Interviews

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

8477 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 10/10/2025. 656 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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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

Philip Sotnychenko • Director of La Palisiada

“Cinema is very often built on feelings, like music and poetry”

Philip Sotnychenko • Director of La Palisiada

The Ukrainian director breaks down his film about two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigating the murder of their colleague  

03/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Tiger Competition

Edgar Pêra • Director of The Nothingness Club

"I guess it was the film I discussed most with everyone before we finally started shooting"

Edgar Pêra • Director of The Nothingness Club

We spoke with the director about his feverish homage to the creative genius of Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa  

03/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Big Screen Competition

Abbas Amini • Director of Endless Borders

“Exile is still a reality that exists in Iran”

Abbas Amini • Director of Endless Borders

The Iranian helmer talked us through the writing process behind his film, his work with the DoP and the composer, and the importance of forbidden love  

03/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Big Screen Competition

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