Interviews

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

8477 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 11/10/2025. 655 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Katalin Bársony • Director of How Far the Stars

"What I love in my film is the fact that you see a natural friendship between a world-class star and someone who comes from a small ghetto"

Katalin Bársony • Director of How Far the Stars

We chatted to Hungarian filmmaker Katalin Bársony about her feature How Far the Stars, which was shown in Sarajevo's Documentary Competition  

26/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Documentary Competition

Henner Winckler  • Director of A Voluntary Year

A Voluntary Year is more about our fears of how things could be than how they really are”

Henner Winckler • Director of A Voluntary Year

We sat down with German director Henner Winckler to pick apart A Voluntary Year, which he co-directed with Ulrich Köhler and which screened at Locarno  

23/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Laurent Micheli  • Director of Lola

“Let minorities re-appropriate their stories”

Laurent Micheli • Director of Lola

We met up with Laurent Micheli to talk about his latest film, Lola vers la mer, shown this week at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival  

23/08/2019 | Angoulême 2019

Gyda Velvin Myklebust  • Programme director, New Nordic Films, Haugesund

“You’ll find a lot here to pick up and bring back home”

Gyda Velvin Myklebust • Programme director, New Nordic Films, Haugesund

We caught up with Gyda Velvin Myklebust, programme director of the New Nordic Films industry section of the Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund  

23/08/2019 | Haugesund 2019 | New Nordic Films

Siniša Gacić • Director of Daughter of Camorra

"The basic question was this: if you shoot somebody, can you love again afterwards?"

Siniša Gacić • Director of Daughter of Camorra

We spoke to Slovenian director Siniša Gacić to get the lowdown on his Sarajevo Documentary Competition entry Daughter of Camorra  

23/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Documentary Competition

Cătălin Mitulescu  • Director of Heidi

“In any story, age has a weight”

Cătălin Mitulescu • Director of Heidi

We chatted about love as a tango and unbalanced relationships with Romanian director Cătălin Mitulescu, whose newest feature, Heidi, is now competing at...  

22/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Radu Dragomir  • Director of Mo

“All I wanted was to tell a credible story”

Radu Dragomir • Director of Mo

Romanian director Radu Dragomir invites us behind the closed doors of Mo, his first feature currently screening in competition at Sarajevo  

21/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova  • Directors of Cat in the Wall

“We wanted to create a bridge between the East and the West to check if the grass was greener on the other side”

Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova • Directors of Cat in the Wall

We chatted to Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova, who are showing their first fiction feature, Cat in the Wall, at Sarajevo after a world premiere at Locarno  

21/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Christina Lindberg  • Actress

“I wanted to be more than just my body”

Christina Lindberg • Actress

Cineuropa met up with Christina Lindberg, the Swedish superstar of “artsploitation”, in Poland as she presented her cult 1973 erotic drama Anita: Swedish...  

21/08/2019 | New Horizons 2019

Simon Bird • Director of Days of the Bagnold Summer

“This is a film about two ordinary people who would never usually have a movie made about their lives”

Simon Bird • Director of Days of the Bagnold Summer

Cineuropa met up with British director Simon Bird on the afternoon of the Piazza Grande world premiere of his debut film, Days of the Bagnold Summer  

21/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Piazza Grande

Florenc Papas • Director of Open Door

"Albania is a male-dominated society; women suffer a lot of inequality, especially in rural areas, and I care about these characters"

Florenc Papas • Director of Open Door

Albanian-born filmmaker Florenc Papas took a moment to dissect his feature debut, Open Door, which is world-premiering at the Sarajevo Film Festival  

20/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Stephan Komandarev • Director of Rounds

"This film aims to diagnose the sickness in our society, to show the problems and to prompt the audience to search for the answer"

Stephan Komandarev • Director of Rounds

Bulgarian director Stephan Komandarev unpicked his latest feature, Rounds, centring on three pairs of police officers on patrol in Sofia over the course of...  

19/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Ines Tanović • Director of The Son

"I wanted the viewer to understand the system of the life we are living because I think people in Western Europe don't really understand Bosnia"

Ines Tanović • Director of The Son

We sat down with Bosnian filmmaker Ines Tanović to discuss her second feature, The Son, a truly generational film screening at Sarajevo  

19/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Basil Da Cunha  • Director of O fim do mundo

"I didn’t arrive in Reboleira thinking ‘I’m a director’. I was first accepted and respected as a person"

Basil Da Cunha • Director of O fim do mundo

Swiss and Portuguese director Basil Da Cunha tells us about his latest film O fim do mundo, screened in competition at Locarno  

19/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Fabrice du Welz • Director of Adoration

"I’m an intuitive filmmaker. I work like a primitive, in the moment”

Fabrice du Welz • Director of Adoration

Cineuropa met up with Fabrice du Welz, on the occasion of the world premiere of his new film, Adoration, on the Piazza Grande in Locarno  

16/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Piazza Grande

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