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.

 
Pat Collins  • Director of Henry Glassie: Field Work

“The way we were shooting the film echoed the way Henry worked”

Pat Collins • Director of Henry Glassie: Field Work

Cineuropa chatted to Irish helmer Pat Collins, whose documentary Henry Glassie: Field Work revolves around the renowned American scholar  

13/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Contemporary World Cinema

Miro Drobný • Director of Who’s Next?

“The internet has become a new religion”

Miro Drobný • Director of Who’s Next?

We talked to Slovakian producer and director Miro Drobný about his latest film, Who’s Next?, which addresses the perils of the internet  

13/09/2019

Alice Winocour  • Director of Proxima

“You can be a good mother and a good astronaut”

Alice Winocour • Director of Proxima

On a rooftop overlooking the Toronto Film Festival, Cineuropa chatted to Alice Winocour about her new film Proxima, starring Eva Green, Sandra Hüller and...  

12/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Platform

Shelly Love  • Director of A Bump Along the Way

“I feel motivated to tell female stories and to give an authentic account of their experience”

Shelly Love • Director of A Bump Along the Way

We interviewed Shelly Love, the director of the Northern Irish comedy A Bump Along the Way, starring Bronagh Gallagher and Lola Petticrew in the lead roles  

12/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Discovery

Ina Weisse • Director of The Audition

“Anna is concerned about the boy, but ultimately, she is more concerned about herself”

Ina Weisse • Director of The Audition

We talked to German actress, screenwriter and director Ina Weisse about her latest film The Audition, which premiered in the Discovery section at the...  

12/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Discovery

Antoneta Kastrati  • Director of ZANA

“As a community, we have not processed any of the war traumas in depth. We had to move on; perhaps it was the only way”

Antoneta Kastrati • Director of ZANA

We sat down with Kosovar director-scriptwriter Antoneta Kastrati to discuss the background to her Toronto-screened debut feature, ZANA  

11/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Discovery

Grímur Hákonarson  • Director of The County

“Corruption is part of this community’s life”

Grímur Hákonarson • Director of The County

We chatted to Icelandic writer-director Grímur Hákonarson, whose third feature, The County, was presented in Toronto's Contemporary World Cinema section  

11/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Contemporary World Cinema

Paolo Sorrentino  • Director of The New Pope

“John Malkovich is the lay version of the Pope”

Paolo Sorrentino • Director of The New Pope

VENICE 2019: Paolo Sorrentino talks about returning to Rome, and Venice, for the second season of The Young Pope, which boasts a name change, The New Pope,...  

11/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Out of Competition

Karim Sayad  • Director of My English Cousin

"There’s clearly something personal about my films"

Karim Sayad • Director of My English Cousin

Swiss and Algerian filmmaker Karim Sayad talks to us about his latest work My English Cousin, which is screening in Toronto's TIFF Docs section  

10/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | TIFF Docs

Ciro Guerra  • Director of Waiting for the Barbarians

“Some people have called this novel unfilmable, but I could see it very clearly”

Ciro Guerra • Director of Waiting for the Barbarians

VENICE 2019: Ciro Guerra talks about the creative joys and challenges of adapting the JM Coetzee novel in Waiting for the Barbarians, which premiered in the...  

10/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Competition

Peter Mackie Burns  • Director of Rialto

“This man is brought through grief to a place where he doesn't know himself any more”

Peter Mackie Burns • Director of Rialto

VENICE 2019: Peter Mackie Burns chatted to Cineuropa about his Orizzonti film Rialto, which has nothing to do with the bridge in Venice  

10/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Orizzonti

P David Ebersole, Todd Hughes • Directors of House of Cardin

"Pierre Cardin is not an enigma, he's very open, consistent and authentic"

P David Ebersole, Todd Hughes • Directors of House of Cardin

VENICE 2019: American directorial duo P David Ebersole and Todd Hughes talked to us about their documentary House of Cardin, presented in the Giornate degli...  

10/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Giornate degli Autori

Isabel Sandoval, Eamon Farren • Actress-director and actor in Lingua Franca

"The story is not autobiographical, but the issue is very topical and needed to be told"

Isabel Sandoval, Eamon Farren • Actress-director and actor in Lingua Franca

VENICE 2019: Actress-director Isabel Sandoval talks to us about her third feature, Lingua Franca, together with her co-lead, Eamon Farren, in the Giornate...  

10/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Giornate degli Autori

Costanza Quatriglio • Director, artistic director and educational coordinator at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Palermo

“We’re calling on children to question the relationship that each of them has with the world”

Costanza Quatriglio • Director, artistic director and educational coordinator at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Palermo

VENICE 2019: During the Giornate degli Autori, we spoke to director Costanza Quatriglio about the CSC's Documentary Film Course, which she herself directs  

10/09/2019 | Venezia 2019 | Giornate degli Autori

Bartabas • Director of Time of the Untamed

"It’s a sort of coming-of-age trip through my own work"

Bartabas • Director of Time of the Untamed

VENICE 2019: We spoke to Bartabas, the man behind Time of the Untamed, chosen as the closing film of the Giornate degli Autori  

10/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Giornate degli Autori

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