Interviews

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

7492 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 23/04/2024. 580 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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Edith Sepp • CEO, Estonian Film Institute

“Platforms are like what US-based studios used to be”

Edith Sepp • CEO, Estonian Film Institute

The CEO of Estonia’s national film agency answered some questions about the body’s schemes and activities,...  

16/03/2022 | /Estonia

Edith Sepp • Head, Estonian Film Institute

"EFM is the kick-off of the cycle, and we can see the results in Cannes or in Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival"

Edith Sepp • Head, Estonian Film Institute

BERLINALE 2020: Edith Sepp, head of the Estonian Film Institute, met up with us to give us the lowdown on...  

02/03/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

Rodrigo Sepúlveda • Director of My Tender Matador

"From the very first moment, you realise that this love story will end up as a tragedy"

Rodrigo Sepúlveda • Director of My Tender Matador

VENICE 2020: Rodrigo Sepúlveda talks to us about My Tender Matador, which tells a gay love story set in...  

12/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Florin Şerban  • Director

“I am a teenager who, in many respects, refuses to grow up”

Florin Şerban • Director

When one shoots in wild locations, one must be prepared, says Romanian director Florin Şerban, whose Love...  

22/08/2018 | Sarajevo 2018 | Competition

Goran Stolevski, Alina Serban • Director of and actress in Housekeeping for Beginners

“In order to have a meaningful representation, we needed to allow our characters to act like arseholes”

Goran Stolevski, Alina Serban • Director of and actress in Housekeeping for Beginners

VENICE 2023: The Macedonian-Australian director reunites with one of his actresses to break down a movie...  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Hüseyin Tabak and Alina Serban • Director and actress of Gipsy Queen

"This is a film about motherhood in the first place, then about being Roma, and in the end about boxing"

Hüseyin Tabak and Alina Serban • Director and actress of Gipsy Queen

We have met up with Hüseyin Tabak and Alina Serban, director and actress of Gipsy Queen, a German-Austrian...  

27/11/2019 | Black Nights 2019 | Competition

Yulia Serdyukova • Producer, yutopia films

“The idea that documentary films can change the world is very dangerous”

Yulia Serdyukova • Producer, yutopia films

Interview with Yulia Serdyukova, producer for Ukrainian company yutopia films and selected for the 2020...  

20/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

Paloma Sermon-Daï • Director of It’s Raining in the House

"The film was written as it was made"

Paloma Sermon-Daï • Director of It’s Raining in the House

CANNES 2023: The young Belgian filmmaker talks about her sensitive portrait of a brother and a sister who...  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Paloma Sermon Daï • Director of Petit Samedi

"A story about filial and maternal love, a film about what it is to be a mother, what it is to be a son"

Paloma Sermon Daï • Director of Petit Samedi

BERLINALE 2020: We met with Belgian director Paloma Sermon Daï who is presenting her first feature film,...  

26/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Forum

Anna Serner • CEO, Swedish Film Institute

"If we don’t see change I’m not afraid to give bigger budgets to only women for one year"

Anna Serner • CEO, Swedish Film Institute

Swedish Film Institute CEO Anna Serner talks to Cinema Femme about the institution's objectives related to...  

06/02/2020 | Sweden

Xavier Seron  • Director

"It is in our flaws that I find beauty"

Xavier Seron • Director

Cineuropa caught up with Belgian director Xavier Seron to talk about his debut feature, Death By Death  

13/06/2016

Xavier Seron • Director of Life's a Bitch

“The film is about our fundamental need to be loved, and our loneliness, which are two sides of the same coin”

Xavier Seron • Director of Life's a Bitch

We met with the Belgian filmmaker, who continues his exploration of our contemporary neuroses through the...  

19/03/2024 | /Belgium/France

Albert Serra  • Director

“I’d have liked to have done something a bit crazier”

Albert Serra • Director

Screening out of competition at Seville, Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra presents his latest film, Last...  

07/11/2016

Albert Serra • Director

"One of the ideas was to show evil in a latent way"

Albert Serra • Director

Story of my Death by Spanish director Albert Serra has won Locarno's top prize, the Golden Leopard  

13/08/2013

Albert Serra  • Director of Pacifiction

“The character of De Roller reminded me most of Donald Trump!”

Albert Serra • Director of Pacifiction

CANNES 2022: We spoke with the Catalan director, flying high off the fine reception for his woozy,...  

28/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition

Koldo Serra • Director of 70 Big Ones

"I wanted to bring the 1970s thriller to Spain"

Koldo Serra • Director of 70 Big Ones

Koldo Serra releases 70 Big Ones in Spanish cinemas, a vibrant film about a bank robbery that was very...  

07/03/2019

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