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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Bruno Castro • Director, Alvalade Cineclube

"We need to move beyond preconceived ideas"

Bruno Castro • Director, Alvalade Cineclube

The Portuguese professional spoke to us about the situation in his country and the important role played by film clubs in guiding audiences back to cinemas  

11/10/2022 | /Portugal

Bettina Blümner • Director of Vamos a la playa

“Humour is how we cope with life, especially today”

Bettina Blümner • Director of Vamos a la playa

In the German director’s awkward new movie, privilege meets good intentions, to amusing effect  

06/10/2022 | Zurich 2022

Solomiia Tomashcuk • Director of Between Us

“These are just the questions that I myself wanted to answer, and I posed them to my heroines”

Solomiia Tomashcuk • Director of Between Us

The Ukrainian director sat down with us to discuss her psychological thriller revolving around an unusual friendship and its tragic consequences  

06/10/2022 | Hamburg 2022

Claudia Pacher • PR and communications consultant

"Niche programming is the future"

Claudia Pacher • PR and communications consultant

The Austrian expert explains what she believes to be the winning marketing strategies in the evolving cinema industry  

06/10/2022 | /Austria

Mikel Gurrea • Director of Suro

“It’s the stories that draw me to them”

Mikel Gurrea • Director of Suro

The Basque filmmaker talks to us about his feature debut, on the heels of the enthusiastic welcome it received at the San Sebastián and Zurich Film Festivals  

06/10/2022 | Abycine 2022

Andrii Kokura • Director of Pokut

“From the age of 15, or maybe even earlier, I understood that I could make a full-length film”

Andrii Kokura • Director of Pokut

We spoke to the 19-year-old Ukrainian director about his feature debut and the tragedy that struck during its filming  

05/10/2022 | Hamburg 2022

Soňa Morgenthalová • Programme coordinator, MIDPOINT

“Over the past year, we’ve been delighted to see the Feature Launch projects premiering at the most prominent European film festivals”

Soňa Morgenthalová • Programme coordinator, MIDPOINT

Cineuropa talked with the programme coordinator about the upcoming edition of MIDPOINT Feature Launch and about what has changed compared to previous years  

05/10/2022 | MIDPOINT 2023

Laura Kaehr • Director of Becoming Giulia

"Dance was the language I grew up with"

Laura Kaehr • Director of Becoming Giulia

The director of the documentary on Giulia Tonelli, prima ballerina at the Zurich Opera, doesn’t need words to talk to her audience  

04/10/2022 | Zurich 2022

Christian Lollike • Director of The Cake Dynasty

“It’s good to get a chance to laugh and cry at the same time”

Christian Lollike • Director of The Cake Dynasty

While discussing his new film about a cake factory facing ruin, the Danish director talks laughter, tears and everything in between  

03/10/2022 | Zurich 2022

Edward Berger • Director of All Quiet on the Western Front

“What we associate with the two wars is shame, grief, destruction and guilt; I wanted to make a film out of this heritage”

Edward Berger • Director of All Quiet on the Western Front

We chatted to the German director about his Netflix-financed adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s bestseller, also selected as his country’s Oscars submission  

03/10/2022 | Zurich 2022

Rimantė Daugėlaitė • Head, Baltic Pitching Forum

“Our strength is that the Baltic Pitching Forum is one of the few events where you can meet so many Baltic filmmakers at once”

Rimantė Daugėlaitė • Head, Baltic Pitching Forum

The head of the forum told Cineuropa how it became the Baltic region’s leading short-film industry event and what to expect from this year’s edition  

30/09/2022 | Baltic Pitching Forum 2022

Hans-Christian Schmid • Director of We Are Next of Kin

“Handheld cameras are often intuitive – when characters start moving, they do too”

Hans-Christian Schmid • Director of We Are Next of Kin

The German director discusses his adaptation of the novel based on a real-life kidnapping  

30/09/2022 | Hamburg 2022

Uli Decker • Director of Anima – My Father's Dresses

"The categorical distinction between fiction and documentary is artificial: like the boundary between male and female, there is so much in-between”

Uli Decker • Director of Anima – My Father's Dresses

The director discusses her documentary, in which she blends elements from the documentary form, animation and fiction  

30/09/2022 | /Germany

Lea Najjar • Director of Kash Kash

“It was necessary to constantly refocus on this microcosm and find a way to express something bigger through it”

Lea Najjar • Director of Kash Kash

The winner of Best Documentary Film at this year’s First Steps Awards talks about her approach to the singular world portrayed in the movie and its protagonists  

29/09/2022 | /Qatar/Lebanon/Germany

Zornitsa Sophia • Director of Mother

“What inspires me is the way they turned their trauma into triumph”

Zornitsa Sophia • Director of Mother

We talked to the Bulgarian director about her new film, the inspiration for her story, gratitude and urging the audience to do good  

29/09/2022 | Golden Rose 2022

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