Interviews

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

8193 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 15/05/2025. 661 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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"Ambition is not solely about money and casting"
Cyril Mennegun • DirectorCyril Mennegun deciphers the surprising success of Louise Wimmer and talks about his second feature film,...  
02/04/2013
“The storyline’s authenticity was paramount”
Kenneth Mercken • Director of CoureurCineuropa sat down with Belgian director Kenneth Mercken to talk about fictionalising his real-life story...  
30/01/2019 | IFFR 2019 | Limelight
"This kind of impassioned involvement in politics took me back to my childhood years"
Christian Carmosino Mereu • Director of Land of Upright PeopleVENICE 2022: The Italian helmer chats about his documentary, which he shot in Burkina Faso from the 2014...  
04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori
Salvatore Mereu • DirectorTwo girls living in a downtrodden Cagliari neighborhood star in an exhilarating, bitter comedy  
06/09/2012
Mereu’s anti-hero Sonétaula
Salvatore Mereu • Director07/03/2008
“When you choose a book to adapt, you do it almost on an unconscious level”
Salvatore Mereu • Director of AssandiraVENICE 2020: We talked to Salvatore Mereu, the director of Assandira, based on the novel by Giulio Angioni  
10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition
"This farmer, whose way of life is so distant from our own, reminds us that we don't have the right relationship with nature"
Salvatore Mereu • Director of BentuVENICE 2022: The director follows the day-to-day life of an elderly farmer as he waits for the wind to...  
09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori
“In some ways, my film is like a nature documentary: you show how little people live, how the world affects them and how they affect the world”
Rasmus Merivoo • Director of KrattWe talked to the Estonian director about his film, which is really for the whole family, even though...  
10/08/2021 | Fantasia 2021
“It’s like the city is screaming and falling apart at the same time”
Noémie Merlant • Director of The BalconettesCANNES 2024: The French actress-writer-director breaks down her sophomore directorial feature, about three...  
22/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Midnight Screenings
"Shattering the stereotypical image of the butch female cop in a leather jacket"
Frédéric  Mermoud  • DirectorAfter several acclaimed shorts, Swiss-born, French-based director Frédéric Mermoud has made an impressive...  
14/10/2010
"I neither hate nor sympathise with the characters"
Mehmet Can Mertoglu • DirectorCANNES 2016: Young Turkish filmmaker Mehmet Can Mertoglu talks about his debut feature, Albüm, which was...  
13/05/2016
“My movies don’t just function on an intellectual level”
Lorenz Merz • Director of Soul of a BeastThe young Swiss director talks to us about his second feature, which is competing in the Locarno Film...  
06/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition
"I wanted the actors and their characters to have enough space to explore their own desires"
Valentin Merz • Director of De noche los gatos son pardosWith his debut feature, the Swiss filmmaker brings us into a mysterious world of desire, revolt and lightness  
15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition
“I’m rural and psychedelic”
Rocío Mesa • Director of Tobacco BarnsIn her first fiction feature, the filmmaker recreates her childhood and adolescence in southern Spain,...  
22/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | New Directors
“I wanted to show the vulnerability of the teenagers in such harsh conditions”
Simón Mesa Soto  • DirectorCANNES 2014: Cineuropa met up with Simón Mesa Soto, who directed the short film Leidi, winner of the...  
30/05/2014
"My film is built on the power of suggestion and memory"
Piero Messina  • DirectorVENICE 2015: The debut film of Italian director Piero Messina, The Wait, is in competition at the Venice...  
07/09/2015

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