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.

 
Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of The Happiest Man in the World

“I will never be able to shoot films in any other way, going to the heart of the emotion, in the truth of the moment”

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of The Happiest Man in the World

The Macedonian filmmaker tells us about her latest film, unveiled in the Orizzonti programme in Venice, and in Competition at Les Arcs Film Festival  

15/12/2022 | Les Arcs 2022

Pierre Földes • Director of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

"What interested me was to talk about mysterious things, which already opens a door to the supernatural"

Pierre Földes • Director of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

The director talks about his animated feature film adapted from Haruki Murakami, awarded in Annecy and in Competition at Les Arcs Film Festival  

15/12/2022 | Les Arcs 2022

Fulvio Risuleo • Director of Ghost Night

"When there’s less time, we pay greater attention"

Fulvio Risuleo • Director of Ghost Night

The Italian filmmaker discusses his third film, unveiled in Venice and competing in the Les Arcs Film Festival  

15/12/2022 | Les Arcs 2022

Toshiyuki Hasegawa  • Programming director of Skip City International D-Cinema Festival

"The requirement for the international competition section is that they are only Japanese premieres"

Toshiyuki Hasegawa • Programming director of Skip City International D-Cinema Festival

Toshiyuki Hasegawa talks about the structure of the festival programme, how they finance the events and how they designed the marketing strategies to...  

14/12/2022 | Euro Film Fest

Manny de Guerre   • Founder and Director Side by side LGTB Film Festival

"The idea behind the festival was to create a space for LGTB people and also a straight people to bring them together and to start talking about difficult LGTB issues."

Manny de Guerre • Founder and Director Side by side LGTB Film Festival

In this interview, Manny de Guerre explains what it's like to manage pressure from the authorities and homophobic opposition while trying to organize a...  

14/12/2022 | Euro Film Fest

Floor van der Meulen • Director of Pink Moon

“We no longer know if we should laugh or cry about it. But that’s life, isn’t it?”

Floor van der Meulen • Director of Pink Moon

The Dutch filmmaker talks to us about her Tribeca-awarded film, which is now in competition at Les Arcs Film Festival  

14/12/2022 | Les Arcs 2022

GoCritic! Interview: Jonathan Laskar  • Director of The Record

“Music is an emotional language, a recording of the past”

GoCritic! Interview: Jonathan Laskar • Director of The Record

The Swiss animator competed this year at Animateka and we spoke to him about his film’s genesis and the transportive power of music  

13/12/2022 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2022

Juraj Lehotský • Director of Plastic Symphony

“Every film I make reflects a specific phase in people's lives”

Juraj Lehotský • Director of Plastic Symphony

Cineuropa talks to the Slovak director about his latest fiction film, which was shot during the pandemic and which stars Polish actor Bartosz Bielenia in...  

13/12/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Amra Bakšić Čamo  • Producer, pro.ba

“The injection of money through BH Content Lab really changed the production landscape for serialised content in Bosnia”

Amra Bakšić Čamo • Producer, pro.ba

We talked to the producer about the changing landscape for TV series production in Bosnia and the role she is playing in this process  

13/12/2022 | NEM Zagreb 2022

GoCritic! Interview: Ekin Koca • Director of The Immoral

“There are lots of human mechanisms that I am interested in”

GoCritic! Interview: Ekin Koca • Director of The Immoral

Levan Tskhovrebadze chatted with the young Paris-based Turkish animator Ekin Koca about his film which competed in Animateka Ljubljana's European Young...  

13/12/2022 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2022

Marta Cruañas Compés  • Producer of Sealskin

“Our main focus is to discover new voices and build a strong creative relationship with them”

Marta Cruañas Compés • Producer of Sealskin

We caught up with the producer of Irene Moray’s new project, which won the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at the TorinoFilmLab  

12/12/2022 | TorinoFilmLab 2022

Theo Montoya  • Director of Anhell69

“We’re entering a trans era”

Theo Montoya • Director of Anhell69

The Colombian director is surprising audiences everywhere with his award-winning feature debut, in which he portrays his country’s disillusioned youth in...  

12/12/2022 | Lanzarote 2022

Norika Sefa • Director of Looking for Venera

“I didn’t want the film to exploit the poverty of Balkan countries”

Norika Sefa • Director of Looking for Venera

We talked to the Kosovar director, whose feature debut unspooled at International Film Festival Rotterdam and has now been submitted for the Oscars, for...  

12/12/2022 | /Kosovo

GoCritic! Interview: Žoel Kastelic • Director of Nov Dom (New Home)

“That feeling of bringing an object to life is still magical for me”

GoCritic! Interview: Žoel Kastelic • Director of Nov Dom (New Home)

We chatted to Slovenian animation director Žoel Kastelic about her passion for stop motion and AR animation  

12/12/2022 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2022

GoCritic! Interview: Sunčana Brkulj • Director of Stinky in the Dark Forest

“My life experiences were my main inspiration, but I wanted it to be something that everybody could identify with”

GoCritic! Interview: Sunčana Brkulj • Director of Stinky in the Dark Forest

Milena Pantović chatted with the Croatian animator Sunčana Brkuljk about her film which screened in the European Young Talents section at Animateka Ljubljana  

12/12/2022 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2022

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