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 14/06/2025. 669 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“This man was building his future on the death of his father”
Mohamed Rashad • Director of The SettlementBERLINALE 2025: The Alexandria-based filmmaker breaks down his narrative debut, which was born of a...  
19/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Perspectives
"We create a virtual theatre with the headsets, but there's much more to it than just filming a play"
Elio Germano, Omar Rashid   • Directors of Segnale d'allarme - La mia battagliaVENICE 2019: We spoke to Elio Germano and Omar Rashid about their VR film Segnale d'allarme - La mia...  
01/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Giornate degli Autori
"With Brexit, we have to reevaluate if we stay a UK company or not"
Xavier Henry Rashid • Sales agent, Film RepublicBERLIN 2019: We chatted with Xavier Henry Rashid, sales agent at British company Film Republic, at the...  
22/02/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | EFM
"Increased transparency would strengthen the sustainability of the sector in the long run"
Nina Vindum Rasmussen • Researcher, London School of Economics and Political ScienceThe scholar breaks down on one of her recent journal articles, which examines how screen workers interact...  
14/08/2024 | /Europe
“My collaborators are the victims of a slow form of torture”
Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred FigThe Iranian director fills us in on the background to his Cannes-awarded film as well as on the current...  
15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande
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Pen-ek Ratanaruang • DirectorVENICE 2017: Thai filmmaker Pen-ek Ratanaruang is presenting Samui Song, his new film co-produced with...  
30/08/2017
“We have created a special niche for ourselves in the German documentary landscape”
Sonia Otto, Arek Gielnik and Dietmar Ratsch • Producers, Indi FilmGerman Films interviewed Sonia Otto, Arek Gielnik and Dietmar Ratsch of Indi Film to know more about their...  
28/12/2018
"The first black Jesus film in the European film history"
Milo Rau • Director of The New GospelVENICE 2020: With The New Gospel, Swiss director Milo Rau adapts the Bible to the present day, depicting...  
08/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori
“Horror needs to feel physical”
Ilja Rautsi  • Director of The Night of the Living DicksCineuropa chatted to writer-director Ilja Rautsi, who is about to blow existing ideas about Finnish cinema...  
27/03/2020 | /Finland/Denmark
“Technology can never replace human connections in various international markets”
Alessandro Ravani • Commercial Director, RAI ComOn the occasion of the beginning of MIPCOM in Cannes, the man responsible for the sale of RAI content...  
17/10/2022 | /Italy
“I like unlucky people”
Rolando Ravello • DirectorAdmired cinema and television actor Rolando Ravello takes his first steps behind the recording camera with...  
22/02/2013
“Women directors represent only one in every five films – we want to see a change”
Francine H Raveney  • Audiovisual consultant/EWA Network head of public relationsAt the Berlin Film Festival, Cineuropa had a chat with Francine H Raveney, of the EWA Network, to discover...  
03/03/2016
"My film eschews the commonplace"
Imanol Rayo  • Director of Death KnellWe chatted to Imanol Rayo at San Sebastián after he presented his second film, Death Knell, which glides...  
28/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | New Directors
“Our work has changed, but it does so all the time because the way movies are being shown keeps on changing”
Julien Razafindranaly • Sales agent, Films BoutiqueThe French sales agent talked us through the company’s editorial policy and its efforts to reconcile...  
14/02/2023 | /Germany/France
“You always have to walk an extra mile when you’re representing a smaller film industry”
Marija Razgutė  • Producer, M-FilmsWe talk to Lithuanian producer Marija Razgutė, who established M-Films and has been now selected as one of...  
14/05/2020 | Producers on the Move 2020
“We screenwriters all put a lot of ourselves into the characters”
Omar Al Abdul Razzak  • Director of Killing CrabsThe director-producer has picked up the Best Feature Award in the Canarias Cinema section of the Las...  
20/04/2023 | Las Palmas 2023

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