Interviews

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

8443 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 19/09/2025. 644 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Kamir Aïnouz • Director of Honey Cigar

"A story of a young woman's body torn between two cultures"

Kamir Aïnouz • Director of Honey Cigar

VENICE 2020: French-Algerian director Kamir Aïnouz talked to us about her feature debut, Honey Cigar, which opened the 17th Giornate degli Autori  

05/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Elisa Fuksas • Director of ISola

"Telling a story helps you to forget that it is actually your story"

Elisa Fuksas • Director of ISola

VENICE 2020: Elisa Fuksas talks to us about her documentary iSola, made during the lockdown and filmed entirely on a mobile phone, now selected for the...  

05/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Antonio Pisu • Director of Est

"The journey is the only thing that allows us to empathise and to have a different opinion"

Antonio Pisu • Director of Est

VENICE 2020: Antonio Pisu talks about his spirited and meaningful road movie Est, which opens the Venetian Nights of the 17th Giornate degli Autori  

04/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Daniele Luchetti • Director of The Ties

“If your parents are wrong, it doesn’t mean you will be right”

Daniele Luchetti • Director of The Ties

VENICE 2020: We talked to Daniele Luchetti, the director of this year’s opening film, The Ties, the first Italian title to kick-start Venice in 11 years  

04/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

Nicole Garcia • Director of Lovers

“I have a sort of faith in the glittering darkness of love”

Nicole Garcia • Director of Lovers

VENICE 2020: French director Nicole Garcia decrypts Lovers, a beautifully crafted film noir in competition for the Golden Lion  

04/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Daria Woszek  • Director of Marygoround

“My heroine is a virgin and she is happy about it”

Daria Woszek • Director of Marygoround

We talked to the Polish director Daria Woszek, who puts a new spin on what it means to be “touched for the very first time” on her title Marygoround  

03/09/2020 | Fantasia 2020

Natalya Vorozhbit • Director of Bad Roads

“We are repeatedly making the same mistakes and stepping on the same rake”

Natalya Vorozhbit • Director of Bad Roads

VENICE 2020: We talked to Natalya Vorozhbit, the debuting director of Bad Roads, originally presented on stage at the Royal Court Theatre in London  

03/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | International Film Critics’ Week

Karin Rywkind Segal • Artistic director, Docaviv

"Filmmakers should trust festivals that have a strong, curated programme"

Karin Rywkind Segal • Artistic director, Docaviv

We spoke to Docaviv’s artistic director, Karin Rywkind Segal, to find out more about the hybrid version of the event and the current situation in the...  

03/09/2020 | Docaviv 2020

Christos Nikou • Director of Apples

“I always love movies that change the rules of our society a little bit”

Christos Nikou • Director of Apples

VENICE 2020: Director Christos Nikou tells Cineuropa about Apples, the opening film of Venice’s Orizzonti section  

03/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Orizzonti

Andrea Segre • Director of Venetian Molecules

“Places speak to me in an entirely different way”

Andrea Segre • Director of Venetian Molecules

VENICE 2020: We interviewed Andrea Segre, director of the pre-opening film of this year’s Venice Film Festival, the intimate documentary Venetian Molecules  

02/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

David Trueba • Director of A este lado del mundo

"We outsource our most embarrassing side”

David Trueba • Director of A este lado del mundo

With A este lado del mundo David Trueba critically tackles the issue of immigration, and to do so he transfers his inept main character to the border town...  

01/09/2020 | Málaga 2020

Ulla Heikkilä • Director of Eden

“Spirituality lives in all kinds of beauty rather than in churches or fear”

Ulla Heikkilä • Director of Eden

We chatted to Ulla Heikkilä, the director of Eden, currently in Finnish cinemas  

31/08/2020 | /Finland

Šemsudin Radončić • Director of Conspiracy

"The majority of Montenegrin citizens still believes that all this is fabricated"

Šemsudin Radončić • Director of Conspiracy

Journalist and filmmaker Šemsudin Radončić talked to us about his Sarajevo-premiered documentary Conspiracy, which investigates the attempted coup d’état in...  

31/08/2020 | Sarajevo 2020 | Documentary Competition

Janusz Kijowski •  Artistic Director, Koszalin Debut Film Festival

“There is no festival without conversation”

Janusz Kijowski • Artistic Director, Koszalin Debut Film Festival

We talked to Janusz Kijowski, the artistic director of “The Youth and Film” – The Festival of Film Debuts in Koszalin  

31/08/2020 | /Poland

Teemu Nikki and Jani Pösö •  Director and Producer of A Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

“We want to show something that’s almost impossible to show in the cinema”

Teemu Nikki and Jani Pösö • Director and Producer of A Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

We talked to Finland's Teemu Nikki and Jani Pösö, winners of the Eurimages Lab Project Award at Haugesund for their project A Blind Man Who Did Not Want to...  

31/08/2020 | Haugesund 2020

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