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.

 
Jaime Rosales • Director of Wild Flowers

"There is something so attractive about meeting someone who is untamed"

Jaime Rosales • Director of Wild Flowers

The Catalan filmmaker competes for the Golden Shell with his seventh feature film, a three-part chronicle of the sentimental experience of a young single mother  

21/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | Competition

Christophe Honoré • Director of Winter Boy

"I wanted to focus on emotions, on feelings"

Christophe Honoré • Director of Winter Boy

The French filmmaker is returning with a poignant and highly accomplished work, formally speaking, with deeply personal roots and revolving around a...  

21/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | Competition

Carlota Pereda • Director of Piggy

“I wish to condemn normalised and institutionalised violence”

Carlota Pereda • Director of Piggy

After premiering at Sundance, and prior to its screening at Sitges, the filmmaker’s brutal and bloody feature debut gets a berth in San Sebastián’s most...  

21/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

Pilar Palomero • Director of La maternal

“It’s painful to see such a young girl experiencing something which isn’t suited to her age”

Pilar Palomero • Director of La maternal

The Spanish director presents her second film after the award-winning work Schoolgirls, this time revolving around the issue of teenage pregnancies  

20/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | Competition

David Preute • Director of Rogue Trader

"We shot in English for marketing reasons, but also because it makes sense in terms of content"

David Preute • Director of Rogue Trader

The German director talks to us about his first feature film, which he dedicated to the world of finance  

20/09/2022 | /Germany

Luis De Filippis • Director of Something You Said Last Night

“To me, this is the power of cinema – to transmute another’s experiences and see yourself in their struggles and victories”

Luis De Filippis • Director of Something You Said Last Night

The Canadian-Italian filmmaker spoke to us about her fight for a more inclusive world and the potential ability of cinema to change social stereotypes  

20/09/2022 | Toronto 2022 | Discovery

Petr Vaclav • Director of Il Boemo

“This Icarian story of a rise and fall excited me”

Petr Vaclav • Director of Il Boemo

Cineuropa talked to the Czech director about his biggest film to date and about the origins of this period drama that resurrects music that has not been...  

19/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | Competition

Basil Khalil • Director of A Gaza Weekend

“I think with comedy, you can reach people who wouldn't otherwise want to hear stories from a place with such tough issues”

Basil Khalil • Director of A Gaza Weekend

In his first feature, the London-based Palestinian director parodies the situation in Gaza by crafting a satirical and irreverent comedy  

19/09/2022 | Toronto 2022 | Discovery

Carlos Vermut • Director of Manticore

"Making films about monstrous characters is rather appealing"

Carlos Vermut • Director of Manticore

With his fourth feature film, the director goes even further in unsettling audiences, demonstrating that his is not an accommodating career or one for all...  

16/09/2022 | Toronto 2022 | Contemporary World Cinema

Juan Diego Botto • Director of On the Fringe

“Your primary obligation when making cinema is not to be boring”

Juan Diego Botto • Director of On the Fringe

The actor makes his feature-length directorial debut with a social drama starring Penélope Cruz, which premiered at Venice and is now stopping over in San...  

16/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | Perlak

Cesc Gay • Director of Stories Not to Be Told

“I felt as if I had this big orchestra of musicians, and I had to be the conductor”

Cesc Gay • Director of Stories Not to Be Told

In his new comedy, the Spanish director uses an episodic structure to tell several unusual love stories  

16/09/2022 | Toronto 2022 | Special Presentations

Damian Kocur • Director of Bread and Salt

“Cinema for me is not recounting events or telling a story; it happens on an emotional level”

Damian Kocur • Director of Bread and Salt

VENICE 2022: Cineuropa chatted with the Polish director, whose stellar debut feature explores what violence is and what it means to participate in it  

14/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Guy Davidi • Director of Innocence

“Being a child growing up in Israel is a journey”

Guy Davidi • Director of Innocence

VENICE 2022: The director talks to us about his poetic and powerful documentary, about young Israelis who died during compulsory military service  

14/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Laura Citarella • Director of Trenque Lauquen

“I think that maybe there is not just one reference I used; there is a whole map of books”

Laura Citarella • Director of Trenque Lauquen

VENICE 2022: We spoke to the rising Argentinian filmmaker about her new four-hour-and-ten-minute work, which follows an amateur sleuth’s investigation into...  

14/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji • Director of Hanging Gardens

“I think the new generation will accept this film; the radicals will be upset”

Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji • Director of Hanging Gardens

VENICE 2022: Inspired by De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, the Iraqi director takes a look at his “unbalanced” home country  

14/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti Extra

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