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.

 
Lasse Saarinen  • CEO, Finnish Film Foundation

“I don’t make promises I’m not sure I can keep”

Lasse Saarinen • CEO, Finnish Film Foundation

Cineuropa went to Helsinki to talk to Lasse Saarinen, the chief executive officer of the Finnish Film Foundation, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary...  

25/06/2019

GoCritic! Interview: Nancy Denney-Phelps  • Animation journalist and historian

"I like to give positive press to good films"

GoCritic! Interview: Nancy Denney-Phelps • Animation journalist and historian

GoCritic! interviews a critic - an omnipresent figure in the world of animation, and one of the first journalists to focus on this specific niche form  

24/06/2019 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2019

Leonardo Mouramateus  • Director of Antonio One Two Three

“I don’t even remember what image I had of my films before making them”

Leonardo Mouramateus • Director of Antonio One Two Three

Two years after its first screening, in Rotterdam, Leonardo Mouramateus’ Antonio One Two Three premieres where it all began, in Lisbon; we chatted to him...  

24/06/2019

Eileen Byrne  • Director of Touch Me

“I was absolutely amazed by the connection my actors had and the emotions that were already palpable”

Eileen Byrne • Director of Touch Me

As her short film Touch Me prepared to screen at EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary, we caught up with Luxembourg-born filmmaker Eileen Byrne to talk about it  

24/06/2019 | Future Frames 2019

Lun Sevnik  • Director of Playing

“I am not really a fan of ‘hope’, but I will be glad if the film can open up discussion”

Lun Sevnik • Director of Playing

As his Czech short film Playing prepared to screen at EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary, we caught up with Slovenian director Lun Sevnik to talk about it  

21/06/2019 | Future Frames 2019

Pamela Tola • Director of Ladies of Steel

“I have forced myself to face my own fears”

Pamela Tola • Director of Ladies of Steel

Cineuropa talked to one of Finland’s most recognisable actresses about her second feature film as a director, Ladies of Steel, currently in production  

20/06/2019

Irfan Avdić  • Director of Precious

"The fact I went out and studied film and theatre directing, and not law, engineering, economy or medicine, was a somewhat irresponsible gamble"

Irfan Avdić • Director of Precious

As his short film Precious prepared to screen at EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary, we caught up with Bosnian filmmaker Irfan Avdić to talk about it  

20/06/2019 | Future Frames 2019

GoCritic! Interview: José Luis Ágreda  • Art director of Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

“We didn’t want to embellish anything”

GoCritic! Interview: José Luis Ágreda • Art director of Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

GoCritic! talked to the art director of Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, which screened at Animafest Zagreb and was awarded at Annecy  

19/06/2019 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2019

Gregor Valentovič  • Director of Kid

“There’s beauty in the small details we tend to overlook”

Gregor Valentovič • Director of Kid

As his short film Kid prepared to screen at EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary, we caught up with Slovak filmmaker Gregor Valentovič to talk about it  

19/06/2019 | Future Frames 2019

Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre  • Director of The Mustang

“It is by taking root in reality that I manage to create fiction”

Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre • Director of The Mustang

French director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre tells us about her debut feature, The Mustang, shot in the United States, first screened at Sundance, and now out...  

19/06/2019

Jonatan Etzler  • Director of Get Ready With Me

"Film is a powerful tool, and now suddenly we’re in a time of social media when everybody’s a filmmaker"

Jonatan Etzler • Director of Get Ready With Me

As his short film Get Ready With Me prepared to screen at EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary, we caught up with Swedish filmmaker Jonatan Etzler to talk...  

18/06/2019 | Future Frames 2019

David Duponchel  • Director, Al Este Film Festival, Lima

"The main objective is to keep putting on the festival and continue to grow as we have done so far"

David Duponchel • Director, Al Este Film Festival, Lima

We met up with David Duponchel, director of the Al Este Central and Eastern European Film Festival, to take stock of the first decade of the gathering’s...  

18/06/2019 | Al Este 2019

Orwa Nyrabia  • Artistic director, IDFA

"This is not us being nice, smart and progressive; this is us surviving"

Orwa Nyrabia • Artistic director, IDFA

We sat down with IDFA artistic director Orwa Nyrabia to get the low-down on the raft of changes that have just been announced for the upcoming edition  

17/06/2019 | IDFA 2019

Myriam Achard • Chief, New Media Partnerships and PR, Centre Phi

"We actively look to put our experience to good use by projecting it outwards"

Myriam Achard • Chief, New Media Partnerships and PR, Centre Phi

We met with the woman who plays a key role in exporting the expertise acquired by Montreal’s Phi Centre in the field of virtual reality: Myriam Achard  

17/06/2019

Ben Gibson  • Director, DFFB

“DFFB is consistently capturing real audiences for real filmmaking”

Ben Gibson • Director, DFFB

We sat down with British film producer Ben Gibson to chat about his experience so far as head of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB)  

14/06/2019

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