Interviews

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

8507 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 07/11/2025. 650 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
John Wallace  • Producer, Cowtown Pictures

“I have learned the most from working with other producers”

John Wallace • Producer, Cowtown Pictures

We chatted with the Irish producer John Wallace about his experiences and his expectations as an EFP Producer on the Move  

11/05/2020 | Producers on the Move 2020

Manuel José Damásio and Lyndsay Duthie  • Chair of the GEECT board and member of the GEECT board

“Schools must quickly come up with tools to supervise students and assure their safety”

Manuel José Damásio and Lyndsay Duthie • Chair of the GEECT board and member of the GEECT board

We spoke to Professor Manuel José Damásio and Professor Lyndsay Duthie, from the European Grouping of Film and Television Schools, to discuss how COVID-19...  

08/05/2020 | Europe

Sergio Oksman  • Coordinator, ECAM Documentary Film Degree

"We really foster creative freedom here"

Sergio Oksman • Coordinator, ECAM Documentary Film Degree

Sergio Oksman breaks down some of the unique characteristics of the specialist subject that he manages at the Film and Audiovisual School of the Community...  

07/05/2020 | Spain

Maria Bonsanti  • Director, Eurodoc

"This fragility is also the strength of documentary film"

Maria Bonsanti  • Director, Eurodoc

Creative documentaries programme director Maria Bonsanti speaks of the paradoxes of working online, the future return to filming and the identity of Eurodoc  

07/05/2020 | Europe

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

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