Interviews

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

8480 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 13/10/2025. 658 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Svetla Tsotsorkova  • Director of Sister

“It was easy to be real because everything we show is real; we just had to film it”

Svetla Tsotsorkova • Director of Sister

Sister, the sophomore film by Bulgaria’s Svetla Tsotsorkova, is a solid step forward in her interesting career; it is currently taking part in the New...  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | New Directors

Gonçalo Waddington  • Director of Patrick

“What is absent is usually present because of that very absence”

Gonçalo Waddington • Director of Patrick

We met up with Portuguese actor-turned-director Gonçalo Waddington, who is competing for San Sebastián’s Golden Shell with his first feature, Patrick  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Delphine Lehericey • Director of Beyond the Horizon

“The questions the film poses in 1976 are reminiscent of those still asked by women today”

Delphine Lehericey • Director of Beyond the Horizon

We met with Delphine Lehericey as she presented her new film, Beyond the Horizon , in a world premiere within the New Directors line-up of the San Sebastián...  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | New Directors

Juan Sebastián Torales  • Director of Almamula

“Everybody has felt misunderstood at some point in their lives”

Juan Sebastián Torales • Director of Almamula

Cineuropa caught up with Argentinian filmmaker Juan Sebastián Torales, now settled in France, whose first full-length feature, Almamula, has just earned him...  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | San Sebastián Industry

Miguel Ángel Jiménez  • Director of Window to the Sea

“Fiction can be a salve, and it can bring us back to ourselves”

Miguel Ángel Jiménez • Director of Window to the Sea

Spanish filmmaker Miguel Ángel Jiménez gives us the backstory to his new film, Window to the Sea — a co-production between Spain and Greece starring Emma...  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019

Nicole Gillet • General Delegate, Namur International French-Language Film Festival

"It’s flattering to see such a vast range of personalities taking an interest in the Namur Film Festival"

Nicole Gillet • General Delegate, Namur International French-Language Film Festival

Cinergie met with Nicole Gillet, the general delegate of the Namur International French-Language Film Festival, to talk about the 34th edition of the event  

25/09/2019 | Namur 2019

Maider Fernández Iriarte  • Director of Jordi's Letters

“When you make a film about people with disabilities, it can cause a certain discomfort”

Maider Fernández Iriarte • Director of Jordi's Letters

Maider Fernández Iriarte presents her brave and moving debut, Jordi's Letters, in the New Directors section at the San Sebastián International Film Festival  

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

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

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