Interviews

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

9023 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 16/09/2026. 605 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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"My movies are an existential questioning that I try to subscribe to"
Fernand Melgar  • DirectorCineuropa met up with Swiss filmmaker Fernand Melgar, who returns to Locarno to enlighten again, through...  
15/08/2014
"Europe is turning into a huge prison"
Fernand Melgar • DirectorFernand Melgar presented his controversial documentary Special Flight, about illegal immigration in...  
29/11/2011
“We wanted the war to exist on a linguistic and emotional level, rather than simply through images of destruction”
Isabelle Stever, Anna Melikova • Director and screenwriter of I Rarely Wake Up DreamingThe director and screenwriter discuss their film about a Ukrainian couple simultaneously navigating one...  
11/08/2026 | Locarno 2026 | Competition
Kinology: "very unusual and ambitious projects"
Grégoire Melin • Seller02/02/2009
“Filmmaking is the art of the encounter”
Matheus Mello  • ProducerThe Brazilian Emerging Producer, now based in Spain, talks about producing documentary films and finding...  
17/03/2023 | Emerging Producers 2023
Shooting Star 2009 - Denmark
Cyron Melville20/01/2009
“Animation is not a genre, but a medium with which you can tell any kind of story”
Reza Memari • Director of The Last Whale SingerWe spoke to the German-Iranian filmmaker about the potential of animation and his upcoming multi-format...  
17/02/2023 | /Germany/Czech Republic/Canada
“We could imagine that when we watch a film, we are the ghosts who possess a body, the body of the one who witnesses, the body of the camera”
Rodrigo Díaz, Pascual Mena • Producers of ErraticsThe producers awarded with the Eurimages New Lab Outreach Award at this year’s IFFR talked to Cineuropa...  
04/03/2025 | IFFR 2025 | IFFR Pro
"There are some very dangerous ways of understanding masculinity"
Polo Menárguez • Director of The PlanWith his feature debut, The Plan, which is released today in Spanish cinemas, Polo Menárguez has brought...  
21/02/2020 | Spain
"I wanted to explore how much we are willing to do just to have someone and to relate to someone"
Urša Menart • Director of Everything That's Wrong with YouWe caught up with the Slovenian director to talk about her film, which stars Anuša Kodelja and Klara Kuk...  
25/08/2026 | Sarajevo 2026 | Competition
"This is the Slovenian version of Easy Rider, structured like a memory of recent times"
Dominik Mencej  • Director of RidersThe Slovenian filmmaker talks about how he looked back at the recent past of the Balkans while drawing...  
23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition
“I like to fully embrace my outsider status”
Antonio Méndez Esparza  • DirectorFollowing his award-winning debut Aquí y allá, Antonio Méndez Esparza is back with Life and Nothing More,...  
29/09/2017 | San Sebastián 2017 | Competition 
“When I find myself in a situation I didn’t expect, I try to embrace it.”
Antonio Méndez Esparza • Director of Courtroom 3HMadrid-born director Antonio Méndez Esparza, now settled in the USA, returns with a new bid for the Golden...  
25/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition
"We all make up stories in our head"
Antonio Méndez Esparza  • Director of Something Is About to HappenThe American-based Spanish filmmaker talks about his co-production between his home country and Romania,...  
26/10/2023 | Seminci 2023
"I was always curious what it's like to be a teenager with a mobile phone in your hand"
Sonia Méndez • Director of As NevesThe Galician filmmaker has used first-time actors and isolated landscapes to discuss digitalised youth,...  
13/03/2024 | Malaga 2024
"I trust the actors' instincts"
Brillante Mendoza • DirectorA quest for truth and trust in one's actors. The Filipino filmmaker behind Captive explains his vision.  
13/02/2012

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