Interviews

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

8730 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 17/03/2026. 635 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Marjorie Bendeck • Director, Connecting Cottbus

“That’s what we want to address: how the hell do you fund arthouse films nowadays?”

Marjorie Bendeck • Director, Connecting Cottbus

The head of coco opens up about this year’s edition of the co-production market that focuses primarily on Eastern European cinema  

08/11/2022 | Cottbus 2022 | Connecting Cottbus

Friðrik Þór Friðriksson • Director

"When I start to think of a story, I listen to a lot of music, all kinds of music"

Friðrik Þór Friðriksson • Director

The Nordic Film Days dedicated an homage to the Icelandic director, who has brought international recognition to his national cinema over the years with his...  

07/11/2022 | /Iceland

Nadia Paschetto • Director, Arras Film Festival

"Cinemas aren’t supermarkets where you drop a product into your trolley and head to the checkout"

Nadia Paschetto • Director, Arras Film Festival

We met with the director of the French festival, whose 23rd edition is unspooling 4 – 13 November  

04/11/2022 | Arras 2022

Avelina Prat • Director of Vasil

"People tend to help, but only when it doesn't affect our own comfort"

Avelina Prat • Director of Vasil

We spoke to the Spanish director about her debut film, which has just screened at festivals in Poland and Spain, shortly before its Spanish premiere  

04/11/2022 | /Spain/Bulgaria

Dubravka Turić • Director of Traces

“I chose a small piece from universal reality that I wanted to communicate to the audience. Everything seen and heard in the film comes from that piece”

Dubravka Turić • Director of Traces

The filmmaker's feature-length debut follows an anthropologist obsessively studying an old ritual and its symbols and dealing with her often lonely life  

04/11/2022 | Zagreb 2022

Gilles Sacuto • Producer and President, French Union of Independent Producers

"It’s always wise for the cinema world to worry about its future: that’s how it moves forward"

Gilles Sacuto • Producer and President, French Union of Independent Producers

The president of the French Union of Independent Producers dissected the state of the sector on the occasion of the ARP Film Meetings  

04/11/2022 | ARP Film Meetings 2022

Anaïs Emery • Managing and Artistic Director, GIFF

"I think audiences look for reflections of our society in series"

Anaïs Emery • Managing and Artistic Director, GIFF

We met with the Swiss festival director, who spoke passionately about this event at the forefront of innovation which offers up an inclusive vision of the...  

03/11/2022 | GIFF 2022

David Gruber • Commissioning Editor, Super RTL Fernsehen

“Often times, when younger talents pitch their projects, they fall into a sort of gap between preschool and kids’ audiences”

David Gruber • Commissioning Editor, Super RTL Fernsehen

At Cartoon Springboard, Cineuropa talked to the German executive about the network’s editorial policy and what young talents should focus on when pitching...  

03/11/2022 | Cartoon 2022 | Cartoon Springboard

Angeliki Vergou • Head, Thessaloniki Agora

“We are gearing up to become a more inclusive industry event and we have accepted the sustainability challenge”

Angeliki Vergou • Head, Thessaloniki Agora

Cineuropa had a chance to talk to the new head of the industry section of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival  

03/11/2022 | Thessaloniki 2022 | Agora

Jordi Núñez • Director of What We Know

"I wanted it to be a film to live in”

Jordi Núñez • Director of What We Know

The young filmmaker, who makes his feature debut with a film centred around a group of friends, opened the 37th edition of the festival in his hometown  

02/11/2022 | Valencia 2022

Lukas Dhont • Director of Close

"I wanted to launch myself into film using body language"

Lukas Dhont • Director of Close

We met with the young Flemish director on the occasion of his film’s release in France and Belgium, having previously scooped the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes  

31/10/2022 | /Belgium/France/Netherlands

Cristian Jezdic • CEO, beQ Entertainment, and Vice-President, Cartoon Italia

“For animation producers such as ourselves, scouting for new talent is essential”

Cristian Jezdic • CEO, beQ Entertainment, and Vice-President, Cartoon Italia

The producer spoke to us, at this year’s Cartoon Springboard, about young talent in animation and the state of the sector in Italy  

31/10/2022 | Cartoon 2022 | Cartoon Springboard

Estefanía Cortés • Director of Edén

"I don't feel uncomfortable talking about death"

Estefanía Cortés • Director of Edén

We talk with the filmmaker, who has cast Marta Nieto in her first feature film, in which she tackles issues such as freedom, the end of life and the...  

28/10/2022 | Seminci 2022

Elissa Federoff • Head of distribution, NEON

“We focus on films that have a really relevant point of view and that are culturally exciting for the moment”

Elissa Federoff • Head of distribution, NEON

We discussed US-based NEON’s business model, and the company’s strategies for handling European and foreign films  

28/10/2022 | International Distribution Summit 2022

André Szardenings • Director of Bulldog

“I didn't want to make a film in which queerness was a problem”

André Szardenings • Director of Bulldog

We talked about the German director’s first feature, in which he tells the story of a particularly intimate relationship between a mother and son  

28/10/2022 | /Germany/Spain

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