Interviews

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

8257 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 13/06/2025. 669 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“For animation producers such as ourselves, scouting for new talent is essential”
Cristian Jezdic • CEO, beQ Entertainment, and Vice-President, Cartoon ItaliaThe producer spoke to us, at this year’s Cartoon Springboard, about young talent in animation and the...  
31/10/2022 | Cartoon 2022 | Cartoon Springboard
"When the external world is changing, the individual can be very vulnerable"
Xiaoxuan Jiang • Director of To Kill A Mongolian HorseVENICE 2024: The feature debut by the Mongolian-born director revolves around a herdsman who looks after...  
06/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori
"It’s also our responsibility to talk about the past in the present"
Bénédicte Lienard and Mary Jimenez  • Directors of FugaThe directorial duo chatted to us about their new movie which sees them pursuing their journey in search...  
03/10/2024 | Namur 2024
Interview with Carmen Jimenez, head of press, and Alina Sigaro, head of marketing
Carmen Jimenez & Alina Sigaro - Alta Classics • DistributorAlta Films distributes films from different countries, mainly European ones, which are generally quality...  
03/01/2006
Video - San Sebastián Film Festival 2009
Interview with Miguel Ángel Jiménez, director of OriOri by Miguel Ángel Jiménez, in competition at the San Sebastián Festival, Zabaltegui section  
Chaika: a Kazakhstan love story
Miguel Angel Jiménez • DirectorSpanish director Miguel Angel Jiménez presented his second feature Chaika at the 11th Brussels Film Festival  
23/06/2013
“Fiction can be a salve, and it can bring us back to ourselves”
Miguel Ángel Jiménez  • Director of Window to the SeaSpanish filmmaker Miguel Ángel Jiménez gives us the backstory to his new film, Window to the Sea — a...  
26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019
“How we treat the elderly is a measure of the health of a society”
Anna Maria Jóakimsdóttir-Hutri  • Director of Who Stands Up for Alvar?As her film screens at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames, we talked to the Icelandic director...  
28/06/2024 | Future Frames 2024
Fribourg, a triple heritage
Thierry Jobin • Artistic director of the Fribourg Film Festival"Fribourg is, first of all, a form of curiosity, of taste for marginal cinematography"  
20/03/2012
“Showing everything without indulging in sentimentalism meant taking a big risk, and I was perfectly aware of that”
Gianluca Jodice • Director of The FloodThe Naples-born director zooms in on the final months of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI’s lives during the...  
09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande
Producers on the Move 2011 - Iceland
Hlín Jóhannesdóttir • Zik Zak Filmworks01/05/2011
“You can call Lamb a ‘genre film’, but for me, it’s a visual poem”
Valdimar Jóhannsson  • Director of LambCANNES 2021: The Icelandic director proves that, despite what we might think, we can never really control...  
15/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard
“They reminded me of two versions of myself when I was that age”
Philip John • DirectorWelsh director Philip John, who made a name for himself for TV series, Downton Abbey and Outlander,...  
21/10/2016
"Cinemas and distributors should work with each other, but they don't"
Ben Johnson • CEO, GruviCANNES 2019: Ben Johnson, CEO at Gruvi, discusses the approach to marketing and promotion of the UK-based...  
24/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Marché du Film
“Working against traditional film styles makes cinema more powerful”
Frauke Havemann, Eric Schefter, Mark Johnson  • Directors/screenwritersCineuropa sat down with the creative team responsible for the provocative film Weather House to discuss...  
27/01/2017
“To try to destroy the limits of our usual perspective”
Gerard Johnson  • DirectorMeeting at Les Arcs with British director Gerard Johnson to talk about Hyena, his hard-hitting thriller...  
18/12/2014

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