Interviews

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

8288 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 01/07/2025. 664 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Julianna Ugrin  • Producer, Éclipse Film

"The boundaries between fiction and creative documentary are becoming less and less visible"

Julianna Ugrin • Producer, Éclipse Film

Hungarian producer Julianna Ugrin, of Éclipse Film, talks to us about her work and her selection for EFP’s Producers on the Move  

26/04/2019 | Producers on the Move 2019

Dome Karukoski  • Director of Tolkien

“Tolkien was his own antagonist”

Dome Karukoski • Director of Tolkien

Cineuropa talked to Finnish director Dome Karukoski about Tolkien, his English-language debut, starring Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins  

26/04/2019

Barbara Wurm  • Programmer, goEast Film Festival

“My primary interest is to address contemporary questions by looking back on film history”

Barbara Wurm • Programmer, goEast Film Festival

We chatted to Barbara Wurm, goEast Film Festival programmer and head of the festival’s Symposium section, to get the low-down on this year’s edition  

23/04/2019 | goEast 2019

Alexis Michalik  • Director of Edmond

“A costume drama which revolves around the theatre, but which moves at a lively pace”

Alexis Michalik • Director of Edmond

Alexis Michalik takes his first feature film, Edmond, to the Rendez-Vous French Film Festival in Rome ahead of its release in Italian cinemas on 18 April  

18/04/2019

Leonardo D’Agostini  • Director of The Champion

“Wanting to please at all costs can make you do the wrong thing”

Leonardo D’Agostini • Director of The Champion

Director Leonardo D’Agostini talks to us about his first work, The Champion, world-premiered at the Lecce European Film Festival  

18/04/2019 | Lecce 2019

Dragomir Sholev • Director of The Pig

“When you leave school, you realise that aggression is everywhere”

Dragomir Sholev • Director of The Pig

Bulgarian director Dragomir Sholev talks to us about his second feature film, The Pig, which was screened in competition at the 20th Lecce European Film...  

17/04/2019 | Lecce 2019

Laura Luchetti • Director of Twin Flower

“There’s no better way of expressing immense pain than through silence”

Laura Luchetti • Director of Twin Flower

We met with director Laura Luchetti at the 20th Lecce European Film Festival, where her film Twin Flower enjoyed a special event screening  

15/04/2019 | Lecce 2019

Francesco Rizzi • Director of Cronofobia

“For me, there has to be some kind of meaning behind a film’s mise en scène”

Francesco Rizzi • Director of Cronofobia

We chatted with Francesco Rizzi about his first feature film, Cronofobia, at the Lecce European Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Award and the...  

15/04/2019 | Lecce 2019

Mikko Aromaa  • Director, Night Visions

“It’s not just horror, horror, horror”

Mikko Aromaa • Director, Night Visions

With the spring edition of Helsinki’s Night Visions finally here, Cineuropa talks to festival director Mikko Aromaa about the biggest genre-focused film...  

11/04/2019

Richard Billingham  • Director of Ray & Liz

“I see this film a little bit as a love story”

Richard Billingham • Director of Ray & Liz

Cineuropa talked to Turner Prize-nominated artist Richard Billingham about his feature Ray & Liz, crowned Best European Debut at the 24th Vilnius Film Festival  

10/04/2019 | Vilnius 2019

Aistė Žegulytė  • Director of Animus Animalis

“We all have this desire to look the beast right in the eye”

Aistė Žegulytė • Director of Animus Animalis

Cineuropa talked to Lithuanian director Aistė Žegulytė about her debut feature-length documentary, Animus Animalis, winner of the Cineuropa Prize at the...  

08/04/2019 | Vilnius 2019

Chen Lizhi  • Producer, Spire Media

“I don’t think there is a single topic or genre that you can’t realise in China”

Chen Lizhi • Producer, Spire Media

Bridging the Dragon met up with Chen Lizhi, producer at Chinese outfit Spire Media, which was an associate producer on Zhang Yimou’s Shadow  

03/04/2019 | Bridging the Dragon 2019

Ben Stassen • Director of The Queen’s Corgi

“As soon as we announce another project in production, it’s as good as sold in 50 to 60 countries”

Ben Stassen • Director of The Queen’s Corgi

We met up with producer and director Ben Stassen, a pioneer of 3D who’s bringing out his 9th feature film, The Queen’s Corgi  

02/04/2019

Pieter-Jan de Pue and Vincent Metzinger  • Director and producer of Four Brothers

“I am not saying it will be a humorous film, but we do need some lightness in a deep, sad story”

Pieter-Jan de Pue and Vincent Metzinger • Director and producer of Four Brothers

Cineuropa talked to Pieter-Jan de Pue and Vincent Metzinger after they accepted the Eurimages Co-Production Award at this year’s CPH:FORUM for the...  

29/03/2019 | CPH:DOX 2019 | CPH:DOX Industry

Larry Bass  • CEO, ShinAwiL

“We will invest in strong local stories but produce them for an international audience”

Larry Bass • CEO, ShinAwiL

Cineuropa talked to Larry Bass, CEO of Irish production company ShinAwiL, about the launch of the company’s Drama division, its new TV series and its...  

29/03/2019 | Séries Mania 2019

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