Interviews

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

8499 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 02/11/2025. 653 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Elisabetta Ferrando  • Responsible for educational and cultural activities, Venice Film Festival, Giffoni Film Festival

"In a festival you live the cinema"

Elisabetta Ferrando • Responsible for educational and cultural activities, Venice Film Festival, Giffoni Film Festival

Elisabetta Ferrando works as a manager for educational and cultural projects for the Venice Film Festival and the Giffoni Film Festival (Arca CinemaGiovani)...  

29/09/2019 | Euro Film Fest

Daniel Sánchez Arévalo  • Director of Seventeen

“Animals make us better people”

Daniel Sánchez Arévalo • Director of Seventeen

Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s road movie Seventeen is the first Spanish Netflix film to take part in the Official Section of the San Sebastián Film Festival and...  

27/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Out of Competition

Malgorzata Szumowska  • Director of The Other Lamb

The Other Lamb is a little bit weird”

Malgorzata Szumowska • Director of The Other Lamb

Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska chatted to Cineuropa about her new film, The Other Lamb, which is playing in competition at the San Sebastián and...  

27/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Belén Funes  • Director of A Thief’s Daughter

"Making a film is about improvising"

Belén Funes • Director of A Thief’s Daughter

Feature film newcomer Belén Funes battled it out for the Golden Shell in San Sebastián with A Thief’s Daughter, a drama focused on a young mother faced with...  

27/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

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

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