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 30/10/2025. 653 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

Jana Karaivanova • Executive director, Bulgarian National Film Centre

"Producers who can secure good projects and partners should be supported the most"

Jana Karaivanova • Executive director, Bulgarian National Film Centre

We follow up on developments in the Bulgarian film industry with Jana Karaivanova, head of the Bulgarian National Film Centre  

17/09/2019 | Bulgaria

Sarah Gavron • Director of Rocks

“These girls really love the banter about their different experiences”

Sarah Gavron • Director of Rocks

We met up with British director and producer Sarah Gavron, whose new film Rocks world-premiered in the Platform section of Toronto  

16/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Platform

Maria Sødahl  • Director of Hope

“One should never take love for granted”

Maria Sødahl • Director of Hope

We caught up with Norway’s Maria Sødahl to discuss her Toronto-premiered emotionally fragile love story Hope  

16/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Discovery

Michel Reilhac  • Venice VR co-curator, Venice International Film Festival

“The way interactivity is designed is becoming really sophisticated at the moment”

Michel Reilhac • Venice VR co-curator, Venice International Film Festival

We met up with Michel Reilhac, co-curator of the VR section of the 76th Venice International Film Festival, to talk about immersive storytelling and...  

14/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Venice VR

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