Interviews

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

7797 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 24/09/2024. 605 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Laura Houlgatte  • CEO, International Union of Cinemas

“The cinema industry is constantly transforming its relationship with audiences”

Laura Houlgatte • CEO, International Union of Cinemas

At CineEurope 2018 in Barcelona, we chatted to Laura Houlgatte, the CEO of UNIC, about new trends, tools and technologies  

14/06/2018

Mats Grorud • Director

"There’s a lot that isn’t talked about that you have to take the time to unearth"

Mats Grorud • Director

Norwegian director Mats Grorud talks about his debut feature film, The Tower, an animated film unveiled at Annecy  

13/06/2018 | Annecy 2018

David Lambert • Director

"It's my least autobiographical film, and yet my most personal"

David Lambert • Director

We met up with Belgian director and screenwriter David Lambert, whose third feature film, Troisièmes noces, is released this Wednesday in Belgian cinemas  

13/06/2018

Mihai Chirilov  • Artistic director, Transilvania International Film Festival

“I hope film lovers will always prefer the experience of cinema-going”

Mihai Chirilov • Artistic director, Transilvania International Film Festival

We chatted to Transilvania IFF artistic director Mihai Chirilov about this year’s rather nostalgic edition, the perils of political correctness and the...  

07/06/2018 | Transilvania 2018

Emmanuelle Bonmariage • Director

"Manu is never obscene or vulgar, even if he does shake things up a bit"

Emmanuelle Bonmariage • Director

We met up with Emmanuelle Bonmariage, whose film Manu, dedicated to her father Manu Bonmariage, is released this Wednesday, 6 June in Belgian cinemas  

06/06/2018

Pavle Vučković  • Director

“The award will help to give the project a seal of quality”

Pavle Vučković • Director

We spoke to Serbian filmmaker Pavle Vučković just after he won the €20,000 Eurimages Co-production Development Award at this year's Transilvania Pitch Stop  

06/06/2018 | Transilvania 2018 | Industry

Gustav Möller  • Director of The Guilty

“I am a strong believer in boundaries to enhance creativity”

Gustav Möller • Director of The Guilty

Cineuropa chatted to first-time director Gustav Möller about his one-set thriller The Guilty and what makes it so compelling for the audience  

05/06/2018 | Transilvania 2018

Joern Utkilen • Director

"I have no interest in faithfully reproducing reality by creating a simple copy"

Joern Utkilen • Director

Norwegian director Joern Utkilen tells us about his debut feature film Lake over Fire and invites us to ponder his creative process  

05/06/2018

Zosya Rodkevich • Director of White Mama

“We wanted to tell this story from the inside”

Zosya Rodkevich • Director of White Mama

We chatted to Zosya Rodkevich, one of the directors of the Krakow-screened White Mama, about the making of the film and where the protagonists are now  

04/06/2018 | Krakow 2018

Tommaso Arrighi • Producer

“We wanted to make an Icelandic co-production with a European feel to it”

Tommaso Arrighi • Producer

We spoke to Mood Film producer Tommaso Arrighi about the Italian-Icelandic co-production Two Small Italians by Paolo Sassanelli, which is due to hit Italian...  

01/06/2018

Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo • Directors

"We wanted to learn from the best"

Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo • Directors

The D'Innocenzo brothers chat to us about their debut film Boys Cry and their new project, which has just been selected by the Sundance Institute Lab  

31/05/2018

François Damiens • Director

"Nobody can act better than someone who doesn’t know they're acting"

François Damiens • Director

We met up with François Damiens, whose directorial debut, Mon Ket, is released this Wednesday, 30 May in France and Belgium  

30/05/2018

Evelyne Gebhardt • Vice-President of the European Parliament

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Evelyne Gebhardt • Vice-President of the European Parliament

CANNES 2018: We have interviewed Evelyne Gebhardt, Vice-President of the European Parliament, in charge of the LUX Film Prize, to talk about the current...  

29/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Industry

Philippe Lacôte • Director

"Run has been driving the renewal of the film industry in Ivory Coast"

Philippe Lacôte • Director

Cineuropa met up with Franco-Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte, who has just obtained an advance on earnings from the CNC for his second film, La Nuit des rois  

24/05/2018

Julie Bertuccelli  • Director, president of SCAM and patron of SAA

"Without copyright, I would be the first person to have to change jobs"

Julie Bertuccelli • Director, president of SCAM and patron of SAA

We met up with director, president of SCAM and patron of SAA Julie Bertuccelli at Cannes, where she was promoting a new study into the equitable...  

24/05/2018

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