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.

 
Fariborz Kamkari • Director of Kurdbûn - Essere curdo

“How each of us reacts to the existence of a dictatorial system makes all the difference”

Fariborz Kamkari • Director of Kurdbûn - Essere curdo

Cineuropa spent some time with the Kurdish director who chatted with us about his documentary exploring the siege of Cizre in 2016  

28/07/2022 | /Italy

Yuan Rothbauer and Andreas Rothbauer • Sales agents, Picture Tree International

“We are very confident about our business model in this fast-changing industry”

Yuan Rothbauer and Andreas Rothbauer • Sales agents, Picture Tree International

We take a closer look at the work carried out by the Berlin-based sales agency and its editorial strategy  

26/07/2022 | /Germany

Sabine Chemaly • EVP of International Distribution, Newen Connect - TF1 Studio

"When the sales business started about 30 years ago, it was very much about French companies dealing with French titles"

Sabine Chemaly • EVP of International Distribution, Newen Connect - TF1 Studio

We take a closer look at the market strategies carried out by the sales division of the French giant  

25/07/2022 | /France/Europe

Sabine Gebetsroither  • Festival Director Crossing Europe Linz

"Crossing Europe has a important role for the distribution of European films in Austria, as well as the platform for lokal filmmakers to meet European film industry"

Sabine Gebetsroither • Festival Director Crossing Europe Linz

In this interview, Sabine Gebetsroither, director of the Austrian festival Crossing Europe, gives advice on attracting and choosing the right sponsors for a...  

25/07/2022 | Euro Film Fest

Inna Sahakyan • Director of Aurora’s Sunrise

“Aurora just refused to be reduced to a victim or to an object of history”

Inna Sahakyan • Director of Aurora’s Sunrise

The Armenian documentary filmmaker reveals key details around the artistic decisions made throughout the working process of her first animated film  

21/07/2022 | Golden Apricot 2022

Raúl Cerezo, Fernando González Gómez, Javier Trigales and Rubén Sánchez Trigos • Directors and writers of The Elderly

“We liked the theme of older people rebelling against the society that is putting them down”

Raúl Cerezo, Fernando González Gómez, Javier Trigales and Rubén Sánchez Trigos • Directors and writers of The Elderly

The directors and the writers of this twisted new feature, in which older people are done being ignored, talk about it  

20/07/2022 | Fantasia 2022

Pierre Salvadori • Director of The Little Gang

"I could make an adventure comedy whose secret screenplay would be full of possibilities"

Pierre Salvadori • Director of The Little Gang

The French filmmaker explains his new arthouse comedy, where desires for friendship and togetherness in the twilight years of childhood overlap with the...  

20/07/2022 | France

Mariam Khatchvani • Founder and artistic director, Svaneti International Film Festival

“When I am in Svaneti, I always come up with good ideas”

Mariam Khatchvani • Founder and artistic director, Svaneti International Film Festival

The filmmaker talks to us about the future of the festival she created  

18/07/2022 | /Georgia

Gabriel Achim • Director of Snowing Darkness

"As a child, I daydreamed about killing Nicolae Ceauşescu"

Gabriel Achim • Director of Snowing Darkness

The Romanian director discusses the premises of probably his most personal and cryptic film to date  

18/07/2022 | /Romania

Nikolaj Nikitin • Programmer of the Main Competition, Palić European Film Festival

“Art is the only salvation in times of war and crisis”

Nikolaj Nikitin • Programmer of the Main Competition, Palić European Film Festival

The new programmer of the Main Competition of the Palić European Film Festival shares some of his thoughts on the 29th edition, which kicked off this weekend  

18/07/2022 | Palić 2022

Markus Duffner • Head, Locarno Pro

“This year, we expect mass participation, even higher than pre-pandemic levels”

Markus Duffner • Head, Locarno Pro

Three weeks before the beginning of the event, the head of Locarno Pro told us about the new industry initiatives being planned by the prestigious Swiss...  

15/07/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Locarno Pro

Mladen Kovačević • Director of Another Spring

“It's an intimate reminiscence, especially from the perspective of this new pandemic, about events from the early 1970s”

Mladen Kovačević • Director of Another Spring

We delve into how COVID-19 inspired the documentary director to make a film about the 1972 smallpox epidemic in Yugoslavia  

15/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Anika Decker • Director of Love Thing

“Without culture, a country is worth nothing”

Anika Decker • Director of Love Thing

The German director tells us more about her film, in which Elyas M'Barek plays a successful actor who has a secret from his past that threatens his career  

15/07/2022 | /Germany

Adam Sedlák • Director of BANGER.

"My film is not an anti-drugs movie; I’m trying to be more progressive and show that the manipulation and mixing of different drugs is dangerous"

Adam Sedlák • Director of BANGER.

We had a chat with the director, whose feature BANGER., filmed entirely on an iPhone, follows the odyssey of a young drug dealer and aspiring musician...  

14/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Roua Almadani and Chadi Zeneddine • CEO and director of Project Development and International Relations, Arabia Pictures Group

“Saudis are eager to experiment and to share their stories with the world”

Roua Almadani and Chadi Zeneddine • CEO and director of Project Development and International Relations, Arabia Pictures Group

With the support of Cineuropa, the European Union Delegation in Saudi Arabia organised the first European film festival ever held in the country  

14/07/2022 | /Saudi Arabia/Europe

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