Interviews

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

8177 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 12/05/2025. 666 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Producer on the Move 2014 – Georgia
Tinatin KajrishviliCineuropa met up with Georgia’s Producer on the Move, Tinatin Kajrishvili, of production outfit Gemini, to...  
08/05/2014
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Tinatin Kajrishvili • DirectorWe met up with Georgian director Tinatin Kajrishvili to discuss her latest film, Horizon  
01/03/2018 | Berlinale 2018 | Panorama 
"I wanted to make my debut with a powerful story, which at the same time would feel like my own"
Tinatin Kajrishvili  • DirectorCineuropa spoke to Georgian filmmaker Tinatin Kajrishvili, who screened her feature debut, Brides, at the...  
23/10/2014
“People act selfish and fearful, and this can be applied to both society and individuals”
Tinatin Kajrishvili • Director of Citizen SaintThe 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
"Unfortunately, the dystopian world we built is strikingly similar to the one we live in"
Markku Hakala, Mari Käki  • Directors of Giant's KettleThe Finnish filmmaking duo discusses their film depicting an inhuman black-and-white bureaucratic...  
23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition
“Making films doesn't feel like work for me”
Michael Kalb  • Producer, Michael Kalb FilmproduktionThe German producer is dedicated to documentary filmmaking because real life writes the best and most...  
07/03/2025 | Emerging Producers 2025
“I wanted to understand how confusion and alienation were born”
Kamen   Kalev  • DirectorBesides the documentary aspect of a main character played by a non-professional actor and his real, tragic...  
10/09/2009
“Zagros and his wife are victims of the burden of tradition”
Sahim Omar Kalifa • DirectorBelgian-based Kurdish director Sahim Omar Kalifa talks to us about his feature debut, Zagros, which was...  
20/10/2017 | Ghent 2017
"This story is a metaphor for the way the Iraqi dream has been annihilated"
Sahim Omar Kalifa • Director of Baghdad MessiWe 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
“Producing films with profound themes that also have the potential to appeal to a wider audience is quite risky”
Kalin Kalinov • Producer, InvictusThe prominent Bulgarian producer elaborates on the concept behind his project selection policy and on the...  
14/05/2024 | Producers on the Move 2024
“People are being overfed with grand spectacles”
Jan Kallista  • ProducerJan Kallista, of Czech outfit Film Kolektiv, reveals to Cineuropa the plans for his latest project,...  
21/06/2017
"I wanted to explore the experience of living in fracture, of being displaced"
Etienne Kallos  • Director of The HarvestersCANNES 2018: Etienne Kallos talks about The Harvesters, a coming-of-age story about two stepbrothers set...  
14/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Un Certain Regard 
Laure Kaltenbach  • Managing director of the Forum d’AvignonCineuropa sat down with organiser Laure Kaltenbach to talk about the upcoming first Forum d’Avignon 100% data  
18/09/2014
"I read a headline in the newspaper about this woman and made the film to understand her, without having answers"
Iris Kaltenbäck  • Director of The RaptureCANNES 2023: The French filmmaker discusses the topics, the making and the cast of her first feature,...  
22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics' Week
“The freedom we have here, and the ability to put this programme together, is something that we cherish with pride, but also with great responsibility”
Vanja Kaludjercic • Director, International Film Festival RotterdamIFFR’s head discusses the upcoming edition and the festival’s vision, blending the finest of arthouse,...  
30/01/2025 | IFFR 2025
“Variety is essential to our festival's ethos, fostering a cross-pollination of audiences and art forms”
Vanja Kaludjercic • Director, International Film Festival RotterdamCineuropa sat down with IFFR’s head to discuss the 2024 edition, the festival’s vision, blending pop and...  
25/01/2024 | IFFR 2024

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