Interviews

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

8592 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 20/01/2026. 639 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Russell Owen  • Director of Shepherd

"There is no better magician than a good casting director"

Russell Owen • Director of Shepherd

The British director’s take on the same Welsh legend that inspired Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse gives the story a new, unique twist  

21/10/2021 | London 2021

Peter Middleton and James Spinney  • Directors of The Real Charlie Chaplin

“We were making the film during the #MeToo era, and of course, it looms large over everything”

Peter Middleton and James Spinney • Directors of The Real Charlie Chaplin

The directors of the acclaimed Notes on Blindness documentary and VR project talk about their new doc on the iconic British artist  

21/10/2021 | London 2021

Serge Lalou  • Producer of El portero

"I've never been afraid of the future"

Serge Lalou • Producer of El portero

Interview with the producer of Les Films d'Ici Méditerranée who talks about the Aurel project, on the occasion of the Cinemed Meetings, but also about the...  

20/10/2021 | Cinemed 2021 | Cinemed Meetings

Pauline Seigland  • Producer of Les Fantômes

"A spy movie with improvised spies"

Pauline Seigland • Producer of Les Fantômes

Interview with the producer of the French company Films Grand Huit who talks about Jonathan Millet's project, on the occasion of the Cinemed Meetings  

20/10/2021 | Cinemed 2021 | Cinemed Meetings

Nabil Ben Yadir  • Director of Animals

"To tell this radical story, an equally radical form was needed"

Nabil Ben Yadir • Director of Animals

A meeting with the Belgian filmmaker, who delivers with his fourth feature a film that plunges into the heart of the darkness of the human soul by probing a...  

20/10/2021 | Ghent 2021

Marc Irmer  • Producer of Aïcha

“Dolce Vita produces and co-produces films from all over the world”

Marc Irmer • Producer of Aïcha

Cineuropa met with the producer from Dolce Vita Films, who talked about the project by Mehdi M Barsaoui, during the Cinemed Meetings  

19/10/2021 | Cinemed 2021

Michał Krzywicki  • Director of The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash

“Once you decide to make a futuristic film, some familiar elements find their way in without you trying”

Michał Krzywicki • Director of The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash

We talked to the director of the rather ingeniously titled film originally pitched at Vilnius’ Meeting Point and freshly world-premiered at Warsaw  

19/10/2021 | Warsaw 2021

Maxime Roy  • Director of The Heroics

"In the struggle that the character goes through, there is also a lot of humour, life and solidarity"

Maxime Roy • Director of The Heroics

On the eve of its French release, Maxime Roy talks about his very intense first feature film, much appreciated at Cannes, in a special screening of the...  

19/10/2021 | /France

Michael Pearce  • Director of Encounter

“I wanted to explore that coming-of-age moment when you become a peer to your parent”

Michael Pearce • Director of Encounter

We talked to the British director about his film, which stars Riz Ahmed as a father determined to save his two sons from an alien invasion  

18/10/2021 | London 2021

Iñaki Sánchez Arrieta  • Director of El lodo

“This project started with the landscape”

Iñaki Sánchez Arrieta • Director of El lodo

The Spanish filmmaker has opened the 36th Mostra de València – Cinema del Mediterrani with his second film, starring Raúl Arévalo and Paz Vega  

15/10/2021 | Valencia 2021

Christophe Leparc  • Director, Cinemed

"Festivals are an altogether different experience to streaming platforms"

Christophe Leparc • Director, Cinemed

We met with the director of the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival in order to unearth the main aims of his 2021 edition  

15/10/2021 | Cinemed 2021

Michaela Pavlátová  • Director of My Sunny Maad

“Animated characters’ performances can be as powerful as those of live actors”

Michaela Pavlátová • Director of My Sunny Maad

The Czech director explains how important humour and subtlety were in creating this story about a European woman following her true love to Afghanistan  

12/10/2021 | CinÉast 2021

Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez  • Directors of The Passenger

“The fantastical genre allows you to create worlds where you can do whatever you want”

Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez • Directors of The Passenger

We chatted to the duo of filmmakers, who have helmed a terrifying movie that serves as a stark warning against sharing a van with strangers  

11/10/2021 | Sitges 2021

Ernestas Jankauskas, Gabija Siurbytė  • Director of and actress in I Am Fine, Thanks

“Perfectionism is today’s religion”

Ernestas Jankauskas, Gabija Siurbytė • Director of and actress in I Am Fine, Thanks

We talked to some of the team behind the Lithuanian film, which is based on something that the lead actress has experienced herself  

11/10/2021 | Warsaw 2021

Sonia Hausséguy and Irena Gruca-Rozbicka  • Editorial and Development Department, Crew United

“Our main goal is to foster encounters between people who want to make great movies together”

Sonia Hausséguy and Irena Gruca-Rozbicka • Editorial and Development Department, Crew United

Our conversation focused on the platform’s main objectives and its future expansion plans  

07/10/2021 | /France/Poland

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