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. 582 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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"It is good to keep co-financing as active as co-producing"

Tero Kaukomaa • Managing Director of Blind Spot Pictures

08/10/2007

Tero Kaukomaa  • Producer

“Crowdfunding is becoming more common and better defined”

Tero Kaukomaa • Producer

In the run-up to the first edition of Brussels’ Frontières Market, Cineuropa talks to Finnish producer...  

03/04/2014

Karolis Kaupinis • Director of Nova Lituania

“You recognise yourself better in the past than in the present”

Karolis Kaupinis • Director of Nova Lituania

We caught up with Lithuanian director Karolis Kaupinis to delve deeper into his feature debut, Nova Lituania  

04/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | East of the West

Aki Kaurismäki  • Director

“We are all the same; we are all human”

Aki Kaurismäki • Director

BERLIN 2017: Finnish writer-director Aki Kaurismäki spoke to the international press at the Berlinale to...  

15/02/2017

My characters, hopeless optimists

Aki Kaurismäki • Director

Le Havre describes a world of marginalised individuals who express great mutual solidarity and it even has...  

24/11/2011

"Cut & Print"!

Aki Kaurismäki • Director

Cinema the Finnish Way: no money, a few shadows and just one take  

22/05/2002

Interview - Lecce European Film Festival 2013

Aki Kaurismäki • Protagonist of European Cinema in Lecce

Cineuropa met Aki Kaurismäki at the fourteenth edition of the European film festival in Lecce (8-13 April...  

Mika Kaurismäki • Director of Gracious Night

“There is coronavirus, but there is also Corona Bar”

Mika Kaurismäki • Director of Gracious Night

Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki assures us that only the finest wines were imbibed during the making of...  

30/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition

Mika Kaurismäki • Director of The Grump: In Search of an Escort

“I like tragicomedies where something that you look at closely may seem very sad, and when you look from farther away, it can be very funny”

Mika Kaurismäki • Director of The Grump: In Search of an Escort

The Finnish director told us how he proceeded when adapting the story of a grumpy old man with a passion...  

24/11/2022 | /Finland

Alanté Kavaïté  • Director

“Nothing is ever simple and straightforward”

Alanté Kavaïté • Director

Lithuanian director living in Paris Alanté Kavaïté decodes her second feature, The Summer of Sangaile,...  

16/01/2015

Fissures

Alanté Kavaïté • Director

13/06/2007

Ivan Kavanagh  • Director of Never Grow Old

“This was an extremely ambitious film on our budget, but I think we pulled it off”

Ivan Kavanagh • Director of Never Grow Old

We met up with Ireland's Ivan Kavanagh, the writer-director of the western Never Grow Old, set to be...  

15/03/2019

Marija Kavtaradze  • Director of Slow

“My goal was to tell a love story”

Marija Kavtaradze • Director of Slow

The Lithuanian filmmaker lets the bodies do the talking in her touching romance involving a contemporary...  

20/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Marija Kavtaradzė • Director of Summer Survivors

"I send my love to those people who see themselves or their loved ones in our characters"

Marija Kavtaradzė • Director of Summer Survivors

We chatted to Lithuanian director-scriptwriter Marija Kavtaradzė about her feature debut, Summer...  

19/09/2018 | Toronto 2018 | Discovery

Maciej Kawalski  • Director of Dangerous Men

“It was a long process of writing, rewriting, script-doctoring and ‘killing my darlings’ to make the story airtight”

Maciej Kawalski • Director of Dangerous Men

The director’s feature debut, an adventure-comedy set in 1914, featuring major literary and political...  

25/10/2022 | Warsaw 2022

Cem Kaya • Director of Love, Deutschmarks and Death

“All generations of artists comment on their life in Germany”

Cem Kaya • Director of Love, Deutschmarks and Death

BERLINALE 2022: The Panorama-screened documentary shows how closely connected the history of Turkish music...  

17/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Panorama

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