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’s a virtuous circle because these filmmakers come with projects boasting real potential"
Thomas Rosso • General co-ordinator, Critics’ WeekThe general co-ordinator of Cannes' Critics’ Week offers an overview of the dynamic Next Step line-up,...  
02/01/2024 | /France
"We’re working with the future in mind"
Thomas Rosso • Programme Manager, Critics’ WeekThe new programme manager for Cannes’ Critics’ Week looks back on the 7th edition of Next Step which...  
08/01/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics’ Week
“We wanted to make viewers face up to their own stories and to question the meaning and reality of their own fiction”
Gabi Virginia Şarga and Cătălin Rotaru • Directors of Where Elephants GoWe talked with the directorial duo behind the story born from depression but showing a friendlier Bucharest  
25/06/2024 | Transilvania 2024
“I didn't want to make a documentary; I wanted the film to have its own sense of autonomy"
Christopher Roth • Director of Servus Papa, See You in HellThe director discussed his interest in utopias and his wish to depict the power that comes with standing still  
24/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition
“We are very confident about our business model in this fast-changing industry”
Yuan Rothbauer and Andreas Rothbauer • Sales agents, Picture Tree InternationalWe take a closer look at the work carried out by the Berlin-based sales agency and its editorial strategy  
26/07/2022 | /Germany
"Animation is a wonderful means of expression"
Katrin Rothe  • DirectorKatrin Rothe spoke to us at the Arras Film Festival about her remarkable animated documentary 1917 – The...  
14/11/2017
“AI will do simple, trivial things, but it can't create emotionally moving works – it needs artists for that”
Sylvia Rothe  • Chair of AI in media production, HFF University of Television and Film MunichThe artificial intelligence expert tells us more about a series of tools that should prove very useful for...  
13/03/2024 | Incontri 2024
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Jonas Rothlaender • DirectorWe interviewed German filmmaker Jonas Rothlaender, whose first feature Fado screened in competition at the...  
02/06/2016
“Our model might differ from most sales agents, as we are, first and foremost, producers”
Sophie Cabon, Nadine Rothschild • Sales agents, Coproduction OfficeThe two professionals spoke about their focus on auteur-driven films, their carefully designed strategies...  
23/12/2022 | /France/Germany
Video interview - Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Esther Rots - director of Can Go Through SkinEsther Rots - director of Can Go Through Skin  
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Donato Rotunno • DirectorLuxembourgish director and producer Donato Rotunno presented his Baby(a)lone at the Lecce European Film...  
10/04/2016
"Genre cinema offers a lot of freedom in terms of form and discourse"
Jean-Yves Roubin  • Producer, Frakas ProductionsCANNES 2019: We met with Jean-Yves Roubin, founder of Frakas Productions, the co-producer of two films...  
18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Marché du film
“An unreachable place which becomes a metaphor for the dark recesses of memory”
Micol Roubini • Director of The Way to the MountainsWe chatted with Micol Roubini about her highly personal docu-noir The Way to the Mountains which screened...  
13/05/2019
"Done on a hunch"
Jean-Paul Rougier • DistributorTFM, the French distributor of My Summer of Love, has been riding a wave of success which ushered the...  
23/06/2005
Industry report - The Belgian tax shelter
Joseph Roushop - producerThe producer Joseph Roushop talks about the impact of the Belgian tax shelter, introduced in 2002, on his...  
“If you cut short the beginning, how do you reach the end?”
Julie Rousson • General delegate, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film FestivalWith the largest dedicated short-film festival in the world getting under way on 31 January, Cineuropa...  
30/01/2025 | /France

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