Interviews

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

8168 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 08/05/2025. 660 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“This peaceful story can resonate with international audiences just as strongly as our war stories”
Olga Semak  • Director of DemiurgeThe Ukrainian director regales us with more details on her tale of a Kyiv stage artist who returns to his...  
13/12/2023 | /Ukraine
“Writing a film is like being a gold miner. You work hard everyday, but when you finally find the gem you’ve been searching for so long, it feels like enlightenment”
Yuri Semashko • Director of The Swan Song of Fedor OzerovBERLINALE 2025: The Belarusian director told us about the musical, personal and artistic inspirations...  
18/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum
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Stanislav Semerdjiev • Executive Director CILECTThe goal of the association of the world’s major film and television schools is to provide a means for the...  
Berlinale 2010
Semih Kaplanoglu • directorSemih Kaplanoglu discusses his Berlinale competition winner Honey and where it stands in his backwards...  
“We were both enraptured when we saw him on stage”
Leire Apellaniz and Marc Sempere-Moya • Directors of Cosmic Chant. Niño de ElcheThe filmmaking duo got up close and personal with the unorthodox Andalusian artist to assemble a collage...  
04/02/2022 | /Spain
“We live in a state of violence”
Partho Sen-Gupta  • Director of SlamCineuropa met up with Indian-born director Partho Sen-Gupta to discuss his new film, Slam, after its world...  
29/11/2018 | Black Nights 2018 | Competition
"The most important thing was to build a relationship of trust to be able to shoot with the whole family"
Shaunak Sen  • Director of All That BreathesCANNES 2022: New Delhi’s notoriously polluted air is in the centre of the acclaimed documentary by the...  
01/06/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Special Screenings
BIFFF - Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2010
Cristopher Roth, by Max SenderInterview with the director of the movie presented in competition at the BIFFF.  
“It's my job to learn, to educate myself and to try to understand more about this world through cinema”
Ena Sendijarević  • Director of Sweet DreamsThe Amsterdam-based Bosnian director gives us the low-down on how she made her idiosyncratic period film...  
10/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition
"We can become anyone we want once we realise that we can construct our own reality"
Ena Sendijarević  • Director of Take Me Somewhere NiceWe chatted to emerging director-scriptwriter Ena Sendijarević to find out more about her debut feature...  
27/01/2019 | IFFR 2019 | Tiger Competition
"What happens if the balance is thrown out of kilter?"
Guillaume Senez • DirectorCANNES 2018: We met up with Guillaume Senez, whose second feature, Our Struggles, toplined by Romain...  
13/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Critics’ Week
“There is something very beautiful about adolescence… the spontaneity of it”
Guillaume Senez  ­• DirectorLOCARNO 2015: Cineuropa meets Franco-Belgian director Guillaume Senez, whose moving and gripping feature...  
13/08/2015
"I wanted to move towards something more lyrical, to find greater depth"
Guillaume Senez • Director of A Missing PartThe Belgian director is back with a new film, which sees him continuing to explore his favourite theme –...  
10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece
Interview - Venice Days 2014
Aditya Vikram Sengupta  • DirectorVENICE 2014: Indian director Aditya Vikram Sengupta brings a moving story to Venice Days about a husband...  
02/09/2014
Love triangle against the backdrop of immigration
Sören Senn • Director20/06/2006
“When you are able to topple the old regime, that does not automatically mean you are able to build a better one”
Oleg Sentsov  • Director of NumbersBERLINALE 2020: Ukrainian helmer Oleh Sentsov, who made his new film, Numbers, while in prison, talked to...  
03/03/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Special

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