Interviews

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

8636 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 11/02/2026. 631 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Icíar Bollaín • Director of Maixabel

"In the Basque Country, they still have a complex task ahead of them – that of learning to live together"

Icíar Bollaín • Director of Maixabel

In her new movie – and with the complete dedication of her accomplice Blanca Portillo – the Madrilenian filmmaker reconstructs a recent real-life event...  

17/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Butheina Kazim • Founder, Cinema Akil

“It’s been challenging since Day 1”

Butheina Kazim • Founder, Cinema Akil

We spoke about the programming strategies of the only independent arthouse cinema in the Gulf region, focusing on its curatorial approach to European films...  

16/09/2021 | /United Arab Emirates

Peggy Johnson  • Executive Director, The Loft Cinema

“We have open doors to any films and no limitations”

Peggy Johnson  • Executive Director, The Loft Cinema

The Executive Director of the Arizona-based theatre discussed its main initiatives, the reception of classics and new titles by the audience, and...  

16/09/2021 | /US

Sinje Köhler  • Director of Viva Forever

“Real friendships have a solid base that won't alter with age, something that stays forever”

Sinje Köhler  • Director of Viva Forever

The German director’s debut explores the dynamics behind long-lasting friendships  

16/09/2021 | /Germany

Francesco Lettieri • Director of Lovely Boy

"Trap music was a good starting point to portray all the absurdity, contradictions and nihilism of these modern times"

Francesco Lettieri • Director of Lovely Boy

VENICE 2021: The sophomore film by the Italian director tells of the dizzying rise and fall of a young trap music star who got sucked into a downward spiral...  

16/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Antoinette Boulat • Director of My Night

“I never thought of casting as an endgame”

Antoinette Boulat • Director of My Night

VENICE 2021: The French casting director tells us about fulfilling a lifelong dream by calling the shots on a film set, and how grief, desire and spending a...  

16/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti Extra

Laurent Cantet  • Director of Arthur Rambo

"I didn’t want the film to be a trial, but everyone has their own inner convictions"

Laurent Cantet  • Director of Arthur Rambo

The French filmmaker explores the violent era of social media through the story of a young and popular novelist who suffers a vertiginous fall from grace  

15/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Platform

Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Inexorable

"I tried not to play the artist too much with this film, in order to construct a thriller, pure and simple"

Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Inexorable

The Belgian director spoke to us about this new film which is very much in keeping with his previous work, but which also breathes fresh air into his cinema...  

15/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Special Presentations

Csilla Kató • Artistic director, Astra Film Festival

“Documentary is cinema’s most democratic genre”

Csilla Kató • Artistic director, Astra Film Festival

The festival is currently unfolding online until Sunday, following a physical edition held between 5-12 September, whose strengths and challenges we...  

15/09/2021 | Astra 2021

Roberto Andò • Director of The Hidden Child

“For children, violence is an existential means of saying ‘I’m here’”

Roberto Andò • Director of The Hidden Child

VENICE 2021: We chatted with the director about his latest film, which closed the Venice Film Festival  

15/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Out of Competition

Bouli Lanners • Director of Nobody Has to Know

“I told myself that at 54, I could finally tell a love story”

Bouli Lanners • Director of Nobody Has to Know

Cineuropa met with the Belgian filmmaker who is presenting his latest film, a real departure from his previous work since it is a love story and in English  

14/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Contemporary World Cinema

Keti Stamo • Director of Sons of Cain

"Dreams were the perfect antidote to whisk these children away to a different reality"

Keti Stamo • Director of Sons of Cain

VENICE 2021: The director has crafted a dreamlike documentary that calls into question the strict nature of the Kanun, the ancient Albanian code which...  

14/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Yvan Attal • Director of The Accusation

“Today, when you make a movie like this, you have to say clearly… certain things”

Yvan Attal • Director of The Accusation

VENICE 2021: The French director faced several challenges while adapting Karine Tuil’s rape-case novel Les choses humaines, including a delicate...  

14/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Out of Competition

Ciro De Caro • Director of Giulia

"I love unusual, complex characters who are on the fringes, and I recognise myself in their madness"

Ciro De Caro • Director of Giulia

VENICE 2021: The Italian director is presenting his new film, which centres on a young woman who, one scorching summer in Rome, searches for her place in...  

14/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Alessandro Gassmann • Director of The Great Silence

"It's a story of things unsaid, and silences work much better in cinema than they do in theatre"

Alessandro Gassmann • Director of The Great Silence

VENICE 2021: The Italian actor-director brings Maurizio De Giovanni's stage play of the same name to the big screen, in which a once well-off family is...  

14/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

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