Interviews

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

8439 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 12/09/2025. 651 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Carlos Muguiro • Director, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola

“Here, we build a community of filmmakers that goes way beyond studies”

Carlos Muguiro • Director, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola

To mark the start of the application period to be part of the educational institution’s fifth intake, its head honcho breaks down some of the details  

01/02/2022 | /Spain

Marianne Blicher • Director of Miss Viborg

"I wanted to make the film look like a fairy-tale in the ghetto, with a lot of colours and depth, symbolising hope"

Marianne Blicher • Director of Miss Viborg

The Danish director tells a story set in a social housing area of her country, and she discusses the characters of her story, her choice of actors and the...  

01/02/2022 | Göteborg 2022

Alberto De Michele • Director of The Last Ride of the Wolves

"With my work, I always try to show things as pure and clean as possible"

Alberto De Michele • Director of The Last Ride of the Wolves

Presenting his debut film at IFFR, the director talks about finding his own film language, his relationship with his father and demystifying a popular movie...  

01/02/2022 | IFFR 2022 | Bright Future

Marten Persiel  • Director of Everything Will Change

“I wanted the film to be a celebration of both nature and nature filmmaking”

Marten Persiel • Director of Everything Will Change

This docu-fiction is a painful but intriguing roller coaster through what the Earth might look like in a few generations’ time  

01/02/2022 | Max Ophüls Prize 2022

Alli Haapasalo  • Director of Girl Picture

"It was very important for me to talk about girlhood in a way that would be a fresher take on the films about young adults I saw as a teenager"

Alli Haapasalo • Director of Girl Picture

A mature and emancipated depiction of girlhood is at the centre of this visually appealing Finnish coming-of-age film  

31/01/2022 | Sundance 2022 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Matteo Frittelli  • Producer of Il Giardino che non c’è

“We wanted a film that projected the past onto the present”

Matteo Frittelli • Producer of Il Giardino che non c’è

The producer of the company Alto Piano talks about the importance of memory as a renewal, and about the distribution of art documentaries  

28/01/2022 | /Italy/France

Manuel Arija  • Director of Ultrainnocence

“I liked the fact that it recalls a 1970s aesthetic”

Manuel Arija • Director of Ultrainnocence

We talked to the director about his cinematic quest for a divine presence, which is set to premiere at this year's Slamdance  

28/01/2022 | Slamdance 2022

Yllka Gashi  • Actress in Hive

Hive made me a better person”

Yllka Gashi • Actress in Hive

Cineuropa's editor-in-chief, Domenico La Porta, had a chat with lead actress Yllka Gashi about the impact of the film and what an Academy Award nomination...  

28/01/2022 | Oscars 2022

Adrián Silvestre • Director of My Emptiness and I

“People today are treated like commodities on the market”

Adrián Silvestre • Director of My Emptiness and I

Following his second feature, Sediments, the Spanish filmmaker continues to explore the conflicts of trans identity in his new film  

27/01/2022 | IFFR 2022 | Big Screen Competition

Hanna Bergholm • Director of Hatching

“I wanted people to start liking this creature”

Hanna Bergholm • Director of Hatching

In her new work, the Finnish director addresses every girl’s biggest fears – and a weird creature hiding in the closet is not the worst of them  

26/01/2022 | Sundance 2022 | Midnight

Morgane Dziurla-Petit • Director of Excess Will Save Us

“My aim while shooting was to open up to things that would happen around us”

Morgane Dziurla-Petit • Director of Excess Will Save Us

The French director offers an unusual insight into the daily life of a small village in Northern France and, more specifically, that of an extraordinary family  

26/01/2022 | IFFR 2022 | Tiger Competition

László Csuja and Anna Nemes • Directors of Gentle

“We were inspired by the world of bodybuilding, a lot of which is about control”

László Csuja and Anna Nemes • Directors of Gentle

The Hungarian filmmakers’ drama about a couple of bodybuilders is an intimate portrait that truly lives up to its title  

25/01/2022 | Sundance 2022 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Christian Tafdrup • Director of Speak No Evil

“The ambition was to make the most disturbing film in Danish history”

Christian Tafdrup • Director of Speak No Evil

In the Danish director’s new film, there is such a thing as being too polite for your own good  

25/01/2022 | Sundance 2022 | Midnight

Anders Emblem • Director of A Human Position

“In so many relationships that I see, people are just so nice”

Anders Emblem • Director of A Human Position

The director talks about his second film, a character portrait starring Amalie Ibsen Jensen as a local news journalist who is struggling with her mental health  

21/01/2022 | Tromsø 2022

Víctor Matellano  • Director of Mi adorado Monster

“I am transposing the games of my childhood to the big screen”

Víctor Matellano • Director of Mi adorado Monster

Surrounded by books and DVDs, we chatted with this lover of the Spanish fantaterror genre, who is releasing a documentary that portrays a filmmaker who took...  

21/01/2022 | /Spain

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