythms...
Rotterdam Video Interview: ME, MARYAM, THE CHILDREN AND 26 OTHERS Blurs Boundaries Between Fiction And Reality
What happens when the boundaries between fiction and reality blur, not only on screen, but also during filmmaking itself? In Fiction & Reality – Vice Versa, journalist and filmmaker Ronald Glasbergen sits down with Iranian director Farshad Hashemi, actress and...
GRAND THEFT HAMLET Interview: Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls Talk Their Innovative Doc, MUBI, Massively Multiplayer Promenade Performance
The directors of one of the year's most unusual elevator pitches talk documentary innovation, virtual theater, and streaming curation.
Rotterdam 2025 Interview: YASUKO, SONGS OF DAYS PAST Director Negishi Kichitaro Talks Taisho Entanglements, Roman Porno, Creating Chemistry
A legendary director of Roman Porno and period dramas discusses his IFFR-premiering return to the director's chair.
LOVE HURTS Interview: Director Jonathan Eusebio Talks Designing Action, Working With Actors, Balance Between Violence and Humor
A mild-mannered Milwaukee realtor finds himself in the middle of a drug war in Love Hurts, an action comedy starring Ke Huy Quan, Ariana deBose, and Daniel Wu. It's the debut feature by director Jonathan Eusebio, a longtime stunt choreographer...
Rotterdam 2025 Interview: Miwako Van Weyenberg Talks SOFT LEAVES, International Influences, Child Actors, and Zooming In
Belgian-Japanese writer-director Miwako Van Weyenberg discusses her debut as it premieres in the Big Screen Competition at IFFR.
EAT THE NIGHT Interview: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel Talk Online Gaming, Queer Love, Young Realities
The French hybrid filmmakers discuss communication across realities virtual and physical.
Long Time Actor, Stunt Performer and Fight Coordinator Jeff Wolfe Talks His Directorial Debut OUTBREAK, Working With Sammo Hung and That Scene In DRIVE ...
From battling alongside Jet Li in Once Upon a Time in China and America, facing off with Jean-Claude Van Damme in Knock Off, battling The Rock in The Scorpion King, acting alongside Quentin Tarantino in Alias, taking a memorable elevator...
ENDLESS SUMMER SYNDROME Interview: Kaveh Daneshmand, Gem Deger, and Sophie Colon Talk Creative Collaboration, Cinephilic Filmmaking, and National Morality
The team behind France's freshest incest drama discuss lockdown creativity, national morality, and embarking on a uniquely familial project without bumpers.
ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS VOL. 2 Interview: Kier-La Janisse Talks New Blu-ray Box Set
Any opportunity to talk to Kier-La Janisse makes me happy. The chance to help celebrate a new project of hers is a cause for celebration. I hereby nominate for Blu-ray box set of the year All the Haunts Be Ours...
THE HOLIDAY CLUB Interview: Alexandra Swarens Talks Seasonal Sapphic Storytelling, Respecting Romance, and Getting Her Hands Dirty
The queen of seasonal lesbian love discusses romantic cinema, screen chemistry, and hilarious, accidental euphemisms.
European Film Awards 2024: Maura Delpero on VERMIGLIO Reflecting on Family Legacies, Gender Roles, Mountain Life
Italian filmmaker Maura Delpero talks about the exploration of personal memory, regional authenticity, and shifting social norms.
European Film Awards 2024: Magnus von Horn Talks THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE, Social Failures, Moral Ambiguity, Crafting a Dark Fairytale
Swedish director Magnus von Horn discusses themes of systemic societal failure and moral ambiguity, as well as historical and contemporary contexts.
European Film Awards 2024: Saulė Bliuvaitė Talks TOXIC, Post-Soviet Realities, Authentic Adolescence
Saulė Bliuvaitė talks about how her experiences growing up in post-Soviet Lithuania shaped the film's portrayal of adolescence, industrial decay, and socio-economic struggles.
GET AWAY Interview: Steffen Haars, Maisie Ayres, Sebastian Croft on Their Horror Comedy
In the horror comedy Get Away, an Anglo-Irish family (Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Maisie Ayres and Sebastian Croft) go on vacation to Svälta, a place that sounds ideal for horror: a small Swedish island where in the 19th century a...
Sound And Vision: Jérôme Vandewattyne
In this Sound and Vision, an exclusive interview with film and music video director Jérôme Vandewattyne. Jérôme Vandewattyne and Severine Cayron are two members of the band Pornographie Exclusive, and co-directors, co-producers, writers of the album film One-way Ticket to...
Ji.hlava 2024 Interview: Tsai Ming-liang on Hand-Sculpted Cinema, Breaking the Industry Norms and New Films
The Taiwanese master of slow cinema discuses VR works, the intersection of theatre, performance art and cinema, and upcoming works.
