Interviews

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

7476 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 27/03/2024. 583 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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"Loyal to a great author"

Margaret Menegoz • Producer

Director since 1975 of production, distribution and international sales company Les Films du Losange,...  

30/09/2005

"Ambition is not solely about money and casting"

Cyril Mennegun • Director

Cyril Mennegun deciphers the surprising success of Louise Wimmer and talks about his second feature film,...  

02/04/2013

Kenneth Mercken • Director of Coureur

“The storyline’s authenticity was paramount”

Kenneth Mercken • Director of Coureur

Cineuropa sat down with Belgian director Kenneth Mercken to talk about fictionalising his real-life story...  

30/01/2019 | IFFR 2019 | Limelight

Christian Carmosino Mereu • Director of Land of Upright People

"This kind of impassioned involvement in politics took me back to my childhood years"

Christian Carmosino Mereu • Director of Land of Upright People

VENICE 2022: The Italian helmer chats about his documentary, which he shot in Burkina Faso from the 2014...  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Salvatore Mereu • Director

Two girls living in a downtrodden Cagliari neighborhood star in an exhilarating, bitter comedy  

06/09/2012

Mereu’s anti-hero Sonétaula

Salvatore Mereu • Director

07/03/2008

Salvatore Mereu • Director of Assandira

“When you choose a book to adapt, you do it almost on an unconscious level”

Salvatore Mereu • Director of Assandira

VENICE 2020: We talked to Salvatore Mereu, the director of Assandira, based on the novel by Giulio Angioni  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

Salvatore Mereu • Director of Bentu

"This farmer, whose way of life is so distant from our own, reminds us that we don't have the right relationship with nature"

Salvatore Mereu • Director of Bentu

VENICE 2022: The director follows the day-to-day life of an elderly farmer as he waits for the wind to...  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Rasmus Merivoo • Director of Kratt

“In some ways, my film is like a nature documentary: you show how little people live, how the world affects them and how they affect the world”

Rasmus Merivoo • Director of Kratt

We talked to the Estonian director about his film, which is really for the whole family, even though...  

10/08/2021 | Fantasia 2021

"Shattering the stereotypical image of the butch female cop in a leather jacket"

Frédéric Mermoud • Director

After several acclaimed shorts, Swiss-born, French-based director Frédéric Mermoud has made an impressive...  

14/10/2010

Mehmet Can Mertoglu • Director

"I neither hate nor sympathise with the characters"

Mehmet Can Mertoglu • Director

CANNES 2016: Young Turkish filmmaker Mehmet Can Mertoglu talks about his debut feature, Albüm, which was...  

13/05/2016

Lorenz Merz • Director of Soul of a Beast

“My movies don’t just function on an intellectual level”

Lorenz Merz • Director of Soul of a Beast

The young Swiss director talks to us about his second feature, which is competing in the Locarno Film...  

06/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Valentin Merz • Director of De noche los gatos son pardos

"I wanted the actors and their characters to have enough space to explore their own desires"

Valentin Merz • Director of De noche los gatos son pardos

With his debut feature, the Swiss filmmaker brings us into a mysterious world of desire, revolt and lightness  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Rocío Mesa • Director of Tobacco Barns

“I’m rural and psychedelic”

Rocío Mesa • Director of Tobacco Barns

In her first fiction feature, the filmmaker recreates her childhood and adolescence in southern Spain,...  

22/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | New Directors

Simón Mesa Soto  • Director

“I wanted to show the vulnerability of the teenagers in such harsh conditions”

Simón Mesa Soto • Director

CANNES 2014: Cineuropa met up with Simón Mesa Soto, who directed the short film Leidi, winner of the...  

30/05/2014

Piero Messina  • Director

"My film is built on the power of suggestion and memory"

Piero Messina • Director

VENICE 2015: The debut film of Italian director Piero Messina, The Wait, is in competition at the Venice...  

07/09/2015

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