Interviews

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

8565 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 04/12/2025. 640 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Luigi Cuciniello • President of the National Association of Cinema Operators (ANEC)

"I don’t think that there is a link between recent market trends and the Cinema2day promotion"

Luigi Cuciniello • President of the National Association of Cinema Operators (ANEC)

The end of the year is a time for taking stock: we posed this idea, along with others, to Luigi Cucinello, president of ANEC, on the eve of the Giornate...  

30/11/2016

Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens  • Directors

"To follow a man who takes control of his destiny"

Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens • Directors

We caught up with Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, whose fourth feature film, King of the Belgians, is being released this week in Belgium  

30/11/2016

Michele Vannucci  • Director

"You don’t have to stack the deck"

Michele Vannucci • Director

Michele Vannucci talks about his debut piece I Was a Dreamer, which was presented at Venice and is based on the real life of the protagonist  

30/11/2016

Marion Hänsel • Director

"The film tells the story of two journeys"

Marion Hänsel • Director

Interview with Belgian director Marion Hänsel to talk about her latest film, Upstream, starring Olivier Gourmet and Sergi López  

30/11/2016

Stefano Amatucci  • Director

"I wanted this film to be a representation of reality, not a picture of it"

Stefano Amatucci • Director

Nisimazine had a chance to talk to Italian director Stefano Amatucci, whose debut feature, Caina, had its world premiere at the Black Nights Film Festival  

29/11/2016

Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari  • Directors

“We have seen the migrants’ strength and their beauty”

Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari • Directors

Cineuropa sat down with Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari, directors of Spectres Are Haunting Europe, which won the Best World Documentary Award at Jihlava...  

28/11/2016

Vassilis Mazomenos  • Director

"The crisis has transformed people into animals"

Vassilis Mazomenos • Director

Greek writer-director-producer Vassilis Mazomenos talks about his new film, Lines, which world-premiered in the Tallinn Black Nights Main Competition  

24/11/2016

Emin Alper  • Director

“No one knows what the future holds”

Emin Alper • Director

Turkish director Emin Alper is back with Frenzy, which won the Special Jury Prize at Venice and is on general release now in France; he also discusses his...  

23/11/2016

Hadi Ghandour  • Director

"I made this movie to find out who I am"

Hadi Ghandour • Director

Paris-based director Hadi Ghandour discusses his first feature, The Traveller, which has just had its world premiere in the Black Nights First Feature...  

23/11/2016

Fernando Trueba  • Director

“Comedy is there to be shared”

Fernando Trueba • Director

Fernando Trueba signs The Queen of Spain, an ensemble, historical comedy in which he revisits the genre and the characters he popularised in The Girl of...  

22/11/2016

Nevio Marasović  • Director

“I had always wanted to do something in the Scandinavian style”

Nevio Marasović • Director

At the Zagreb Film Festival, Cineuropa met up with Croatian filmmaker Nevio Marasović to talk about Goran, the story of a man whose carefree existence comes...  

21/11/2016

Radu Jude  • Director

"A film that revives the past must also discuss the representational aspect of cinema"

Radu Jude • Director

The winner of the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, Radu Jude’s Scarred Hearts, is released on 18 November in Romania  

18/11/2016

Bernd Buder  • Director, FilmFestival Cottbus

“If we have a common thread in our selection, it is diversity”

Bernd Buder • Director, FilmFestival Cottbus

Cineuropa met up with Bernd Buder at Cottbus to ask him about his selection methods and the spectacular growth of the 26-year-old film festival since its...  

17/11/2016

Peter Monsaert  • Director

“Family is the only thing you can’t escape from”

Peter Monsaert • Director

Cineuropa met up with Belgian director Peter Monsaert to discuss his second feature, Flemish Heaven  

16/11/2016

Rebecca Zlotowski • Director

"A story that isn’t afraid of being a bit enigmatic"

Rebecca Zlotowski • Director

French director Rebecca Zlotowski deciphers Planetarium, a film that plumbs the depths of and trouble with suggestion  

16/11/2016

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