Interviews

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

8330 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 24/07/2025. 665 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Alice Lesort • Sales agent, Les Films du Losange

“The market is more and more polarised”

Alice Lesort • Sales agent, Les Films du Losange

The French sales agent spoke about how the market is changing, forcing sales agents and distributors to be more selective with the content they handle  

16/02/2023 | /France

Alison Kuhn • Director of The Case You

“You need a personal attitude regarding the subject matter as a filmmaker, otherwise nothing good can come out of it”

Alison Kuhn • Director of The Case You

We spoke to the versatile German director, who has made shorts, a series and a documentary, and is now planning her first fiction features  

16/02/2023 | /Germany

Francesca Breccia • Sales agent, Coccinelle Film Sales

“Festivals are now the main theatrical distribution option for independent films”

Francesca Breccia • Sales agent, Coccinelle Film Sales

A chat about the sales agency’s unique business model and about how the market has changed, both during and since the pandemic  

15/02/2023 | /Italy

Carlo Chatrian • Artistic director, Berlin International Film Festival

“Europe is the place where filmmakers can still find not only resources, but also the freedom to have their voices heard”

Carlo Chatrian • Artistic director, Berlin International Film Festival

Cineuropa talks to the Berlinale’s artistic director about the “new beginning” for the gathering, the state of world cinema and iconoclastic programming at...  

15/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023

Peter Badač • Head, Slovak Audiovisual Fund

“I believe we should support a wide range of projects and activities”

Peter Badač • Head, Slovak Audiovisual Fund

Cineuropa sat down with the new head of the public funding body, which aims to support and help develop audiovisual culture, in order to discuss his new...  

15/02/2023 | /Slovakia

Julien Razafindranaly • Sales agent, Films Boutique

“Our work has changed, but it does so all the time because the way movies are being shown keeps on changing”

Julien Razafindranaly • Sales agent, Films Boutique

The French sales agent talked us through the company’s editorial policy and its efforts to reconcile high-quality arthouse ambitions with today’s market demands  

14/02/2023 | /Germany/France

Dennis Ruh • Director, European Film Market

“We are able to offer a state-of-the-art market experience”

Dennis Ruh • Director, European Film Market

The head of the EFM offers an overview of the market set to unspool from 16-22 February and shares his experience of organising this edition  

13/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | EFM

Jenni Zylka • Director of Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale

"I like the fact that a festival that takes place in Germany puts up-and-coming German filmmakers on a pedestal"

Jenni Zylka • Director of Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale

We spoke to the new head of the Berlinale section dedicated to young filmmakers from Germany and about her approach to this year's programme  

10/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Perspektive Deutsches Kino

Corinna Marschall and Laurent Steiert • Director of MEDIA Desk Suisse, and Deputy Head of the Film Department at the Swiss Federal Office of Culture

"A co-production is like a marriage: the more trust is built, the better the relationship works"

Corinna Marschall and Laurent Steiert • Director of MEDIA Desk Suisse, and Deputy Head of the Film Department at the Swiss Federal Office of Culture

Switzerland is implementing a new funding measure aimed at the co-development for minority co-productions  

10/02/2023 | /Switzerland

Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis • Directors of Heads or Tails?

"We wanted to do a full-on western film. A real western, like they used to shoot in the old days: gritty, dirty and savage"

Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis • Directors of Heads or Tails?

We spoke to the second winners of this year’s CineMart Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, who are devising an Italian (and not spaghetti) western  

10/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | IFFR Pro

Marina Stepanska • Director of Consider Vera

“It’s important for us to stay subjective in the huge world of European voices because for 70 years before this, our stories were told by Russians”

Marina Stepanska • Director of Consider Vera

We spoke to the winner of this year’s Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at IFFR Pro’s CineMart, who is mounting a personal story of female...  

09/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | IFFR Pro

Guido van der Werve • Director of The Breath of Life

“Cinema is a solution to what I want to do, and that is to touch people”

Guido van der Werve • Director of The Breath of Life

We spoke to the Dutch director about his intimate self-portrait, in which he processes a dramatic life experience  

08/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Tiger Competition

Dinara Drukarova • Director of Woman at Sea

“I hope the film is received as both a visual poem and a realistic tale”

Dinara Drukarova • Director of Woman at Sea

The Paris-based Russian actress chats to us about her directorial debut, adapted from the French literary hit Grand Marin by Catherine Poulain  

07/02/2023 | /France/Belgium/Iceland

Selma Vilhunen • Director of Four Little Adults

“I have found in the concept of polyamory the strongest form of love”

Selma Vilhunen • Director of Four Little Adults

The Finnish director talks about her film, a comedy that tells the story of four individuals and their sentimental experiments  

07/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Big Screen Competition

Sahim Omar Kalifa • Director of Baghdad Messi

"This story is a metaphor for the way the Iraqi dream has been annihilated"

Sahim Omar Kalifa • Director of Baghdad Messi

We met with the Belgian-Kurdish director who chose to reinvent his hit, short film and turn it into a feature film  

03/02/2023 | /Belgium/Netherlands/Iraq

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