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 11/07/2025. 654 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Michalis Konstantatos • Director of All The Pretty Little Horses

"The biggest crimes happen in the light of the day"

Michalis Konstantatos • Director of All The Pretty Little Horses

We talked to Greek filmmaker Michalis Konstantatos, who screened his feature All The Pretty Little Horses in Competition for the Heart of Sarajevo  

24/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Competition

Ru Hasanov • Director of The Island Within

"Making this film was a long and intimate process, it reflects my relations to my family and my country"

Ru Hasanov • Director of The Island Within

We have interviewed Azerbaijani director Ru Hasanov, who won the award for Best Director at Sarajevo's Feature Competition for his strangely specific The...  

21/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Competition

Benjamin Ree • Director of The Painter and the Thief

“So many surprises I would never have dreamed of punctuated the creative process”

Benjamin Ree • Director of The Painter and the Thief

Norwegian director Benjamin Ree talks to us about his documentary playing at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, The Painter and the...  

21/08/2020 | Haugesund 2020

Danijela Stajnfeld • Director of Hold Me Right

"Making this film was a healing process in the aftermath of a sexual assault"

Danijela Stajnfeld • Director of Hold Me Right

Serbia's Danijela Stajnfeld talked to us about her deeply personal Hold Me Right, screening as part of the Documentary Competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival  

21/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Documentary Competition

Alexandra Likhacheva and Anna Shalashina  • Director and producer of Kretsul

"You see a person who lives a rich, fulfilling life, and not everyone can boast of such an existence"

Alexandra Likhacheva and Anna Shalashina • Director and producer of Kretsul

Russian writer-director Alexandra Likhacheva and producer Anna Shalashina tell us about Kretsul, winner of the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at...  

20/08/2020 | Transilvania 2020 | TIFF Industry

Ruxandra Ghiţescu • Director of Otto the Barbarian

“Any less-than-perfect reality tends to be marginalised and hidden away”

Ruxandra Ghiţescu • Director of Otto the Barbarian

Romanian director Ruxandra Ghiţescu tells us about her film Otto the Barbarian, centred on a 17-year-old punk whose girlfriend has just committed suicide  

19/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Competition

Djuro Gavran • Director of One of Us

"This film is about social reactions to discovering a case of sexual abuse of children"

Djuro Gavran • Director of One of Us

Croatia's Djuro Gavran talked about his documentary One of Us, which revolves around speaking about a horror with which we are faced but cannot come to...  

19/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Documentary Competition

Maïmouna Doucouré • Director of Cuties

“This isn’t a health & safety ad”

Maïmouna Doucouré • Director of Cuties

French filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré tells us about her feature debut, Cuties, awarded at Sundance and Berlin and acquired by Netflix, now landing in French...  

18/08/2020 | /France

More Raça • Director of Andromeda Galaxy

"This is the struggle for basic existence of a common middle-aged man in Kosovo"

More Raça • Director of Andromeda Galaxy

We have talked to Kosovan director More Raça, who has world-premiered her first feature film Andromeda Galaxy at the Sarajevo Film Festival  

18/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Competition

Ioanna Panagiotidou  • Distributor, Rosebud.21

"It is easier to convince people to go to an open space so Greece has fewer problems"

Ioanna Panagiotidou • Distributor, Rosebud.21

We caught up with Ioanna Panagiotidou, head of distribution at Greek outfit Rosebud.21, to discuss the impact of the COVID pandemic in the territory  

13/08/2020 | /Greece

Simon Ellis  • Director of As Dead as It Gets

“If you have a new idea on set and deviate from the script, the whole house of cards might come tumbling down”

Simon Ellis • Director of As Dead as It Gets

Cineuropa speaks to Simon Ellis, the director of As Dead as It Gets, one of the new interactive movies from Estonian start-up WhatIfI  

07/08/2020 | /UK

Christophe Blanc  • Director of Just Kids

"It's a kind of melodramatic teen movie"

Christophe Blanc • Director of Just Kids

Christophe Blanc tells us about his film Just Kids, centred on siblings in the grips of grief and freedom, released in French cinemas today  

05/08/2020 | /France/Switzerland

Piotr Adamski  • Director of Eastern

“I was curious to see if terms such as ‘honorary code’ or ‘vendetta’ were still important and understandable in our contemporary world”

Piotr Adamski • Director of Eastern

We talked to writer-director Piotr Adamski, whose feature debut, Eastern, has been out in Polish cinemas since 26 June  

04/08/2020 | /Poland

David Ilundain  • Director of One for All

“We, the adults, do not know what really happens inside schools”

David Ilundain • Director of One for All

With his second feature following B, la película, Navarre-born director David Ilundain enters the microcosm of school, with David Verdaguer playing a young...  

31/07/2020 | /Spain

Jean-Charles Hue  • Director of Tijuana Bible

"The true necessity is to show these small miracles of love that can erupt from something terrifying"

Jean-Charles Hue • Director of Tijuana Bible

French director Jean-Charles Hue tells us about the genesis of his new cinematic oddity, the English-language feature Tijuana Bible  

30/07/2020 | /France/Mexico

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