Interviews

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

7477 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/03/2024. 581 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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Cédric Kahn  • Director

"The film is all about the rebuilding of social bonds"

Cédric Kahn • Director

BERLIN 2018: French filmmaker Cédric Kahn talks to us about his new film The Prayer, presented in...  

18/02/2018 | Berlinale 2018 | Competition

“You mustn’t accept misfortune as fate”

Cédric Kahn • Director

Excessive debt, family, love, survival: the French director explains the reasons that drove him to make A...  

02/12/2011

Cédric Kahn • Director of Making Of

“Comedy is often the best way to say really serious things, right?”

Cédric Kahn • Director of Making Of

VENICE 2023: The hardships of an idealistic film director and his ever-struggling crew are at the centre...  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Out of Competition

Cédric Kahn  • Director of The Goldman Case

"The viewer needed to be placed in the position of a jury member"

Cédric Kahn • Director of The Goldman Case

CANNES 2023: The French director discusses his fascinating courtroom drama about Pierre Goldman  

19/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Viestur Kairish  • Director of The Sign Painter

"How can you survive as a human and not sell your soul"

Viestur Kairish • Director of The Sign Painter

We met up with Latvian director Viestur Kairish to discuss his latest film The Sign Painter, which...  

01/12/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition

Elena Kairytė • Director of Roberta

“Roberta was looking for herself and it resonated with me. I was also looking for something”

Elena Kairytė • Director of Roberta

The Lithuanian director focuses on the girl at a crossroads who never lost hope  

28/04/2023 | Hot Docs 2023

Tinatin Kajrishvili

Producer on the Move 2014 – Georgia

Tinatin Kajrishvili

Cineuropa met up with Georgia’s Producer on the Move, Tinatin Kajrishvili, of production outfit Gemini, to...  

08/05/2014

Tinatin Kajrishvili • Director

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Tinatin Kajrishvili • Director

We met up with Georgian director Tinatin Kajrishvili to discuss her latest film, Horizon  

01/03/2018 | Berlinale 2018 | Panorama

Tinatin Kajrishvili  • Director

"I wanted to make my debut with a powerful story, which at the same time would feel like my own"

Tinatin Kajrishvili • Director

Cineuropa spoke to Georgian filmmaker Tinatin Kajrishvili, who screened her feature debut, Brides, at the...  

23/10/2014

Tinatin Kajrishvili • Director of Citizen Saint

“People act selfish and fearful, and this can be applied to both society and individuals”

Tinatin Kajrishvili • Director of Citizen Saint

The Georgian director dives right into our beliefs and hopes in her latest, touching film set in a mining...  

12/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Markku Hakala, Mari Käki  • Directors of Giant's Kettle

"Unfortunately, the dystopian world we built is strikingly similar to the one we live in"

Markku Hakala, Mari Käki • Directors of Giant's Kettle

The Finnish filmmaking duo discusses their film depicting an inhuman black-and-white bureaucratic...  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

“I wanted to understand how confusion and alienation were born”

Kamen Kalev • Director

Besides the documentary aspect of a main character played by a non-professional actor and his real, tragic...  

10/09/2009

Sahim Omar Kalifa • Director

“Zagros and his wife are victims of the burden of tradition”

Sahim Omar Kalifa • Director

Belgian-based Kurdish director Sahim Omar Kalifa talks to us about his feature debut, Zagros, which was...  

20/10/2017 | Ghent 2017

Sahim Omar Kalifa • Director of Baghdad Messi

"This story is a metaphor for the way the Iraqi dream has been annihilated"

Sahim Omar Kalifa • Director of Baghdad Messi

We met with the Belgian-Kurdish director who chose to reinvent his hit, short film and turn it into a...  

03/02/2023 | /Belgium/Netherlands/Iraq

Jan Kallista  • Producer

“People are being overfed with grand spectacles”

Jan Kallista • Producer

Jan Kallista, of Czech outfit Film Kolektiv, reveals to Cineuropa the plans for his latest project,...  

21/06/2017

Etienne Kallos  • Director of The Harvesters

"I wanted to explore the experience of living in fracture, of being displaced"

Etienne Kallos • Director of The Harvesters

CANNES 2018: Etienne Kallos talks about The Harvesters, a coming-of-age story about two stepbrothers set...  

14/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Un Certain Regard

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