Interviews

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

8160 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 03/05/2025. 661 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“Our competition this year is more about psychonautic exploration”
Ewa Szabłowska  • Artistic director, mBank New Horizons IFFOne of the artistic directors of the Polish gathering outlines this year’s programme and explains the...  
18/07/2024 | New Horizons 2024
"The only reason to make a film is to help the audience to understand they are not alone dealing with their problems"
István Szabó  • DirectorThe Veteran Hungarian director, who has received the Lifetime Achievement Golden Olive at the European...  
16/11/2021 | Lecce 2021
"With freedom come responsibilities"
Istvan Szabo • Director14/10/2008
“If one would still like to be with others in the future, the cinema will remain”
István Szabó • Director of Final ReportDecorated Hungarian filmmaker István Szabó enlightens us about his melancholic and comic Final Report,...  
30/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition
“We wanted to study the paradox of sacrifice”
Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó  • Directors of White Plastic SkyFirst presented in the Berlinale’s Encounters section, the film is a spectacular post-apocalyptic animated...  
28/11/2023 | /Hungary/Slovakia
"The six-week adoption law in Hungary is a very suspenseful situation for a film"
Noemi Veronika Szakonyi  • Director of Six WeeksThe Hungarian filmmaker discusses her film, which follows a young mother of an unwanted child who has six...  
23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition
“I didn't want to make a film in which queerness was a problem”
André Szardenings • Director of BulldogWe talked about the German director’s first feature, in which he tells the story of a particularly...  
28/10/2022 | /Germany/Spain
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Janos Szász • DirectorThe Notebook was named best film at the Karlovy Vary Festival  
04/07/2013
“Watching a film is a form of ritual”
Jagoda Szelc  • DirectorBERLIN 2018: We talked to Jagoda Szelc, whose debut film, Tower. A Bright Day, has had its world premiere...  
17/02/2018 | Berlinale 2018 | Forum
"My basic idea is that the more absurd I make things, the more they somehow reflect reality"
Rozália Szeleczki  • Director of Cat CallThe Hungarian filmmaker details her film, which follows a 30-year-old trapped in a world of her own...  
23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition
"We all grew up with families who talked about a world that no longer existed”
Bálint Szentgyörgyi • Creator and director of The InformantThe young Hungarian director spoke enthusiastically about his eight-part series, which had its...  
09/11/2021 | Geneva 2021
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Zsófia Szilágyi • Director of One DayCANNES 2018: Hungarian filmmaker Zsófia Szilágyi talked to us about her first feature, One Day  
15/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Critics' Week 
“We wanted to capture the essence of being a child”
Bálint Szimler • Director of Lesson LearnedThe Hungarian director, who grew up in the USA but moved back to Hungary at the age of nine, can relate to...  
14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente
“Our ambition is to become the go-to platform for emerging talents and their needs”
Malaika Bova, Martyna Szmytkowska • Artistic directors, Raindance Film FestivalThe artistic directors give us the low-down on how the London-based event, now in its 32nd year, is...  
19/06/2024 | /UK
“Dangers, opportunities and the dynamics of roles”
Petra Szőcs  • DirectorCANNES 2014: Cineuropa met up with Petra Szőcs, director of the short film The Execution, in competition...  
27/05/2014
“People are too complicated for simple statements”
Petra Szőcs  • Director of DevaVENICE 2018: We met up with filmmaker and poet Petra Szőcs to talk about her debut feature, Deva, shown at...  
11/09/2018 | Venice 2018 | Biennale College Cinema

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