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.

 
Giorgio Gosetti  • Artistic director, Giornate degli Autori

"The European cultural identity is not a part of the European project, it’s its starting point"

Giorgio Gosetti • Artistic director, Giornate degli Autori

As part of our #EuropeansAgainstCovid19 series in collaboration with LUX Prize, Venice Giornate degli Autori artistic director Giorgio Gosetti talks to us...  

07/05/2020 | LUX Prize 2020/#EuropeansAgainstCovid19

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya

"Us humans have this amazing ability to adapt, so society is adapting to the new virtual situation"

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya

As part of our #EuropeansAgainstCovid19 series in collaboration with LUX Prize, Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska talks to us about the current...  

06/05/2020 | LUX Prize 2020/#EuropeansAgainstCovid19

Margherita Chiti  • Distributor, Teodora Film

“We are trying to understand how to cooperate in order to help all the theatres that have sustained us"

Margherita Chiti • Distributor, Teodora Film

Cineuropa interviewed Margherita Chiti of Teodora Film to discuss the complexities of the Italian market and her position in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis  

05/05/2020 | Italy

Mathias Holtz  • Cinema programmer, Folkets Hus Och Parke

"Swedish jukebox-cinema practice could be used as a reopening model"

Mathias Holtz • Cinema programmer, Folkets Hus Och Parke

As part of our #EuropeansAgainstCovid19 series in collaboration with LUX Prize, Folkets Hus Och Parke cinema programmer Mathias Holtz talks to us about the...  

05/05/2020 | LUX Prize 2020/#EuropeansAgainstCovid19

Lina Soualem  •​​ Director of Their Algeria

"I needed to break that silence"

Lina Soualem •​​ Director of Their Algeria

Lina Soualem tells us about her first feature film, the documentary Their Algeria, revealed and well received at the Visions du Réel festival  

05/05/2020 | Visions du Réel 2020

Christophe Leparc  • Secretary general, Director's Fortnight

"Our main goal is to help the films we invited to this year's selection"

Christophe Leparc • Secretary general, Director's Fortnight

As part of our #EuropeansAgainstCovid19 series in collaboration with LUX Prize, Cannes Director's Fortnight secretary general Christophe Leparc talks to us...  

05/05/2020 | LUX Prize 2020/#EuropeansAgainstCovid19

Francesca Mazzoleni  • Director of Punta sacra

“It made me angry that this place and its people weren’t being portrayed as they really are”

Francesca Mazzoleni • Director of Punta sacra

We chatted with director Francesca Mazzoleni about her documentary Punta sacra - the victor of the Visions du Réel Festival - and the tenacious community of...  

04/05/2020 | Visions du Réel 2020

Heleen Gerritsen  • Director, goEast Film Festival

“None of us has the ambition to become a streaming platform; that’s not what festivals are about”

Heleen Gerritsen • Director, goEast Film Festival

We chatted to Heleen Gerritsen, the director of goEast, about the decision to run the event in a hybrid format, and acts of solidarity within the festival...  

04/05/2020 | goEast 2020

Christian Bräuer  • President, CICAE

“Cinemas must keep their audience engaged and continually communicate with them through their channels”

Christian Bräuer • President, CICAE

We caught up with Christian Bräuer, president of CICAE, to talk through the best practices that exhibitors should be putting in place during this...  

04/05/2020 | Europe

Jakob Kijas  • Distributor, Eksystent Distribution

“We have to consider if postponing is really the best strategy in this situation”

Jakob Kijas • Distributor, Eksystent Distribution

Cineuropa talked to Jakob Kijas, of German distributor Eksystent Distribution, about the main challenges of the industry and the global health crisis  

30/04/2020 | Germany

Dirk Verheye and Inti Calfat  • Directors of Into the Night

“We prefer to turn the camera to the characters looking at the fire, rather than to the fire itself”

Dirk Verheye and Inti Calfat • Directors of Into the Night

We talked to Dirk Verheye and Inti Calfat, directors of the first Belgian Netflix series, Into the Night, online from 1 May and produced by Entre Chien et Loup  

30/04/2020 | Belgium

Tamara Tatishvili  • Tutor, SOFA

"Having a training platform for professionals is crucial for Eastern Partnership countries"

Tamara Tatishvili • Tutor, SOFA

We chatted to Georgian film professional Tamara Tatishvili about her work as a tutor at the ongoing School of Film Advancement  

29/04/2020 | SOFA 2020

Cláudia Varejão  • Director of Amor Fati

“The characters in my film are life’s heroes; they are my heroes”

Cláudia Varejão • Director of Amor Fati

We caught up with Portuguese director Cláudia Varejão to find out more about her Visions du Réel title Amor Fati  

28/04/2020 | Visions du Réel 2020

Gero von Boehm  • Director of Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

“Helmut Newton wanted to show strong women”

Gero von Boehm • Director of Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

We talked to the director of Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful, Gero von Boehm, who in turn talked to Grace Jones, Isabella Rossellini and Charlotte...  

27/04/2020 | Tribeca 2020

Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff  • Founding partner, La Vingt-Cinquième Heure

"In these times of crisis, our system allows exhibitors to maintain social ties with their audience"

Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff • Founding partner, La Vingt-Cinquième Heure

We met up with Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff, founding partner of La Vingt-Cinquième Heure, which has launched an innovative tool to keep movie theatres in...  

24/04/2020 | France

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