Interviews

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

8726 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 16/03/2026. 636 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Alica Bednáriková • Director of Liquid Bread

“In general, I strongly believe that films should always surprise you”

Alica Bednáriková • Director of Liquid Bread

Cineuropa talks to the Slovak director as she prepares for her film to screen as part of EFP's Future Frames  

04/07/2022 | Future Frames 2022

Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir • Co-founder, IceDocs Iceland Documentary Film Festival

“We try our best to showcase how broad a medium creative documentary can be”

Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir • Co-founder, IceDocs Iceland Documentary Film Festival

The fourth edition of the Akranes-based documentary festival wrapped on 26 June, and we chatted to one of its co-founders about this year's iteration and...  

01/07/2022 | IceDocs 2022

Enric Ribes • Director of Singing on the Rooftops

"I have always been interested in the world of drag"

Enric Ribes • Director of Singing on the Rooftops

In his debut feature, the Catalan director combines fiction and reality to portray Gilda Love, a nonagenarian transvestite, a resident of Barcelona's El...  

01/07/2022 | /Spain

Natja Brunckhorst • Director of Mostly Minimalistic

“I didn't want to do a typical German film; I was looking to make a French film with English humour, as I would put it”

Natja Brunckhorst • Director of Mostly Minimalistic

The directorial debut by the German actress, producer and scriptwriter focuses on objects and how they can make us feel good as well as bad  

01/07/2022 | /Germany

Sophie Mirouze • General Delegate, La Rochelle Film Festival

“The role of festivals is to recreate a desire”

Sophie Mirouze • General Delegate, La Rochelle Film Festival

Bringing audiences back to the cinema, defending diversity through the discovery or rediscovery of films on the big screen: the director of the French...  

01/07/2022 | /France

Cédric Bourgeois • Director of Krump

"I’m happy to have been able to take risks with this film"

Cédric Bourgeois • Director of Krump

The young Belgian filmmaker chatted with us about his first feature film, a hopeless comedy following the tragicomic tribulations of an ex-porn actor  

01/07/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Franziska Stünkel • Director of The Last Execution

“Cinema is a place of collective experience”

Franziska Stünkel • Director of The Last Execution

We talked to the German director, who focuses on a nightmarish relationship between the individual and the communist regime in East Germany in the 1980s  

30/06/2022 | Transilvania 2022

Pierre-Yves Walder • CEO and Artistic Director, NIFFF

"NIFFF has its own all-important legacy which I treasure and respect enormously"

Pierre-Yves Walder • CEO and Artistic Director, NIFFF

Neuchâtel festival’s recently appointed CEO and artistic director speaks to us about the 2022 edition of the event, his passion for fantastic film and the...  

30/06/2022 | NIFFF 2022

Giordano Gederlini • Director of On The Edge

"Just like in tragedies, violence is forced upon my characters"

Giordano Gederlini • Director of On The Edge

We met with the screenwriter and director to talk about his angst-inducing crime film set in a sometimes-ghostly Brussels, which is occasionally haunted by...  

28/06/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Christophe Rolin • Director of Le Voyage de Talia

"I had to deconstruct a lot of things in order to create Le Voyage de Talia"

Christophe Rolin • Director of Le Voyage de Talia

The Belgian director speaks to us about his first fiction feature film, revolving around a young Belgian woman of African descent who dreams of Africa and...  

28/06/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Rosie May Bird Smith • Director of Herd Immunity

“Strangely, people have been asking if Brett Gelman has a twin”

Rosie May Bird Smith • Director of Herd Immunity

We sat down with the winner of the Papaya Young Creators competition, who delivered a compelling two-minute short about a man who falls victim to fake news  

28/06/2022 | /Poland/UK

Florin Piersic Jr • Director of Nothing About Love

“I feel like the director’s mission is to make emotions arise”

Florin Piersic Jr • Director of Nothing About Love

The Romanian filmmaker talks about the lengthy creative process behind his third feature as well as the audience reactions he is hoping for  

28/06/2022 | Transilvania 2022

Gemma Beltrán  • Communication & Press Officer San Sebastian Film Festival

“I think something that we definitely have to keep is meeting the people that we work with, exchanging five emails is not the same as having a full conversation”

Gemma Beltrán • Communication & Press Officer San Sebastian Film Festival

In this interview, Gemma Beltrán, a communication and press officer at the San Sebastian film festival, gives some advice on how to deal with the press  

27/06/2022 | Euro Film Fest

Gloria Zerbinati  • International Publicist

"Being an independent film publicist it's about passion, not about money"

Gloria Zerbinati • International Publicist

In this interview, Gloria Zerbinati, an international publicist, speaks about her love for her work, but also her duties  

27/06/2022 | Euro Film Fest

Caroline Adrian • Producer of L’Enfant mouche

“It’s interesting to revisit history from a less Manichean point of view"

Caroline Adrian • Producer of L’Enfant mouche

The pilot of Delante Productions talks about her editorial line, her latest news and Philippe Pollet-Villard's project that she will pitch in Strasbourg at...  

24/06/2022 | Alentours Forum 2022

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