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 05/07/2025. 650 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Matteo Tortone and Alexis Taillant  • Director and producer of Mother Lode

“The subject of the film is the relationship between men, the Devil and gold”

Matteo Tortone and Alexis Taillant • Director and producer of Mother Lode

The winners of the Eurimages Lab Project Award at Thessaloniki, director Matteo Tortone and producer Alexis Taillant, discuss their project Mother Lode with us  

20/11/2019 | Thessaloniki 2019 | Agora

Christoph Gampl  • Director of Man from Beirut

“If you don’t have any money, the least you can do is be original”

Christoph Gampl • Director of Man from Beirut

We spoke to German director Christoph Gampl, who adds some noir to the main Tallinn competition with Man from Beirut  

19/11/2019 | Black Nights 2019 | Competition

Dathai Keane  • Director of Finky

“In the end, it’s a classic hero’s journey”

Dathai Keane • Director of Finky

We talked to Irish filmmaker Dathai Keane about his debut feature, Finky, and fairy tales for adults  

19/11/2019 | Black Nights 2019 | First Feature Competition

Uta Beria  • Director of Negative Numbers

"These young people are both guilty and oppressed"

Uta Beria • Director of Negative Numbers

Georgian filmmaker Uta Beria talks to us about his first feature film Negative Numbers, screened in competition at the 20th Arras Film Festival  

19/11/2019 | Arras 2019

Monika Jordan-Mlodzianowska  • Director of The Iron Bridge

"It’s a metaphor for personal relationships"

Monika Jordan-Mlodzianowska • Director of The Iron Bridge

Polish filmmaker Monika Jordan-Mlodzianowska discusses her feature debut, The Iron Bridge, which was screened in competition at the 20th Arras Film Festival  

19/11/2019 | Arras 2019

Guy Daleiden  • Director, Film Fund Luxembourg

"Give our societies the opportunity to diversify, and to not miss the digital boat"

Guy Daleiden • Director, Film Fund Luxembourg

We met with Guy Daleiden, the director of the Film Fund Luxembourg, who chatted to us about the state of Luxembourg’s audiovisual sector today  

18/11/2019

Marc Vigil  • Director of The Swamp’s Silence

“The films we see end up becoming part of us”

Marc Vigil • Director of The Swamp’s Silence

Marc Vigil directs his first feature film with The Swamp’s Silence, now showing at the Seville European Film Festival following its premiere in Busan  

15/11/2019 | Seville 2019

Liviu Săndulescu • Director of Cărturan

“Setting this story in the countryside allowed for a good balance between life and death”

Liviu Săndulescu • Director of Cărturan

Romanian director Liviu Săndulescu tells us about his feature debut, Cărturan, screened in competition at the 20th Arras Film Festival  

15/11/2019 | Arras 2019

Jaione Camborda  • Director of Arima

“The film works towards the fusion of identities; it’s a game of mirrors between multifaceted characters”

Jaione Camborda • Director of Arima

Cineuropa seized the opportunity to chat with Jaione Camborda, the director of Arima, on the occasion of the film’s European premiere in the New Waves...  

14/11/2019 | Seville 2019

Chris Marcich  • Head, Croatian Audiovisual Centre

"There is a certain efficiency in smaller countries grouping together"

Chris Marcich • Head, Croatian Audiovisual Centre

At the recent DOK Leipzig, we met up with head of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) Chris Marcich and talked about the current situation for Croatian...  

14/11/2019 | DOK Leipzig 2019

Lech Majewski  • Director of Valley of the Gods

“There is always a touch of the unexpected when making art”

Lech Majewski • Director of Valley of the Gods

As he was honoured with a Special Camerimage Directing Award, Cineuropa met up with Polish director Lech Majewski to discuss his latest star-studded...  

13/11/2019

Jesper Kurlandsky and Fredrik Wenzel  • Directors of Charismatic Megafauna

“You have to find that one perfect minute, there and then – it’s truly nerve-wracking”

Jesper Kurlandsky and Fredrik Wenzel • Directors of Charismatic Megafauna

We chatted to the well-travelled Swedish duo of Fredrik Wenzel and Jesper Kurlandsky about their joint directorial effort, Charismatic Megafauna  

13/11/2019 | Stockholm 2019

Oskar Alegría  • Director of Zumiriki

“It was important to me to hold on to what is left of our natural heritage”

Oskar Alegría • Director of Zumiriki

With his second film, Zumiriki, unveiled at Venice, Spanish filmmaker Oskar Alegría has been hopping from festival to festival; we caught up with him before...  

12/11/2019 | Seville 2019

Štepán Altrichter  • Director of National Street

“The story is just not that important”

Štepán Altrichter • Director of National Street

Cineuropa met up with Czech director Štepán Altrichter, who, after Schmitke, returned to the Cottbus Film Festival with his second feature, National Street  

12/11/2019 | Cottbus 2019

Alberto Rodríguez and Rafael Cobos • Director and writer of The Plague

“Filming a show like this is like running a marathon”

Alberto Rodríguez and Rafael Cobos • Director and writer of The Plague

Director Alberto Rodríguez and screenwriter Rafael Cobos continue to work side by side on the second series of Movistar Plus+'s The Plague, presented at the...  

11/11/2019 | Seville 2019

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