Interviews

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

8562 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 02/12/2025. 642 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“This year, it became clear that many stories are about people finding their place or those who never manage to”
Fionnuala Halligan • Director of international film programming, Red Sea International Film FestivalThe programmer breaks down this year’s selection process and how she works with Saudi audiences  
02/12/2025 | Red Sea 2025
2009 Producer on the Move - Finland
Matti Halonen21/04/2009
"Clouds are like characters and they represent something larger than human understanding"
Tuija Halttunen  • Director of How to Kill a CloudThe Finnish director tells us how she made a film about ethics rather than science  
03/05/2021 | CPH:DOX 2021 | Nordic:Dox Award
“I wanted this year's event to reflect both traditional strengths and emerging trends in the region's film industry”
Line Halvorsen • Programme director, New Nordic Films, HaugesundThe programme director looks back at a rewarding experience as the 2024 edition of New Nordic Films in...  
27/08/2024 | Haugesund 2024 | New Nordic Films
"What would happen if starting from now, very suddenly, the privacy is gone?"
Frédéric Hambalek • Director of What Marielle KnowsBERLINALE 2025: The German director delves into his new film, in which he follows a mother and a father...  
22/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition
“The movie comes from anger or a sense of bitterness”
Muhammed Hamdy • Director of Perfumed with MintVENICE 2024: In his feature debut, the Egyptian director forces a group of men to confront the shadows of...  
06/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week
"My co-director, Tatiana Chistova, and I depict the situation endured by Russian pensioners during the pandemic"
Maciej Hamela • Co-director of Bless You!CANNES 2021: We talked to the winner of the brand-new Doc Alliance Award for Best Short Film at this...  
04/08/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Marché du Film
“He who carries the heaviest load is he who has nothing to carry”
Bent Hamer  • DirectorCineuropa met up with Bent Hamer, the director of 1001 Grams, which has been picked to represent Norway in...  
02/10/2014
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Bent Hamer • DirectorInterview with Norwegian director Bent Hamer at the San Sebastian Film Festival 2010. The director talks...  
29/09/2010
"Going where the story takes you"
Bent Hamer • DirectorBent Hamer • Factotum's director  
10/03/2006
“The human aspect of the story always has to be there to attract me”
Bent Hamer • Director of The Middle ManThe Norwegian filmmaker talked to Cineuropa about his new film and how it explores human dynamics within...  
27/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Special Presentations
"It’s not a case of the army against a family of suburban Arabs"
Rachid Hami • Director of For My CountryVENICE 2022: The director sheds light on his second feature, a fiction film inspired by the accidental...  
05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti
“I have lived through the experience of exile”
Saïd Hamich Benlarbi • Director of Across the SeaCANNES 2024: In his new film, the French-Moroccan director salutes the dreamers and those who never truly...  
18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week
“DeLorean was a part of the culture”
Nick Hamm  • DirectorVENICE 2018: We chatted to Northern Irish director Nick Hamm about Driven, his biopic about John DeLorean,...  
12/09/2018 | Venice 2018 | Out of Competition
Shooting Star 2006 - Hungary
Gabriella Hámori • Actress06/02/2006
“Hypocrisy is everywhere, not only in the Muslim world”
Maysaloun Hamoud  • DirectorWe met up with Maysaloun Hamoud, the young Palestinian director of In Between, which hits Italian screens...  
05/04/2017

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