Interviews

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

8235 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 25/05/2025. 663 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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"Cut & Print"!
Aki Kaurismäki • DirectorCinema the Finnish Way: no money, a few shadows and just one take  
22/05/2002
Interview - Lecce European Film Festival 2013
Aki Kaurismäki • Protagonist of European Cinema in LecceCineuropa met Aki Kaurismäki at the fourteenth edition of the European film festival in Lecce (8-13 April...  
“There is coronavirus, but there is also Corona Bar”
Mika Kaurismäki • Director of Gracious NightFinnish director Mika Kaurismäki assures us that only the finest wines were imbibed during the making of...  
30/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition
“I like tragicomedies where something that you look at closely may seem very sad, and when you look from farther away, it can be very funny”
Mika Kaurismäki • Director of The Grump: In Search of an EscortThe Finnish director told us how he proceeded when adapting the story of a grumpy old man with a passion...  
24/11/2022 | /Finland
“Nothing is ever simple and straightforward”
Alanté Kavaïté  • DirectorLithuanian director living in Paris Alanté Kavaïté decodes her second feature, The Summer of Sangaile,...  
16/01/2015
Fissures
Alanté Kavaïté • Director13/06/2007
“This was an extremely ambitious film on our budget, but I think we pulled it off”
Ivan Kavanagh  • Director of Never Grow OldWe met up with Ireland's Ivan Kavanagh, the writer-director of the western Never Grow Old, set to be...  
15/03/2019
“My goal was to tell a love story”
Marija Kavtaradze  • Director of SlowThe Lithuanian filmmaker lets the bodies do the talking in her touching romance involving a contemporary...  
20/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition
"I send my love to those people who see themselves or their loved ones in our characters"
Marija Kavtaradzė • Director of Summer SurvivorsWe chatted to Lithuanian director-scriptwriter Marija Kavtaradzė about her feature debut, Summer...  
19/09/2018 | Toronto 2018 | Discovery 
“It was a long process of writing, rewriting, script-doctoring and ‘killing my darlings’ to make the story airtight”
Maciej Kawalski  • Director of Dangerous MenThe director’s feature debut, an adventure-comedy set in 1914, featuring major literary and political...  
25/10/2022 | Warsaw 2022
“All generations of artists comment on their life in Germany”
Cem Kaya • Director of Love, Deutschmarks and DeathBERLINALE 2022: The Panorama-screened documentary shows how closely connected the history of Turkish music...  
17/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Panorama
"I'm trying to break down the walls somehow"
Yaelle Kayam  • DirectorIsraeli director and screenwriter Yaelle Kayam has made a tale about spatial and cultural borders in her...  
29/10/2015
“We wanted to create a bridge between the East and the West to check if the grass was greener on the other side”
Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova  • Directors of Cat in the WallWe chatted to Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova, who are showing their first fiction feature, Cat in the...  
21/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition
“This is not a normal film”
Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova  • Directors of Women Do CryCANNES 2021: The women in this Un Certain Regard entry have a lot on their minds and have to learn to stop...  
06/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard
Shooting Star 2006 - Bulgaria
Vesela Kazakova • Actress31/01/2006
“Producing is a skill that will always be applicable and that’s where my ambition lies”
Vesela Kazakova  • Producer, Activist38Part of the EFP’s Producers on the Move, UK-based Bulgarian producer Vesela Kazakova talks about the...  
18/05/2020 | Producers on the Move 2020

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