Interviews

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

7478 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/03/2024. 581 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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Adrián Silvestre • Director of My Emptiness and I

“People today are treated like commodities on the market”

Adrián Silvestre • Director of My Emptiness and I

Following his second feature, Sediments, the Spanish filmmaker continues to explore the conflicts of trans...  

27/01/2022 | IFFR 2022 | Big Screen Competition

Adrián Silvestre  • Director of Sediments

“There are so many clichés in films on transsexual topics”

Adrián Silvestre • Director of Sediments

The Spanish filmmaker breaks down various aspects of his second feature, starring six trans women on the...  

08/06/2021 | Málaga 2021

Dāvis Sīmanis • Director of Maria’s Silence

“We have to remember the catastrophes in history so that we don’t make the same mistakes again”

Dāvis Sīmanis • Director of Maria’s Silence

BERLINALE 2024: The Latvian director discusses his exploration of Soviet Russia and the fate of its Baltic...  

20/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Forum

Dāvis Sīmanis • Director of The Year Before the War

“From the beginning, I wanted to focus on an eclectic visual style”

Dāvis Sīmanis • Director of The Year Before the War

We talked to the Latvian director, who presented his third feature film at the International Film Festival...  

10/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Big Screen Competition

Emil Simeonov • Distributor, Pro Films

“There has been almost no support for the culture industry in Bulgaria”

Emil Simeonov • Distributor, Pro Films

Emil Simeonov, of Bulgarian distribution company Pro Films, explains to us the situation of the market in...  

07/07/2020 | /Bulgaria

León Siminiani • Director

“You have to be willing to let the film find its way”

León Siminiani • Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2018: Spanish director León Siminiani has presented his new film, Notes For a Heist Film, a...  

01/10/2018 | San Sebastián 2018 | New Directors

Peeter Simm • Director of On the Water

“Children helped and complemented each other with surprising professionalism”

Peeter Simm • Director of On the Water

We spoke to veteran Estonian filmmaker Peeter Simm, who presented his new coming-of-age dramedy On the...  

30/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition

Carla Simón • Director

“I learn a lot from the way that children look at film”

Carla Simón • Director

BERLIN 2017: Summer 1993 is the title of Catalan filmmaker Carla Simón’s much-anticipated first...  

16/02/2017

Carla Simón • Director of Alcarràs

Interview

Carla Simón • Director of Alcarràs

10/12/2022 | European Film Awards 2022

Carla Simón • Director of Alcarràs

“In this film, it’s the men who cry”

Carla Simón • Director of Alcarràs

BERLINALE 2022: The kids are alright in the film by the Spanish filmmaker, but the adults are a whole...  

16/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Competition

Carla Simón  • Director of Alcarràs

"I need to believe that my characters and my themes really matter to me"

Carla Simón • Director of Alcarràs

We chatted to Catalan director Carla Simón to find out more about her Eurimages Award-winning upcoming and...  

14/03/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | EFM

‘My dear friend Mimi’

Claire Simon

In French director Claire Simon's documentary: "Mimi talks to me about her life, and I put her words into...  

07/02/2003

Claire Simon  • Director

“It’s normal that you think your parents are a failure”

Claire Simon • Director

BERLIN 2018: Claire Simon discusses her hybrid doc Young Solitude, in which ten teenage students help her...  

22/02/2018 | Berlinale 2018 | Forum

Claire Simon • Director of I Want to Talk About Duras

“For women, who have been oppressed for centuries, it’s very difficult to speak out about their oppression”

Claire Simon • Director of I Want to Talk About Duras

Cineuropa talks with the French director about the nature of love, society’s obssesion with fame, and the...  

22/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Jean-Christophe Simon • Sales agent, Films Boutique

"All the films are probably not for everybody"

Jean-Christophe Simon • Sales agent, Films Boutique

BERLIN 2019: We chatted with Jean-Christophe Simon, sales agent at German-French company Films Boutique,...  

22/02/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | EFM

Shooting Stars 2004 - Germany

Maria Simon - actress

German actress at the Shooting Star presentation in Berlin in 2004  

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