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.

 
Tea Lindeburg  • Director of As In Heaven

"There are still 300,000 women a year who die in childbirth"

Tea Lindeburg • Director of As In Heaven

The Danish director's feature debut centres on a teenage girl in the late 1800s who sees her dream of getting an education threatened when her mother goes...  

24/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Paco Plaza  • Director of The Grandmother

“Any director would aspire to wanting someone to walk out of their film at the movie theatre”

Paco Plaza • Director of The Grandmother

Horror comes pounding on the doors of San Sebastián with brute force in this film by the Spanish director, which was penned by Carlos Vermut, the winner of...  

24/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Claudia Llosa • Director of Fever Dream

“I hadn’t even reached the last page of the book and I was already saying to myself, “I have to meet this woman; I have to make this film”

Claudia Llosa • Director of Fever Dream

For the first time the Peruvian film maker has used someone else’s material for one of her projects, and she talked to us about it and plenty more  

24/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Katayoun Dibamehr and Avi Amar  • Producers, Floréal Films

"There are partners now in the virtual reality microcosm"

Katayoun Dibamehr and Avi Amar • Producers, Floréal Films

Having triumphed two years in a row in Venice by way of their virtual reality works, the heads of Paris-based firm talk to us about trends and the sector’s...  

23/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Venice VR

Jonás Trueba • Director of Who’s Stopping Us

“It’s an entirely unpremeditated, intuitive piece of filmmaking”

Jonás Trueba • Director of Who’s Stopping Us

The Spanish filmmaker vies for the Golden Shell with this genre-defying feature, coaxed into life over the course of five years with the generous...  

23/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Rasmus Dinesen  • Director of Michelin Stars II – Nordic by Nature

“For me, it just seems natural to make documentaries about something I like”

Rasmus Dinesen • Director of Michelin Stars II – Nordic by Nature

Koks, one of the most remote Michelin-starred restaurants in the world, is the protagonist of the Danish helmer’s new documentary  

23/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Culinary Zinema

Manu Gómez  • Director of Once Upon a Time in Euskadi

“I don’t agree with Hitchcock”

Manu Gómez • Director of Once Upon a Time in Euskadi

The Basque filmmaker makes his debut with a feature film set in the tumultuous decade of the 80s, seen through the eyes of the child that he was back then  

23/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | RTVE Galas

Claire Simon • Director of I Want to Talk About Duras

“For women, who have been oppressed for centuries, it’s very difficult to speak out about their oppression”

Claire Simon • Director of I Want to Talk About Duras

Cineuropa talks with the French director about the nature of love, society’s obssesion with fame, and the limits between fiction and documentary  

22/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Lucía de la Torre • Festival programmer, Calvert Journal Film Festival

“Our main goal is to give a platform to independent filmmakers from Eastern Europe and Central Asia”

Lucía de la Torre • Festival programmer, Calvert Journal Film Festival

We took the opportunity to speak to the programmer of the Calvert Journal Film Festival about this year’s line-up, the gathering's side initiatives and its...  

22/09/2021 | /UK

Alina Grigore • Director of Blue Moon

"I was the only girl in my village who was able to pursue further education"

Alina Grigore • Director of Blue Moon

The writer-director chatted with Cineuropa about dysfunctional families, going back to her village with an education, and the difference between a...  

22/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Lucile Hadzihalilovic • Director of Earwig

“This film is in the head of a man who is lost”

Lucile Hadzihalilovic • Director of Earwig

The third feature by the French director is her first in English; its European premiere is taking place in competition at San Sebastián, where Cineuropa...  

22/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Paweł Łoziński  • Director of The Balcony Movie

“I wanted to check if I could reverse the roles and not be someone who chases people with a camera, but instead wait for them to come to me”

Paweł Łoziński • Director of The Balcony Movie

Cineuropa sat down with the established Polish director to discuss his latest oeuvre, which was awarded in Locarno’s Semaine de la Critique and was...  

22/09/2021 | Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2021

Aga Woszczyńska  • Director of Silent Land

“Nobody in this film is either just good or just bad; there are a lot of nuances within the personality of each character”

Aga Woszczyńska • Director of Silent Land

We talked to the Polish director to get the low-down on her film, which is ostensibly about the collapse of a relationship but actually tackles something...  

22/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Platform

Darko Sinko  • Director of Inventory

“It is already a statement if you take a different approach in storytelling or formal aesthetics compared to how it’s done in Slovenian film tradition”

Darko Sinko • Director of Inventory

The tragicomedy by the Slovenian director premieres in New Directors and looks into what happens if you begin to mistrust everyone who surrounds you  

21/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | New Directors

Ana Lazarevic  • Director of The Game

“I felt a huge sense of responsibility and wanted to be as prepared as I could be”

Ana Lazarevic • Director of The Game

The Serbian director talks about what inspired her to create her first feature, an intimate story about a smuggler and a group of boys he is supposed to...  

20/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Discovery

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