Interviews

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

8313 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 12/07/2025. 654 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Pnina Halfon Lang • Executive director, CoPro, and head, DocuShuk

“The Israeli documentary scene offers a huge variety of stories told by local filmmakers”

Pnina Halfon Lang • Executive director, CoPro, and head, DocuShuk

We talked to Pnina Halfon Lang, executive director of CoPro and head of DocuShuk, to discover how the innovative Israeli digital platform works and what the...  

10/12/2020 | /Israel

Bérangère Mc Neese • Director of Matriochkas

“Being a tributary of other people’s gaze and desire is a very difficult thing. I also wanted to push myself”

Bérangère Mc Neese • Director of Matriochkas

Cineuropa chats with the young Belgian actress and filmmaker Bérangère Mc Neese, the director of the short work Matriochkas which has been pre-selected for...  

09/12/2020 | /Belgium

Jakub Mróz • Distributor, Tongariro Releasing

“We wanted to use popular culture and cinema to bring about some positive changes in society”

Jakub Mróz • Distributor, Tongariro Releasing

We caught up with Jakub Mróz, president of Poland’s Tongariro Releasing, an independent distribution company specialising in LGBT films  

08/12/2020 | /Poland

Colin Broderick • Director of A Bend in the River

“The main challenge was creating a visually compelling narrative to represent Matt Donnelly’s inner life”

Colin Broderick • Director of A Bend in the River

We interviewed Ireland’s Colin Broderick, who talked to us about the making of his sophomore feature, A Bend in the River  

08/12/2020 | /Ireland

Zhu Dan • Producer, Shanghai Film Group

“The biggest challenge was to enable the Western audience to understand the story”

Zhu Dan • Producer, Shanghai Film Group

At its sixth Sino-European Project Lab, Bridging the Dragon met up with Zhu Dan, producer at Shanghai Film Group, one of the largest film groups in China  

07/12/2020 | Bridging the Dragon 2020

Emmanuelle Nicot, Julie Esparbes and Delphine Schmit • Director and producers of Dalva

“The MIA Market gave us both the confidence and the energy to follow through with the next steps”

Emmanuelle Nicot, Julie Esparbes and Delphine Schmit • Director and producers of Dalva

The winners of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at the MIA Market, Emmanuelle Nicot, Julie Esparbes and Delphine Schmit, discuss their winning...  

04/12/2020 | MIA 2020

Richard Mowe • Distributor, CinéFile

"The more interest there is in cinema in general across the board, the better for everyone in the industry"

Richard Mowe • Distributor, CinéFile

Richard Mowe, co-director of CinéFile, tells us about the company’s strategy and its response to the challenges of the pandemic  

03/12/2020 | /UK

Kathrin Kohlstedde • Head of Programme, Filmfest Hamburg

“Though there are many differences between them, the students find out they also have a lot in common, and the films help them to discover and articulate that”

Kathrin Kohlstedde • Head of Programme, Filmfest Hamburg

Filmfest Hamburg head Kathrin Kohlstedde tells us about the European University Film Award, the 2020 winner of which will be announced on 10 December  

03/12/2020 | European Film Awards 2020

Maia Martiniak • Director of Unseen

“I cannot tolerate violence against women in any form”

Maia Martiniak • Director of Unseen

Cineuropa talks to Slovakian director Maia Martiniak, whose latest, award-winning work, Unseen, looks at different forms of violence against women during...  

02/12/2020 | /Slovakia

Florian Zeller • Director of The Father

"Anthony Hopkins is the greatest actor alive today"

Florian Zeller • Director of The Father

The author of the most widely performed French plays in the world, Florian Zeller chats to us about his directorial debut The Father, brilliantly acted by...  

02/12/2020 | Cairo 2020

MML Collective • Directors of Tracking Satyrs

“An atypical film such as ours, questioning freedom and played by social outcasts, does not really fit the profile of industry cinema”

MML Collective • Directors of Tracking Satyrs

The winners of the Eurimages Lab Project Award at Thessaloniki, MML Collective - Michał Mądracki, Maciej Mądracki and Gilles Lepore - discuss their winning...  

01/12/2020 | Thessaloniki 2020 | Agora

Renzo Martens • Director of White Cube

“My goal was not to paint another portrait of how things can not work, but how, despite everything, they possibly can”

Renzo Martens • Director of White Cube

We talked to Dutch artist and director Renzo Martens about his film White Cube, which premiered at IDFA  

01/12/2020 | IDFA 2020

João Paulo Abreu • Distributor, Films4You

“The film business is a people’s business”

João Paulo Abreu • Distributor, Films4You

João Paulo Abreu, managing director of Films4You, tells us about current tendencies in the field of independent distribution in Portugal and the impact of...  

01/12/2020 | /Portugal

Zeynep Dadak • Director of Electric Sleep

“People are more interested in hybrid genre films than ever before”

Zeynep Dadak • Director of Electric Sleep

We talked to Zeynep Dadak, the winner of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award for Best Project at Tallinn Black Nights, ready to take a closer look...  

01/12/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Viestur Kairish  • Director of The Sign Painter

"How can you survive as a human and not sell your soul"

Viestur Kairish • Director of The Sign Painter

We met up with Latvian director Viestur Kairish to discuss his latest film The Sign Painter, which screened in Competition at Tallinn's Black Nights Film...  

01/12/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition

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