Interviews

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

8443 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 18/09/2025. 647 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Metod Pevec • Director of I Am Frank

“The European left is unsure of leftist thought and embarrassed about its own, Marxist, roots”

Metod Pevec • Director of I Am Frank

We chatted to Metod Pevec, one of the leading voices from the first generation of filmmakers who emerged after Slovenia gained its independence, about his...  

25/09/2019

Fyzal Boulifa • Director of Lynn + Lucy

“Lynn's tragedy is that she finds self-esteem and an identity in the worst possible place”

Fyzal Boulifa • Director of Lynn + Lucy

British filmmaker Fyzal Boulifa impresses with his first feature, Lynn + Lucy, with which he is competing in the New Directors section of San Sebastián  

25/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | New Directors

Callisto Mc Nulty  • Director of Delphine and Carole

"Images have the power to change the order of things by building a richer view of the world"

Callisto Mc Nulty • Director of Delphine and Carole

We sat down with Callisto Mc Nulty to break down her documentary Delphine and Carole, which has just screened at San Sebastián and is selected for the EFAs  

24/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

Maria Pirkkalainen  • Producer, Finnish Film Affair

“I want to bring more ‘Love & Anarchy’ into the industry”

Maria Pirkkalainen • Producer, Finnish Film Affair

Cineuropa caught up with the new producer of the Finnish Film Affair, Maria Pirkkalainen, to discuss this year’s edition of the event  

24/09/2019

Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga • Directors of The Endless Trench

“Fear could turn any of us into moles"

Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga • Directors of The Endless Trench

Basque trio Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga are in San Sebastián to present The Endless Trench, a sensitive, moving film rich in metaphor...  

23/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Lucía Alemany • Director of The Innocence

"My film would look very different without The Screen"

Lucía Alemany • Director of The Innocence

The Innocence, one of the first films to emerge from the incubator program at ECAM’s The Screen, is our first introduction to debut director Lucía Alemany  

23/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | New Directors

Zeresenay Berhane Mehari • Director of Sweetness in the Belly

“My siblings and I had to think about this challenge of what home means and what a community means”

Zeresenay Berhane Mehari • Director of Sweetness in the Belly

Cineuropa spoke to Zeresenay Berhane Mehari about various aspects of Sweetness in the Belly, his adaptation of the Camilla Gibb book  

23/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Discovery

Alejandro Amenábar  • Director of While at War

"Changing our minds is what makes us human"

Alejandro Amenábar • Director of While at War

The man behind smash hits such as The Others and Agora returns to historical period films with While at War, in which he relives a decisive political moment...  

22/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Leticia Dolera • Director of Perfect Life

“What’s life all about in 2019?”

Leticia Dolera • Director of Perfect Life

Leticia Dolera gives us the inside scoop on Perfect Life, a double award winner at Canneseries now screening at the San Sebastián International Film Festival  

20/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Velodrome

Edhem Fočo  • Director, Al Jazeera Balkans

"A TV cut is much closer to the ordinary viewer"

Edhem Fočo • Director, Al Jazeera Balkans

We talked to Edhem Fočo, director of Sarajevo-based Al Jazeera Balkans and its festival dedicated to TV documentaries, AJB DOC, which is taking place from...  

20/09/2019

Anna Möttölä and Pekka Lanerva  • Executive director and artistic director, Love & Anarchy

“What we care about the most is the audience”

Anna Möttölä and Pekka Lanerva • Executive director and artistic director, Love & Anarchy

Cineuropa met up with Love & Anarchy’s executive director, Anna Möttölä, and artistic director, Pekka Lanerva, in Helsinki to talk about the 32nd edition of...  

20/09/2019

Silvia van der Heiden  • Director, Nederlands Film Festival

"Our aim is to contribute to the development of the Dutch film and media industry – the HFM is one of the efforts to achieve that"

Silvia van der Heiden • Director, Nederlands Film Festival

We chatted to the director of the Nederlands Film Festival, Silvia van der Heiden, to get the low-down on the upcoming 39th edition of the Dutch gathering  

19/09/2019 | Nederlands Film Festival 2019

Max Howard  • Producer

“What a perfect way to establish what’s where, by having a cultural export from Kazakhstan and surprising the world”

Max Howard • Producer

At the Almaty Film Festival, we spoke to producer and studio executive Max Howard, who has worked for Warner Bros Feature Animation and Walt Disney Feature...  

18/09/2019 | Almaty 2019

Daniel Joseph Borgman  • Director of Resin

“Love without the potential for freedom becomes toxic and, ultimately, destructive”

Daniel Joseph Borgman • Director of Resin

We chatted to New Zealand-born filmmaker Daniel Joseph Borgman about the secluded, broken paradise depicted in his third feature, Resin  

18/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Contemporary World Cinema

Minos Nikolakakis  • Director of Entwined

"What you craft in your mind is always more effective than what actually happens"

Minos Nikolakakis • Director of Entwined

We chatted to Greek writer-director Minos Nikolakakis, whose feature debut, Entwined, world-premiered in Toronto's Discovery section  

18/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Discovery

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