Interviews

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

8500 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 03/11/2025. 654 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Nenad Dukić  • Programmer, European Film Festival Palić

“Fostering young talents is one of the aims of any festival”

Nenad Dukić • Programmer, European Film Festival Palić

We sat down with Nenad Dukić, a programmer for European Film Festival Palić, one of the most prominent events in the Balkan region  

24/07/2019 | Palić 2019

Alexe Poukine • Director of That Which Does Not Kill

"Most of my female friends have told me they’ve had a similar experience"

Alexe Poukine • Director of That Which Does Not Kill

Cinergie met with director Alexe Poukine to talk about her second feature film, That Which Does Not Kill , unveiled in competition at the Visions du Réel...  

23/07/2019

Interviews at the unveiling of the 2019 LUX Prize Official Selection

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Interviews at the unveiling of the 2019 LUX Prize Official Selection

Director Benedikt Erlingsson, MEP Helga Trüpel and journalist Barbara Majsa talked to us at the LUX Prize Official Selection unveiling during the 54th...  

18/07/2019 | LUX Prize 2019

Lili Hinstin • Artistic director, Locarno Film Festival

"I want the Locarno Film Festival to be very free in its choices"

Lili Hinstin • Artistic director, Locarno Film Festival

We met with Locarno Film Festival's new artistic director Lili Hinstin to discuss the 72nd edition of the event, as well as her ambitions for the festival...  

18/07/2019 | Locarno 2019

Marta Lallana, Ivet Castelo • Directors of Ojos Negros

"We feel connected to films from another time"

Marta Lallana, Ivet Castelo • Directors of Ojos Negros

We caught up with the very young filmmakers Marta Lallana and Ivet Castelo who were honoured in the Zonazine section of the recent Malaga Film Festival for...  

18/07/2019

Pavol Pekarčík • Director of Silent Days

“The intention was to create a photograph containing a film within itself”

Pavol Pekarčík • Director of Silent Days

Slovakian filmmaker Pavol Pekarčík talks to Cineuropa about Silent Days, portraying a marginalised group within a marginalised group, authenticity and the...  

18/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | East of the West

Fabian Maubach, Jochen Laube • Producers, Sommerhaus Filmproduktion

“We are not interested in producing films according to the book”

Fabian Maubach, Jochen Laube • Producers, Sommerhaus Filmproduktion

German Films talked to producers Jochen Laube and Fabian Maubach about their work through their outfit Sommerhaus Filmproduktion  

18/07/2019

Christian Alvart • Director of Dogs of Berlin

“The film has to have a voice“

Christian Alvart • Director of Dogs of Berlin

Coming off the successful Netflix series Dogs of Berlin, Christian Alvart talks to German Films about his past, current and future projects  

16/07/2019

GoCritic! Interview: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov  • Directors of The Father

"The basis of the story was something very sad, which could happen to anyone. That's why we decided to try to tell it in a funnier way"

GoCritic! Interview: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov • Directors of The Father

14/07/2019 | GoCritic! | Karlovy Vary 2019

GoCritic! Interview: Felipe Ríos   • Director of The Man of the Future

"A daughter who doesn't succeed in connecting with her father can serve as an example of how a society works"

GoCritic! Interview: Felipe Ríos • Director of The Man of the Future

We chatted with the Chilean filmmaker in Karlovy Vary, where he premiered his intimate first feature  

14/07/2019 | GoCritic! | Karlovy Vary 2019

GoCritic! Interview: Vladimír Smutný   • Recepient of the KVIFF President Award

“Sometimes I wonder whether things have got better or worse”

GoCritic! Interview: Vladimír Smutný • Recepient of the KVIFF President Award

13/07/2019 | GoCritic! | Karlovy Vary 2019

Damjan Kozole • Director of Half-Sister

“This is a story about the transfer of hatred from generation to generation”

Damjan Kozole • Director of Half-Sister

We chatted to Slovenian filmmaker Damjan Kozole, whose latest film, Half-Sister, world-premiered in competition at this year's Karlovy Vary  

11/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Competition

Martin Mareček • Director of Over The Hills

"This might be a film about man's search for his inner woman"

Martin Mareček • Director of Over The Hills

Czech filmmaker Martin Mareček talked to us about Over The Hills, which was world-premiered in the Documentary Competition at Karlovy Vary  

10/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Documentary Competition

Ivan Zachariáš • Director of The Sleepers

"It's easier to write characters when they are strong and not quite passive"

Ivan Zachariáš • Director of The Sleepers

HBO mini-series The Sleepers was presented out of competition at Karlovy Vary, and we met up with its director Ivan Zachariáš to discuss it  

10/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Out of Competition

Miguel Llansó  • Director of Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway

"If the preference is for something successful, rather than something risky, then we have a problem as a species"

Miguel Llansó • Director of Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway

We chatted to Spanish director Miguel Llansó after he premiered his new feature Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway in Neuchâtel  

10/07/2019 | NIFFF 2019

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