Interviews

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

8185 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 13/05/2025. 665 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“Any less-than-perfect reality tends to be marginalised and hidden away”
Ruxandra Ghiţescu • Director of Otto the BarbarianRomanian director Ruxandra Ghiţescu tells us about her film Otto the Barbarian, centred on a 17-year-old...  
19/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Competition
“We just have to wait and try to be optimistic because the material is there”
Alessandro Giacobbe • Distributor, Academy TwoAlessandro Giacobbe, Managing Director of Academy Two, broke down for us the main challenges for...  
19/11/2020 | /Italy
“Without regulation on media windows, buying quality films in foreign markets doesn’t make sense”
Alessandro Giacobbe • Managing Director, Academy TwoThe independent cinema operator and distributor has written a letter to Italy's Minister of Culture to...  
16/06/2022 | /Italy
"I try to understand, as an explorer, what it means to be human"
Ole Giæver • DirectorBERLIN 2017: Cineuropa caught up with Norwegian director Ole Giæver, who is presenting his latest feature...  
12/02/2017
"To make your presence felt in the world, first of all you need to make it felt to yourself"
Ole Giæver  • DirectorCineuropa met up with Norwegian filmmaker Ole Giæver, the director of Out of Nature, which was presented...  
16/09/2014
“I’ve also had my Sámi awakening”
Ole Giæver • Director of Let the River FlowThe Norwegian director opens up about the fight surrounding the construction of the Alta Dam, and telling...  
16/03/2023 | /Norway/Finland
"A festival with a strong identity"
Francesco Giai Via  • Artistic director, Annecy Italian Film FestivalWe met up with Francesco Giai Via, the new artistic director of the Annecy Italian Film Festival  
25/09/2017
“Events like Bellaria are opportunities for panel discussions which provide spaces to reflect upon good and bad practices”
Francesco Giai Via • Head of Industry, Bellaria Film FestivalThe head of the festival’s industry sidebar spoke to us about the (In)Emergenza project selection process,...  
07/05/2025 | /Italy
“Environmental sustainability and gender equality should be seen as part of our new professional DNA”
Francesco Giai Via  • Head of Studies, Alpi Film LabWe chatted with Head of Studies Francesco Giai Via who’s overseeing this programme on Italian-French...  
08/04/2022 | Italy/France
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Paul Giamatti • ActorGolden Globe winner actor Paul Giamatti talks about his experience playing King John of England in...  
“We have seen the migrants’ strength and their beauty”
Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari  • DirectorsCineuropa sat down with Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari, directors of Spectres Are Haunting Europe,...  
28/11/2016
"I’m not interested in the events, but in their shadow"
Xavier Giannoli  • Co-director of Of Money and BloodThe director of Lost Illusions, along with Frederic Planchon, co-directed the series based on the book of...  
13/10/2023 | South Series 2023
"An elusive enigma"
Xavier Giannoli • DirectorXavier Giannoli decrypts The Apparition, an immersion into a canonical investigation starring Vincent...  
12/02/2018
"We all need a bit of illusion in our lives"
Xavier Giannoli  • DirectorVENICE 2015: The French filmmaker Xavier Giannoli deciphers Marguerite, unveiled in competition at the...  
04/09/2015
Superstar: "a disaster film, but with a glimmer of hope”
Xavier Giannoli • DirectorCineuropa met the French director at the 69th Venice Film Festival where he had come to screen Superstar...  
31/08/2012
“As a filmmaker, I hope that the audience can see the beauty of this civilisation, but also the cruelty”
Xavier Giannoli  • Director of Lost IllusionsVENICE 2021: With his adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s work, a long obsession is finally put to rest, with...  
07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

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