Interviews

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

8165 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 07/05/2025. 664 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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"Talking to children about important subjects and difficult issues is helpful"
Johanne Helgeland • Director of The CrossingCineuropa met with Norwegian director Johanne Langeland whose first feature film The Crossing is full of...  
13/02/2020 | Norway
“There’s a real buzz around Norwegian films these days”
Stine Helgeland • Norwegian Film Institute25/01/2011
"I liked the idea that this 'faceless mass' we keep referring to is now standing in front of the camera, singing"
Susanna Helke • Director of Ruthless Times – Songs of CareThe Finnish director encourages her protagonists to talk about their problems, and sometimes even sing...  
08/02/2022 | DocPoint 2022
“My intention wasn't to shock, it was to get closer to reality”
Sten Hellevig  • DirectorCineuropa met the Norwegian director Sten Hellevig to talk about his first feature film Dryads – Girls...  
06/08/2015
“A horror movie is a great tool to confront the characters with their own lives”
Carolina Hellsgård • Director of Ever AfterGerman Films interviewed Carolina Hellsgård, whose latest film, the apocalyptic zombie horror and female...  
27/12/2018
"I am interested in complex relationships between people"
Monica Hellström  • Producer, Final Cut for RealDenmark’s Monica Hellström has been selected for EFP’s 2020 Producers on the Move, and we talked about her...  
14/05/2020 | Producers on the Move 2020
"As my films have no dialogue, I work with actors from all over the world"
Veit Helmer • Director of GondolaWe spoke to the man behind such silent films as Tuvalu, Absurdistan and The Bra about how he got involved...  
24/06/2024 | /Germany/Georgia
“Each of the women have their own strange obsessions and their own, individual reasons for trying the bra on”
Veit Helmer • Director of The BraWe sat down with director Veit Helmer at the Bari Bif&st to talk about his film, The Bra, set in an...  
30/04/2019 | Bif&st 2019
“We have to start almost from scratch to inspire people to come and watch films – and I am ready to do so”
Matthias Helwig • Director, Fünf Seen FilmfestivalThe head honcho of the Fünf Seen Filmfestival, perched on the outskirts of Munich, tells us more about its...  
24/08/2022 | /Germany
2009 Producer on the Move - Sweden
Erik Hemmendorff29/04/2009
“What is most important is not the story”
Erik  Hemmendorff • ProducerWith their company Plattform, Erik Hemmendorff and Ruben Östlund are bringing a breath of fresh air into...  
30/10/2008
The whole wide world in the jungle of the provinces
Susann Maria Hempel  • DirectorGerman Films met up with successful German filmmaker Susann Maria Hempel, director of several...  
17/09/2015
“A short film can be so much freer in its choice of tools”
Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck  • Head, Berlinale ShortsThe head of Berlinale Shorts guides us through the 2021 programme and ponders the changes to the...  
02/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Berlinale Shorts
“I don’t have to create much of a buzz because the films themselves already do it and the audience trusts us”
Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck • Head of Berlinale ShortsBERLINALE 2020: As Berlinale Shorts gets into full swing, Cineuropa talks to Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck...  
25/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Shorts
A man of stature
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck • DirectorHe is a debutant who has proven himself a professional in the best sense of the word with his first...  
29/10/2006
“I tried to find the politics from within the characters”
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  • Director of Never Look AwayVENICE 2018: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck follows up his 2010 adventure into American filmmaking with...  
10/09/2018 | Venice 2018 | Competition

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