Interviews

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

7477 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/03/2024. 581 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Rajko Grlić  • Director

"It's a mosaic of unpleasant questions for current Croatian society"

Rajko Grlić • Director

Croatian director Rajko Grlić's 12th feature film, The Constitution - Due insolite storie d'amore, world-premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival,...  

27/09/2016

Olivier Père  • Managing director, Arte France Cinéma

"Arthouse film is not just a school of thought"

Olivier Père • Managing director, Arte France Cinéma

Olivier Père, director of film acquisitions for Arte France, talks to us about the inaugural ArteKino Festival and analyses the current state of European...  

27/09/2016

Jonás Trueba  • Director

“I’ve moved closer to the very essence of film”

Jonás Trueba • Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2016: Spanish director Jonás Trueba spills the beans about his fourth film, The Reconquest, in competition for the coveted Golden Shell  

23/09/2016

William Oldroyd  • Director

“'Melodrama' in England is a dirty word”

William Oldroyd • Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2016: British filmmaker William Oldroyd has presented Lady Macbeth, a tale of a woman who will not accept what a corseted destiny has in store...  

23/09/2016

Juan Antonio Bayona  • Director

“A director needs to seek out and reveal the truth”

Juan Antonio Bayona • Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2016: J.A. Bayona, director of The Impossible, has premiered his third film, A Monster Calls, which once again boasts a huge budget and...  

22/09/2016

Nacho Vigalondo  • Director

“I like the fact that my film is always just about to erupt”

Nacho Vigalondo • Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2016: Daring filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo talks about the European screening of his Canadian co-production Colossal, an Anne Hathaway-starrer...  

21/09/2016

Nely Reguera  • Director

“I like to poke fun at myself”

Nely Reguera • Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2016: Catalan filmmaker Nely Reguera makes her full-length directorial debut with María (and Everybody Else); a comedy-drama starring a...  

20/09/2016

Sara Norberg  • Executive director, Helsinki International Film Festival

“We have found a good balance to our laid-back yet professional setting”

Sara Norberg • Executive director, Helsinki International Film Festival

We spoke to Sara Norberg about the fifth edition of the Finnish Film Affair, which will showcase films for buyers, festivals and the press  

19/09/2016

Rodrigo Sorogoyen • Director

“You have to reflect a frustration one way or another”

Rodrigo Sorogoyen • Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2016: Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen presents May God Save Us, a thriller starring Antonio de la Torre and Roberto ÁlamoBest Screenplay  

18/09/2016

Alberto Rodríguez • Director

“Every film is a world of its own”

Alberto Rodríguez • Director

SAN SEBASTIAN 2016: After the success of Marshland, Sevillan director Alberto Rodriguez is back with an ambitious political thriller, Smoke and Mirrors,...  

17/09/2016

Lukas Valenta Rinner • Director

“In the best-case scenario, the funny situations are also the most terrifying”

Lukas Valenta Rinner • Director

We met up with Austrian-born, Argentinian-based director Lukas Valenta Rinner, whose latest film, A Decent Woman, is another blunt, startling satire about...  

13/09/2016

Petr Vaclav  • Director

“The finished films I received grants for are only the tip of the iceberg”

Petr Vaclav • Director

Cineuropa sat down with Czech filmmaker Petr Vaclav on the occasion of the North American premiere of his latest feature, We Are Never Alone, at Toronto  

09/09/2016

Fred Castadot • President, Audiovisual Screenwriters’ Association (ASA)

“We can even call it a true revolution”

Fred Castadot • President, Audiovisual Screenwriters’ Association (ASA)

Meeting with Fred Castadot, the new president of the Belgian Audiovisual Screenwriters’ Association  

09/09/2016

Volkan Üce • Director

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Volkan Üce • Director

Meeting with the Belgian-Turk, Volkan Üce, the young director whose first documentary is named Displaced  

09/09/2016

Marie Brumagne, Bram Van Cauwenberghe • Directors

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Marie Brumagne, Bram Van Cauwenberghe • Directors

Meeting with Belgian directors Marie Brumagne and Bram Van Cauwenberghe, makers of the documentary Remember Your Name, Babylon  

09/09/2016

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