Interviews

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

8295 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 07/07/2025. 650 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Josefine Tengblad • Head of Drama, TV4, C More

"We're growing and constantly seeking for new projects"

Josefine Tengblad • Head of Drama, TV4, C More

At Göteborg's TV Drama Vision, we met up with Josefine Tengblad, Head of Drama at Sweden's TV4 and C More, to discuss the company's approach to the industry...  

04/02/2020 | Göteborg 2020 | Göteborg Industry

Johanna Koljonen • Author, Nostradamus Report

"We are entering a 3-5 year period of an exceptionally high demand"

Johanna Koljonen • Author, Nostradamus Report

Johanna Koljonen, the author of Göteborg Film Festival’s 7th Nostradamus Report, entitled ”A Creative Explosion”, discusses the content of the study  

04/02/2020 | Göteborg 2020 | Göteborg Industry

Ina Lerner Grevstad • Director of Svik

"How much you're willing to sacrifice of your life to save another person"

Ina Lerner Grevstad • Director of Svik

We met up with Norwegian-based director Ina Lerner Grevstad to discuss her series Svik, a project in development presented in Göteborg Film Festival’s TV...  

04/02/2020 | Göteborg 2020 | Göteborg Industry

Hörður Rúnarsson • Producer, co-founder & CEO, Glassriver

"The responses we've got to our projects have been really, really positive"

Hörður Rúnarsson • Producer, co-founder & CEO, Glassriver

Iceland's Hörður Rúnarsson, producer for Glassriver, gives us an insight into the company's latest projects, including Siminn Premium S-VoD's My Funeral, in...  

04/02/2020 | Göteborg 2020 | Göteborg Industry

Cia Edström • Head of TV Drama Vision, Göteborg Film Festival

"Classic Nordic market has moved on to become something more deep and levelled"

Cia Edström • Head of TV Drama Vision, Göteborg Film Festival

We met up with Cia Edström, head of the Göteborg Film Festival's TV Drama Vision, to discuss the professional event and the state of the TV industry in the...  

04/02/2020 | Göteborg 2020 | Göteborg Industry

John Webster  • Director of Eye to Eye

“The impossible can happen”

John Webster • Director of Eye to Eye

We talked to John Webster, the director of Eye to Eye, which has world-premiered at this year’s edition of the Finnish DocPoint festival  

03/02/2020 | DocPoint 2020

Visar Morina  • Director of Exile

“I wanted to show the feeling of being imprisoned in one's own point of view”

Visar Morina • Director of Exile

We spoke to German director Visar Morina on the occasion of the world premiere of his feature Exile at the Sundance Film Festival  

03/02/2020 | Sundance 2020 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Åsa Sjöström  • Director of The Last Circus Princess

“Circus families always stick together”

Åsa Sjöström • Director of The Last Circus Princess

Cineuropa talked to photographer and first-time director Åsa Sjöström, who is showing The Last Circus Princess at the Göteborg Film Festival  

31/01/2020 | Göteborg 2020

Amanda Kernell  • Director of Charter

"I see my film as a declaration of love to all divorced parents trying every day to do their best for their children"

Amanda Kernell • Director of Charter

We spoke to Amanda Kernell on the occasion of the world premiere of her second feature, Charter, at the Sundance Film Festival  

30/01/2020 | Sundance 2020 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Stig Björkman  • Director

“Usually you get a retrospective when you die, so at least I get to enjoy it”

Stig Björkman • Director

Cineuropa caught up with the hero of this year’s Göteborg retrospective, director Stig Björkman, who decided to come to the interview barefoot – even...  

29/01/2020 | Göteborg 2020

David Aronowitsch  • Director of Idomeni

“I was trying to make a political film by making a non-political film”

David Aronowitsch • Director of Idomeni

We met up with David Aronowitsch, the director of Idomeni, competing for the Dragon Award in the Nordic Documentary section of Göteborg  

29/01/2020 | Göteborg 2020

Jon Blåhed  • Director of Inland

"I enjoy being able to surprise the audience and hand them something they think they don’t want to be handed"

Jon Blåhed • Director of Inland

We spoke to Swedish helmer Jon Blåhed about his feature Inland, which showcases the vast expanses of northern Sweden  

28/01/2020 | Göteborg 2020

Mladen Kovačević  • Director of Merry Christmas, Yiwu

"I wanted to make a film about the complexities of the real China"

Mladen Kovačević • Director of Merry Christmas, Yiwu

We chatted to Serbian filmmaker Mladen Kovačević, whose latest documentary, Merry Christmas, Yiwu, has just world-premiered in Rotterdam's Bright Future section  

28/01/2020 | IFFR 2020 | Bright Future

Maria Bäck  • Director of Psychosis in Stockholm

“You get used to navigating chaos”

Maria Bäck • Director of Psychosis in Stockholm

Cineuropa met up with Maria Bäck, the director of this year’s Göteborg opening film, Psychosis in Stockholm, as well as her baby boy, who joined her for the...  

28/01/2020 | Göteborg 2020

Anne Paulicevich and Frédéric Fonteyne • Directors of Working Girls

“We wanted to explore a female form of heroism”

Anne Paulicevich and Frédéric Fonteyne • Directors of Working Girls

We met with Anne Paulicevich and Frédéric Fonteyne to talk about their film Working Girls, selected in the IFFR  

27/01/2020 | IFFR 2020 | Voices Limelight

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