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 13/09/2025. 651 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Marí Alessandrini • Director of Zahorí

“The steppe is right on our doorstep but it’s as if it creates some sort of abyss”

Marí Alessandrini • Director of Zahorí

The Argentine director and HEAD graduate speaks to us about her first feature film, which was shot in the Argentine desert and revolves around an...  

12/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Chema García Ibarra • Director of The Sacred Spirit

“I like to shoot in places where nobody has taken a camera before”

Chema García Ibarra • Director of The Sacred Spirit

The award-winning short filmmaker presents his long-awaited feature debut, shot with non-professional actors in his hometown of Elche, which is dripping...  

11/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Charlotte Colbert • Director of She Will

“There is this kind of reappropriation of the symbols and the imagery surrounding the things that have, in the past, stigmatised the personal lives of women”

Charlotte Colbert • Director of She Will

Cineuropa caught up with the director at the Locarno Film Festival, where her debut film, a genre-bending gothic horror, had its world premiere  

11/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Out of Competition

Hleb Papou • Director of The Legionnaire

"The objective was to show our point of view on modern Italy"

Hleb Papou • Director of The Legionnaire

The director's first feature is a social drama about two brothers fighting on opposite sides  

10/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Rasmus Merivoo • Director of Kratt

“In some ways, my film is like a nature documentary: you show how little people live, how the world affects them and how they affect the world”

Rasmus Merivoo • Director of Kratt

We talked to the Estonian director about his film, which is really for the whole family, even though parents might need to answer some questions after the...  

10/08/2021 | Fantasia 2021

Araceli Lemos • Director of Holy Emy

“We wanted it to be as true to the realities of the Filipino community as possible”

Araceli Lemos • Director of Holy Emy

The Greek director tells the intimate story of two Filipino sisters in Greece who have to protect their bond against the outside world  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Axelle Ropert • Director of Petite Solange

“In my opinion, emotions are transmitted through simplicity”

Axelle Ropert • Director of Petite Solange

A charismatic, young actress stars in the French director’s new film, dealing with divorce shown from the perspective of a child  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Sabrina Sarabi • Director of No One's with the Calves

“I wanted to use the handheld camera to be closer to the protagonists and to be able to react spontaneously to the acting”

Sabrina Sarabi • Director of No One's with the Calves

In her Cineasti del Presente title, the German director follows a young woman on her way to emancipation  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Neus Ballús • Director of The Odd-Job Men

“I think the experiences we all have behind us are fascinating”

Neus Ballús • Director of The Odd-Job Men

The Catalonian filmmaker talks to us about her third feature, another fiction-documentary hybrid that is toplined by non-professional actors  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Lorenz Merz • Director of Soul of a Beast

“My movies don’t just function on an intellectual level”

Lorenz Merz • Director of Soul of a Beast

The young Swiss director talks to us about his second feature, which is competing in the Locarno Film Festival’s International Competition  

06/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Stefan Ruzowitzky • Director of Hinterland

“My protagonist feels the world is twisted and distorted; German Expressionists wanted to communicate the same thing”

Stefan Ruzowitzky • Director of Hinterland

Selected for the Piazza Grande section of Locarno, the Austrian helmer’s new film shows the landscape after World War I  

06/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Piazza Grande

Srđan Dragojević • Director of Heavens Above

“I am very proud that all six republics of the former Yugoslavia are involved in the production"

Srđan Dragojević • Director of Heavens Above

With his new film, the Serbian director presents a satire on religion mirroring the essential social themes of the Balkan countries  

06/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Stefan Jäger • Director of Monte Verità

“It’s funny that we in Switzerland created the first hippie commune”

Stefan Jäger • Director of Monte Verità

The Swiss director invites everyone to revisit “The Mountain of Truth”, a utopian colony that welcomed all of the unconventional thinkers  

05/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Piazza Grande

Ferdinando Cito Filomarino • Director of Beckett

"I wanted to explore this genre, the manhunt-thriller"

Ferdinando Cito Filomarino • Director of Beckett

The director tells Cineuropa about the European background of his second feature and why he chose Greece as a location  

05/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Piazza Grande

Nathalie Coste Cerdan • General director, La Fémis

“Students attending our school can benefit from strong links with the French and international film industry”

Nathalie Coste Cerdan • General director, La Fémis

Our conversation revolved around the main opportunities offered to prospective students by the prestigious French film school  

05/08/2021 | /France

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