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 02/07/2025. 662 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Rachel Leah Jones, Lea Tsemel • Director and protagonist of Advocate

“A shared sense of humanity is essential”

Rachel Leah Jones, Lea Tsemel • Director and protagonist of Advocate

We met with Advocate's co-director Rachel Leah Jones and protagonist Lea Tsemel at Bologna's Biografilm Festival to discuss the documentary, harshly...  

11/06/2019 | Biografilm 2019

Mihály Schwechtje and Genověva Petrovits  • Directors of Democracy Work in Progress

“Everyday corruption is poisoning our democracy”

Mihály Schwechtje and Genověva Petrovits • Directors of Democracy Work in Progress

We talked to Mihály Schwechtje and Genověva Petrovits, the recipients of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award, after their win at the Transilvania...  

11/06/2019 | Transilvania 2019 | TIFF Industry

Lluís Miñarro • Director of Love Me Not

“I like to make the audience uncomfortable by way of my creations"

Lluís Miñarro • Director of Love Me Not

Lluís Miñarro opened the Filmadrid International Film Festival 2019 with Love Me Not, his second fiction film which world-premiered at the recent...  

07/06/2019

Aneta Zagórska  • Producer, Krakow Film Cluster

"As a producer, it is not enough to have an interesting story; we have to know how we can cooperate on the project"

Aneta Zagórska • Producer, Krakow Film Cluster

Polish producer Aneta Zagórska sat down with us at Lima’s Al Este Central and Eastern European Film Festival to share her thoughts on her experience...  

07/06/2019 | Al Este 2019

Burak Çevik  • Director of Belonging

“I was trying to discover something that only cinema can”

Burak Çevik • Director of Belonging

We talked to Turkish director Burak Çevik about his Transilvania-screened second film, Belonging, inspired by true events  

07/06/2019 | Transilvania 2019

Benjamin Langeland • Director of Once Aurora

"I’m too impatient a person to work with fiction"

Benjamin Langeland • Director of Once Aurora

Cineuropa met with Norwegian director Benjamin Langeland on the occasion of the international Oslo Pix festival, where he was presenting his title Once...  

07/06/2019

Tudor Giurgiu  • Director of Parking

“I wanted to play with a culture clash”

Tudor Giurgiu • Director of Parking

We met up with Transilvania International Film Festival president Tudor Giurgiu, whose new film, Parking, opened this year’s edition of the gathering  

07/06/2019 | Transilvania 2019

Paul Tunge • Director of Du

"I opted for a circular narrative as opposed to a traditional linear form"

Paul Tunge • Director of Du

On the occasion of the third Oslo Pix Festival, the Norwegian director Paul Tunge introduced us to his fourth feature film Du, an independent film selected...  

06/06/2019

Fernando Colomo  • Director of Antes de la quema

“I’m open to offers from producers”

Fernando Colomo • Director of Antes de la quema

Following the creative comeback that was Isla bonita, and after the recent box-office smash The Tribe, Fernando Colomo is releasing Antes de la quema, which...  

05/06/2019

Samereh Rezaie  • Actress and director of I'm a Happy Actress

“Many Afghani refugees coming to Europe are actually born and raised in Iran”

Samereh Rezaie • Actress and director of I'm a Happy Actress

We chatted to Afghani filmmaker Samereh Rezaie at the Fajr International Film Festival about being an Afghani woman filmmaker living in Iran and why many...  

05/06/2019 | Fajr 2019

Jeanne Brunfaut • Director general, Wallonia-Brussels Federation Film and Audiovisual Centre

"We have to find a balance between radical film proposals and more mainstream cinema offerings"

Jeanne Brunfaut • Director general, Wallonia-Brussels Federation Film and Audiovisual Centre

Jeanne Brunfaut, director general of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation Film and Audiovisual Centre, looks back on the fantastic results at Cannes and...  

04/06/2019

Adolf El Assal • Director of Sawah

"I'm lucky to be able to use my personal experiences in order to talk about funny situations and to show another side of Luxembourg"

Adolf El Assal • Director of Sawah

Luxembourgish director of Egyptian origin Adolf El Assal chats to us about his latest film, Sawah, as well as his journey, his influences and projects in...  

31/05/2019

Michał Bielawski  • Director of The Wind. A Documentary Thriller

"When I was preparing for my film, a judge told me that the number of crimes committed increases because of halny"

Michał Bielawski • Director of The Wind. A Documentary Thriller

Polish director Michał Bielawski talked to us about The Wind. A Documentary Thriller, the Krakow Film Festival’s opening movie  

31/05/2019 | Krakow 2019

Karim Aïnouz  • Director of The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão

“I cast by asking people to send in videos of themselves peeling potatoes for three minutes”

Karim Aïnouz • Director of The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão

CANNES 2019: Karim Aïnouz spoke to us about this year’s Un Certain Regard Prize winner, the Brazilian-German co-production The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão  

29/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Un Certain Regard

Nicolas Bedos  • Director of La Belle Époque

"A character who has a bit of my own ambivalence in my relation with progress”

Nicolas Bedos • Director of La Belle Époque

CANNES 2019: We sat down with Nicolas Bedos to discuss his second feature, La Belle Époque, a film which mostly talks about our times, screened out of...  

28/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Out of Competition

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