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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“It will be a playful film with lots of humour, even though it is a serious topic; humour is essential for all of my projects”
Nora Lakos and Claudia Sümeghy  • Director and producer of I Accidentally Wrote a BookWe talked to the director and producer of the project that won the €20,000 Eurimages Co-Production...  
29/10/2021 | Cinekid 2021 | Cinekid for Professionals
“I always begin a project with an image that engraves itself on my mind”
Sara Summa • Director of Arthur & DianaFor her second feature, the French-Italian director has crafted a multilayered brother-and-sister story,...  
12/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Discovery
"Making an impact on mentalities that have gone to sleep"
Malgorzata Sumowska • DirectorSexuality, student prostitution, ageing, eroticism: the Polish director reveals the motivations behind her...  
24/01/2012
"Exile, a feeling of loss: these were things which I was able to understand"
Yoon Sung-A • Director of OverseasCinergie met with the director Yoon Sung-A to talk about her documentary Overseas, which has just screened...  
26/10/2019 | Namur 2019
“Migration isn't something to be afraid of; on the contrary, it develops a sense of empathy”
Hülya Sungu  • Programme director, International Migration Film FestivalWe chatted to Hülya Sungu, programme director of Turkey’s International Migration Film Festival, about the...  
30/06/2020 | /Turkey
“It’s a political statement to be crazy”
Juha Suonpää  • Director of Lynx ManWho said that one man’s love for the lynx can’t save the world? The director’s protagonist, Hannu, is...  
20/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023
"We spent the days researching with the police and the evenings bringing that reality into the script"
Sandhya Suri • Director of SantoshCANNES 2024: The British-Indian filmmaker discusses her fiction debut, a story of a woman who goes from...  
27/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard
“The movie was like a work in progress; nobody knew where the story was going”
Lorenz Suter  • DirectorCineuropa talked to Swiss director Lorenz Suter at Solothurn about his mysterious and aesthetically...  
02/02/2018 | Solothurn 2018
“The company of these young radicals made me remember how essential it is to stay curious”
Virpi Suutari • Director of Once Upon a Time in a ForestThe director tells us more about her film that proves that people still need to fight for the environment...  
26/11/2024 | IDFA 2024
“I like to open up the creative process to improvisation for as long as possible”
Jan Švankmajer • DirectorCineuropa talked to legendary Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer about misanthropy, censorship and his latest...  
29/01/2018 | IFFR 2018
"Falling, in love or not, to emerge stronger"
Yngvild Sve Flikke  • DirectorCineuropa met the Norwegian director Yngvild Sve Flikke, who has just screened her first feature film...  
03/03/2015
"I wanted to tell a deeply emotional story in a light way"
Yngvild Sve Flikke • Director of NinjababyNorwegian director Yngvild Sve Flikke talks to us about her project Ninjababy, the follow-up to Women in...  
05/02/2020 | Göteborg 2020 | Göteborg Industry
“Our relationship with the audience is like a great love affair”
Ása Baldursdóttir, Hrönn Sveinsdóttir • Distributors, Bíó ParadísThe two distributors talk us through bringing international and Scandi hits to their audience and their...  
22/08/2024 | Distributor of the Month
“There was a big response from the community and Bíó Paradís will be reopening this September”
Hrönn Sveinsdóttir  • Distributor, Bíó ParadísWe spoke to Hrönn Sveinsdóttir, managing director of Iceland’s only arthouse cinema Bíó Paradís and its...  
14/07/2020 | /Iceland
"Working differently: a serious game"
Eirik Svensson  • DirectorEirik Svensson, whose first feature film, Must Have Been Love has just come out, belongs to a brand new...  
05/04/2013
“Our work leads to a stronger film industry in Europe”
Mikael Svensson  • Head of the Oresund Film Commission, Southern SwedenWe chatted to Mikael Svensson, head of the Oresund Film Commission, Southern Sweden, to find out more...  
15/04/2015

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