Interviews

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

8316 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 14/07/2025. 657 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Edgar Wright  • Director of The Sparks Brothers

“Once you are into them, you don't grow out of them”

Edgar Wright • Director of The Sparks Brothers

We chatted to the British director about his feature, which documents the incredible career of Ron and Russell Mael  

03/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | Premieres

Camilla Nielsson  • Director of President

“Democracy is an organism – if we don't nurture it, it will die, and faster than you think”

Camilla Nielsson • Director of President

We talked to acclaimed documentary filmmaker about her Sundance-screened feature, in which she throws people in at the deep end once again  

03/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Ainhoa Rodríguez  • Director of Mighty Flash

“Every people still has its cross to bear”

Ainhoa Rodríguez • Director of Mighty Flash

The Spanish filmmaker is competing for the Tiger Award at Rotterdam with her feature debut, which won prizes at post-production forums and secured the...  

02/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Tiger Competition

York-Fabian Raabe  • Director of Borga

“I try to think from many different perspectives as a director”

York-Fabian Raabe • Director of Borga

We spoke to the German director, who won the Award for Best Feature Film at the Max Ophüls Prize in Saarbrücken with his debut feature  

02/02/2021 | Max Ophüls Prize 2021

Prano Bailey-Bond • Director of Censor

“I’m obsessed with the video-nasty era”

Prano Bailey-Bond • Director of Censor

We caught up with the Welsh director to talk about her atmospheric feature debut, the opening-night film of Sundance’s haunting Midnight section  

01/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | Midnight

Frida Kempff • Director of Knocking

“There are elements here that invite us to delve deep into, and gradually get lost in, the story”

Frida Kempff • Director of Knocking

We chatted to the Swedish director about her feature debut, a tense thriller about mysterious goings-on in an apartment building  

01/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | Midnight

Emanuele Nespeca  • Producer of Glassboy

“Magic is the key word for children, who are the audience of the future”

Emanuele Nespeca • Producer of Glassboy

We chatted with the producer of the children’s film, which triumphed at Tallinn Black Nights FF and is released today on Italian VOD platforms  

01/02/2021 | /Italy/Switzerland/Austria

Ronnie Sandahl • Director of Tigers

“Football is a carnival of toxic masculinity. And in a way, that's fantastic!”

Ronnie Sandahl • Director of Tigers

We talked to the Swedish director about his latest film, now showing in Göteborg’s Nordic Competition  

29/01/2021 | Göteborg 2021

Anna-Karin Grönroos • Director of Future Remains

“This film needed to be something more than just a polished portrait of some genius”

Anna-Karin Grönroos • Director of Future Remains

Cineuropa talked to director to discuss her documentary, which takes a peek into the life of the man behind the book Nordic 2030  

29/01/2021 | DocPoint 2021

Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri • Directors of The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

“That was a big thing for us: who is the boy? Not Tadzio, but Björn?”

Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri • Directors of The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

We found out why the directors of the documentary on Björn Andrésen decided to take a different route to Luchino Visconti  

28/01/2021 | Sundance 2021 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Yavor Petkov • Director of Danny. Legend. God.

“Aren’t we pretending to be someone else, at least sometimes?”

Yavor Petkov • Director of Danny. Legend. God.

We chatted with the Bulgarian director, whose feature debut gets released domestically on Friday  

28/01/2021 | /UK/Bulgaria

Peter Sølvsten Thomsen • Distributor, Angel Films

"This spirit of cooperation is quite a unique feature of our market"

Peter Sølvsten Thomsen • Distributor, Angel Films

We talked to the distributor about film distribution in Denmark and the company's strategy  

28/01/2021 | /Denmark

Lluís Quílez • Director of Below Zero

“I like shoots where there’s lots of complexity and hardship”

Lluís Quílez • Director of Below Zero

The Catalan filmmaker is about to unveil his first Spanish-language feature film, a thriller with an all-male cast set to premiere to an international...  

28/01/2021 | /Spain

Itonje Søimer Guttormsen • Director of Gritt

“I just couldn't grasp the concept that we would come from some man's rib”

Itonje Søimer Guttormsen • Director of Gritt

We chatted to the Norwegian director about her feature debut, which revisits a struggling actress she introduced in her short Retract  

28/01/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Tiger Competition

Miriam Guttmann • Director of Seeds of Deceit

“Jan Karbaat was a man with multiple faces”

Miriam Guttmann • Director of Seeds of Deceit

We talked to the director of the Sundance-screened, three-episode series about the infamous Jan Karbaat case and his many, many descendants  

27/01/2021 | Sundance 2021 | Indie Series

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