Interviews

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

8189 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 14/05/2025. 658 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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"I grew up in a mixed-race family and didn't really know where I fitted into society"
Aleem Khan • Director of After LoveCineuropa met up with Aleem Khan to talk about his debut feature, After Love, awarded the Cannes label...  
27/10/2020 | Rome 2020
“The characters have to live with the unintended consequences of what their parents did”
Hong Khaou  • Director of MonsoonWe sat down with Cambodian-born British director Hong Khaou to unpick his second movie, Monsoon, in...  
08/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Competition
"We had a responsibility as Belgian filmmakers, we needed to make a film"
José-Luis Peñafuerte, Chergui Kharroubi • DirectorsInterview with Belgian filmmakers José-Luis Peñafuerte and Chergui Kharroubi, whose documentary Molenbeek,...  
06/12/2016
“Imagination helps us navigate reality”
Alireza Khatami  • DirectorVENICE 2017: Iranian filmmaker Alireza Khatami is presenting his debut feature Oblivion Verses in...  
01/09/2017
“I wanted to break away from this cliché that every time you have to reflect, you have to go to a confined, dark space”
Alireza Khatami • Director of The Things You KillThe Canadian-based Iranian director speaks to us about his cast, the emotional challenges he faced in...  
28/01/2025 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition
“When I am in Svaneti, I always come up with good ideas”
Mariam Khatchvani • Founder and artistic director, Svaneti International Film FestivalThe filmmaker talks to us about the future of the festival she created  
18/07/2022 | /Georgia
Interview
Boris Khlebnikov • DirectorKARLOVY VARY 2017: We caught up with Russian director Boris Khlebnikov, who is in the Official Competition...  
03/07/2017 | Karlovy Vary 2017 | Competition 
"Re-create a sense of social cohesion"
Martin Khoolhoven •  DirectorArthouse favourite Martin Koolhoven makes his first crowd-pleasing comedy because his country needs it  
24/11/2005
“There's some magic to Bologna, and it clicks here because it's absolutely international”
Ehsan Khoshbakht  • Co-director and curator, Il Cinema RitrovatoAhead of the repertory festival’s 2023 edition, one of its co-directors discusses the importance of...  
22/06/2023 | /Italy
“You cannot exploit people in this way, because it's not a voyeuristic Big Brother show”
Ilya Khrzhanovskiy  • Director of DAU. NatashaBERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, who co-directed the competition title DAU. Natasha with...  
29/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Competition
Interview - Venice Days 2014
Kim Ki-Duk  • DirectorVENICE 2014: The South Korean director Kim Ki-Duk, who won the Golden Lion in 2012 with Pietà, is back at...  
27/08/2014
The poetry of everyday life
Abbas Kiarostami • DirectorThe Iranian director, the subject of a wide-ranging retrospective at the Batik Film Festival of Perugia,...  
22/11/2002
"An Arabia straight from the imagination"
Paul Kieffer • Director17/06/2008
“We have to consider if postponing is really the best strategy in this situation”
Jakob Kijas  • Distributor, Eksystent DistributionCineuropa talked to Jakob Kijas, of German distributor Eksystent Distribution, about the main challenges...  
30/04/2020 | Germany
“There is no festival without conversation”
Janusz Kijowski •  Artistic Director, Koszalin Debut Film FestivalWe talked to Janusz Kijowski, the artistic director of “The Youth and Film” – The Festival of Film Debuts...  
31/08/2020 | /Poland
“There is this hope for changing something for the better as a woman, for other women”
Antonia Kilian  • Director of The Other Side of the RiverIn this documentary by the German filmmaker, the real fight for women continues away from the frontlines  
27/04/2021 | CPH:DOX 2021 | F:Act Award

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