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.

 
Tom Abell • Distributor, Peccadillo Pictures

"One of the problems we always face with the theatrical releases, is being given enough space in the cinemas"

Tom Abell • Distributor, Peccadillo Pictures

Europa Distribution interviewed distributor Tom Abell, founder of British company Peccadillo Pictures, to talk about the UK distribution landscape and the...  

13/12/2019 | UK

Frédéric Boyer  • Artistic director, Les Arcs Film Festival

"What’s important are new voices, new faces, the desire to create"

Frédéric Boyer • Artistic director, Les Arcs Film Festival

Frédéric Boyer, film selector at the Les Arcs Film Festival (whose 11th edition will run from 14-21 December 2019), explains the Work in Progress line-up  

13/12/2019 | Les Arcs 2019

Antony Root • Executive vice-president, HBO Europe

"HBO Europe is a bottom-up organisation"

Antony Root • Executive vice-president, HBO Europe

We met up with Antony Root, executive vice-president of HBO Europe, as he presented Isabel Coixet's Foodie Love at Brussels’ Are You Series? festival  

12/12/2019 | Are You Series 2019

Isabel Coixet • Director of Foodie Love

"I can recognise myself in this series"

Isabel Coixet • Director of Foodie Love

Cineuropa met up with director Isabel Coixet, who is presenting her series Foodie Love at Brussels’ Are You Series? festival  

12/12/2019 | Are You Series 2019

Mehdi M Barsaoui and Sami Bouajila • Director of and actor in A Son

"We’re dealing with a real filmmaker here"

Mehdi M Barsaoui and Sami Bouajila • Director of and actor in A Son

We met up with director Mehdi M Barsaoui and actor Sami Bouajila on the occasion of their film A Son scooping the Cineuropa Prize during Brussels...  

09/12/2019 | Cinémamed 2019

Chiara Fortuna • International Affairs Staff Officer, General Directorate for Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Culture

“Italy and Spain have a very good relationship and we are both keen to develop it further”

Chiara Fortuna • International Affairs Staff Officer, General Directorate for Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Culture

We met up with Chiara Fortuna, international affairs staff officer at the General Directorate for Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Culture, at the Seville...  

04/12/2019 | Seville 2019 | Seville Industry

Anna Różalska • Producer of The Great Match

"This recognition is proof for us that the values we’re promoting are close to all sorts of people around the world"

Anna Różalska • Producer of The Great Match

We chatted to producer Anna Różalska, of Poland’s Match&Spark, about The Great Match, which scooped the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at Tallinn...  

04/12/2019 | Black Nights 2019 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

Rene Pannevis • Director of Looted

"I wanted to portrait a personal experience of growing up in the world of petty crimes as I remember it"

Rene Pannevis • Director of Looted

Dutch-born, London-based filmmaker Rene Pannevis world-premiered Looted in the First Feature Competition at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival - and he...  

03/12/2019 | Black Nights 2019 | First Feature Competition

Hossein Pourseifi • Director of Tomorrow We Are Free

"All I had is the memories of the family, telling me the story 30 years later"

Hossein Pourseifi • Director of Tomorrow We Are Free

We talked to Iranian-born, Germany-based director Hossein Pourseifi, who presented Tomorrow We Are Free in the First Feature Competition of Tallinn's Black...  

03/12/2019 | Black Nights 2019 | First Feature Competition

Bartosz Kruhlik • Director of Supernova

“The construction of the story is rigid, which involved a huge risk. If I changed or cut 2 or 3 scenes, everything would fall apart”

Bartosz Kruhlik • Director of Supernova

Cineuropa sat down with Supernova director Bartosz Kruhlik to discuss his first feature film, screening in the First Feature Competition at Tallinn’s Black...  

03/12/2019 | Black Nights 2019 | First Feature Competition

Sebastian Brameshuber • Director of Movements of a Nearby Mountain

"My film is closer to poetry than to prose"

Sebastian Brameshuber • Director of Movements of a Nearby Mountain

Austrian director Sebastian Brameshuber took part in the 9th Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote with his third feature film, Movements of a Nearby Mountain  

03/12/2019 | Lanzarote 2019

Fatos Berisha • Director of The Flying Circus

"This is my personal story, I struggled to distance myself from it"

Fatos Berisha • Director of The Flying Circus

Kosovo's Fatos Berisha has discussed his latest feature The Flying Circus with us at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival, where it competed for the Grand...  

03/12/2019 | Black Nights 2019 | Competition

Ulrich Thomsen, Ewen Bremner • Director and actor of Gutterbee

"Religion, racism and fear of each other are ruining human relationships"

Ulrich Thomsen, Ewen Bremner • Director and actor of Gutterbee

We interviewed Danish actor-turned-director Ulrich Thomsen, who presented his feature Gutterbee in competition at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival,...  

03/12/2019 | Black Nights 2019 | Competition

Aurélie Losseau • Coordinator, Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival

“If the festival is growing, it also has something to do with the healthy state of Mediterranean production”

Aurélie Losseau • Coordinator, Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival

Cinergie met with Aurélie Losseau, the coordinator of the Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival, to discuss its 19th edition  

02/12/2019 | Cinémamed 2019

Andrei Gruzsniczki  • Director of Zavera

“In a way, all of my films are about trust”

Andrei Gruzsniczki • Director of Zavera

Cineuropa met up with Romanian director Andrei Gruzsniczki to discuss his third film, Zavera, which has world-premiered in the International Competition at...  

29/11/2019 | Cairo 2019

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