Interviews

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

8293 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 03/07/2025. 661 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Martin Mareček • Director of Over The Hills

"This might be a film about man's search for his inner woman"

Martin Mareček • Director of Over The Hills

Czech filmmaker Martin Mareček talked to us about Over The Hills, which was world-premiered in the Documentary Competition at Karlovy Vary  

10/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Documentary Competition

Ivan Zachariáš • Director of The Sleepers

"It's easier to write characters when they are strong and not quite passive"

Ivan Zachariáš • Director of The Sleepers

HBO mini-series The Sleepers was presented out of competition at Karlovy Vary, and we met up with its director Ivan Zachariáš to discuss it  

10/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Out of Competition

Miguel Llansó  • Director of Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway

"If the preference is for something successful, rather than something risky, then we have a problem as a species"

Miguel Llansó • Director of Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway

We chatted to Spanish director Miguel Llansó after he premiered his new feature Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway in Neuchâtel  

10/07/2019 | NIFFF 2019

Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník • Directors of Old-Timers

"The story is not only Czech, and not only about communism - it could happen anywhere and anytime"

Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník • Directors of Old-Timers

Martin Dušek and Ondřej Provazník, the Czech directing duo behind Old-Timers, shown out of competition at Karlovy Vary, discuss their film with us  

10/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Out of Competition

Michal Hogenauer  • Director of A Certain Kind of Silence

“It is necessary to find your own film language and your own poetics”

Michal Hogenauer • Director of A Certain Kind of Silence

Cineuropa talked to debutant Czech filmmaker Michal Hogenauer about his movie A Certain Kind of Silence, the banality of evil, genre filmmaking and minimalism  

09/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | East of the West

Nazareno Manuel Nicoletti • Director of Up To Down

"Filmmakers are supposed to provoke the viewers and make them feel the sadness or happiness of the world"

Nazareno Manuel Nicoletti • Director of Up To Down

We interviewed Italian filmmaker Nazareno Manuel Nicoletti, who presented his newest title Up To Down in the Documentary Competition of Karlovy Vary  

09/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Documentary Competition

MIDPOINT Feature Launch Script Consultancy @ KVIFF Eastern Promises Industry Days

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MIDPOINT Feature Launch Script Consultancy @ KVIFF Eastern Promises Industry Days

We interviewed the professionals participating in the MIDPOINT Feature Launch Script Consultancy workshop that took place as part of the KVIFF Eastern...  

09/07/2019 | MIDPOINT 2019

Marian Valev • Director of Bad Girl

“Zhaneta isn’t just a victim of her mother’s ambitions, but also of the sport itself”

Marian Valev • Director of Bad Girl

Director Marian Valev talks to us about his first feature film, Bad Girl, on the occasion of its screening at the 12th edition of Rome’s Festa del cinema...  

09/07/2019

Anaïs Emery  • Director, Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival

“In the future, genre cinema will continue to be a laboratory of different aesthetics”

Anaïs Emery • Director, Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival

Cineuropa sat down with the director of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, Anaïs Emery, to discuss the gathering itself and the state of...  

09/07/2019 | NIFFF 2019

Andrei Cohn  • Director of Arrest

“I was more interested in showing how it had been possible to cohabit, day after day, with this madness”

Andrei Cohn • Director of Arrest

We caught up with Romanian director Andrei Cohn, whose second feature, Arrest, was shown in the East of the West competition at Karlovy Vary  

09/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | East of the West

Lendita Zeqiraj  • Director of Aga's House

"I had to dig deep into the crevices of the characters"

Lendita Zeqiraj • Director of Aga's House

We chatted to Kosovar filmmaker Lendita Zeqiraj, whose feature debut, Aga's House, world-premiered in the East of the West section of the KVIFF and picked...  

08/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | East of the West

MIDPOINT Feature Launch winners @ KVIFF Eastern Promises Industry Days

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MIDPOINT Feature Launch winners @ KVIFF Eastern Promises Industry Days

At the KVIFF Eastern Promises Industry Days of the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, we interviewed the winners of the MIDPOINT Feature Launch...  

08/07/2019 | MIDPOINT 2019

Yuriy Shylov  • Director of Projectionist

“I saw the heroes as dinosaurs living in today’s world”

Yuriy Shylov • Director of Projectionist

We caught up with director Yuriy Shylov to get the low-down on his feature debut, Projectionist, which unspooled in the KVIFF’s Documentary Competition  

08/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Documentary Competition

Hong Khaou  • Director of Monsoon

“The characters have to live with the unintended consequences of what their parents did”

Hong Khaou • Director of Monsoon

We sat down with Cambodian-born British director Hong Khaou to unpick his second movie, Monsoon, in competition at Karlovy Vary  

08/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Competition

Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B Lee  • Directors of Bottled Songs

"It’s this line you have to walk, between selling your project but not selling out your project…"

Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B Lee • Directors of Bottled Songs

We have interviewed Kevin B Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, writers, directors and producers of the documentary Bottled Songs, winner of the Eurimages Lab...  

08/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

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