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Weekly feature introducing you to film professionals from all over Europe sorted by name.
8161 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 06/05/2025. 662 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.
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European Distributors: Up Next! - Slovenia
08/09/2008
“We all grew to be like a family during the making of the film”
We spoke with the filmmaker, artist and dancer about his very personal film which is a portrait and a love...
31/01/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Tiger Competition
"Fiction and imagination are also part of reality, and as a member of the audience, I like to have the opportunity to build my own story"
We sat down with the director to discuss his fable - part documentary, part fiction and tinged with...
11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings
“My film is a counter-attack against our tragic fate”
The unclassifiable and iconoclastic artist, filmmaker, poet provocateur and agitator is offering up the...
02/02/2022 | /Belgium
Shooting Star 2010 - Romania
Romanian Shooting Star tells how he started to act in theatre by coincidence when he was a teenager. His...
Interview
27/09/2011
“If we have a common thread in our selection, it is diversity”
Cineuropa met up with Bernd Buder at Cottbus to ask him about his selection methods and the spectacular...
17/11/2016
“If you want to win an audience and keep it, you have to deal with all age groups”
Bernd Buder talks about the different programmes of the Cottbus Film Festival
24/03/2022 | Euro Film Fest
“If you deal with film and Eastern Europe, you inevitably deal with politics”
We met up with Bernd Buder, the programme director of the Film Festival Cottbus, the 28th edition of which...
05/11/2018 | Cottbus 2018
“Our main focus needs to be on strengthening the connection between the film and its audience”
We talked to Bernd Buder, the programme director of FilmFestival Cottbus, about this year's hybrid, or...
21/10/2020 | Cottbus 2020
Mid-way between a dream and reality
In Lettere al Vento the Albanian director presents the crude reality of everyday life in the country on...
09/07/2003
"It's not religion that divides people, but our different interests that use it"
Albanian director Robert Budina discusses his second feature, A Shelter Among The Clouds, world-premiered...
05/12/2018 | Black Nights 2018 | Competition
“We wanted to have a kind of anatomy of our society, but also of the relationship you have with your family, career, society and politics”
The Albanian director shares the sociopolitical inspirations behind his latest film and its complex main...
16/10/2024 | Warsaw 2024
“Docu-fiction was the optimal solution”
Cineuropa sat down with Dana Budisavljević to talk about her film The Diary of Diana B., which won big at...
30/07/2019 | Pula 2019
“The way a festival is experienced in a cinema cannot be reproduced outdoors or online”
We talked with the founders of Romania’s oldest documentary gathering about the challenges they...
20/10/2022 | Astra 2022
“It is not enough to have a history; it is more important to be relevant”
We chatted to Dumitru Budrala, founding director of the Astra Film Festival, about the relationship...
24/10/2019 | Astra 2019
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