Interviews

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

8174 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 09/05/2025. 666 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“I see my job as highlighting the dark side of the room"
Maya Zinshtein  • Director of ’Til Kingdom ComeCinema Femme talked to Israeli filmmaker and journalist Maya Zinshtein about what’s behind her documentary...  
06/02/2020 | IDFA 2020
“Europe must open up to Arab cinema”
Daniel Ziskind  • ProducerCineuropa met up with producer Daniel Ziskind at the Cairo Film Festival, giving us an opportunity to...  
17/01/2018
"I expect to see an Arab filmmaker selected at the upcoming editions of Berlin, Cannes and Venice"
Daniel Ziskind  • Producer, Film ClinicCineuropa spoke to Paris-based producer Daniel Ziskind, who has been signed up as the European...  
22/04/2015
"The revolutions are encouraging producers and directors to look at more hard-hitting material"
Daniel Ziskind  • Representative of ZADCineuropa met up with Daniel Ziskind, who has just produced the film El Ott by Ibrahim El Batout, which...  
14/11/2014
"A metaphor for modern-day man being trapped like tuna"
Francesco Zizola • DirectorVENICE 2018: Photojournalist Francesco Zizola is presenting his short film As If We Were Tuna in the...  
31/08/2018 | Venice 2018 | Giornate degli Autori
"A story that isn’t afraid of being a bit enigmatic"
Rebecca Zlotowski • DirectorFrench director Rebecca Zlotowski deciphers Planetarium, a film that plumbs the depths of and trouble with...  
16/11/2016
“Not a militant film, but a dialogue between two worlds”
Rebecca Zlotowski  • DirectorRebecca Zlotowski, the author of Belle épine, a guest at the “Rendez-vous” appointment with new French...  
04/04/2014
Cannes 2010
Rebecca Zlotowski • directorThe French director talks about her 63rd Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week competition entry Belle Epine,...  
“It’s time for women to re-embrace our sexy stereotypes, and play with them with power and pride”
Rebecca Zlotowski  • Director of An Easy GirlCANNES 2019: We caught up with Rebecca Zlotowski to discuss An Easy Girl, which plays with sexual...  
23/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight
“I felt that Rachel was the person I needed to be at a certain point and could not be”
Rebecca Zlotowski • Director of Other People’s ChildrenVENICE 2022: We chatted with the French director, who has crafted her new feature as a cinematic...  
10/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition
"An artist trapped in a political situation where everyone wants different things of him"
Sameh Zoabi  • DirectorVENICE 2018: Israeli-Palestinian filmmaker Sameh Zoabi breaks down his comedy Tel Aviv on Fire, which was...  
03/09/2018 | Venice 2018 | Orizzonti
“How must it feel to abort an almost complete human being?”
Anne Zohra Berrached  • DirectorBERLIN 2016: German writer-director Anne Zohra Berrached, whose 24 Weeks screened in the Berlinale...  
19/02/2016
“A voice of authority can manipulate us and be in control of all our acts”
Yorgos Zois  • DirectorVENICE 2015: Greek director Yorgos Zois explains how he played with conventions in his Orizzonti-selected...  
15/09/2015
"I always like it when somebody takes me by the hand into a journey to the unknown"
Yorgos Zois  • Director of ArcadiaBERLINALE 2024: The Greek director delves into his second film, a haunting story of love, loss, acceptance...  
04/03/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Encounters
"I still see people queuing to see arthouse films"
Virág Zomborácz  • DirectorCineuropa met up with Virág Zomborácz, the director of Afterlife, the winner of the Bergamo Film Meeting  
17/03/2015
"We wanted to do a full-on western film. A real western, like they used to shoot in the old days: gritty, dirty and savage"
Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis • Directors of Heads or Tails?We spoke to the second winners of this year’s CineMart Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, who are...  
10/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | IFFR Pro

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