Interviews

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

8524 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 19/11/2025. 643 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Wojciech Smarzowski  • Director of Clergy

Clergy is like a constant dripping of water that wears away a stone”

Wojciech Smarzowski • Director of Clergy

Cineuropa chatted to Wojciech Smarzowski, the director of Clergy, which has just enjoyed a record-breaking opening in Polish cinemas  

09/10/2018

Mick Hannigan  • Festival co-director, IndieCork

“We have shown that we have a place within the ecosystem of the Irish film community”

Mick Hannigan • Festival co-director, IndieCork

We had a chat about the upcoming edition of the IndieCork Festival with Mick Hannigan, its co-director  

05/10/2018 | IndieCork 2018

Julian Schnabel  • Director

“I never wanted to get on the van Gogh boat”

Julian Schnabel • Director

Cineuropa talked to artist-director Julian Schnabel, the man behind At Eternity’s Gate, his latest film that centres on the twilight years of Vincent van Gogh  

05/10/2018 | Zurich 2018

Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny, Marcos Kantis • Producers

“We are always open for projects that are fun to work on”

Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny, Marcos Kantis • Producers

German Films talks to producers Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny and Marcos Kantis, of Berlin-based Schiwago Film, to learn more about them  

04/10/2018

Angela Schanelec • Director

“To understand a film means committing yourself to a process that leads beyond it”

Angela Schanelec • Director

German Films chats to director Angela Schanelec to get a better picture of her career and her approach to cinema  

04/10/2018

Annabel Jankel  • Director

“This film would not have been made by a man”

Annabel Jankel • Director

Fresh from its world premiere at Toronto, we chatted to London-born Annabel Jankel about Tell It to the Bees, her first feature since 1993’s Super Mario Bros.  

04/10/2018 | Zurich 2018

Marcus H Rosenmüller  • Director

“There were so many aspects that we could use to make this bigger than a football film”

Marcus H Rosenmüller • Director

We chatted to German director-screenwriter Marcus H Rosenmüller about his new drama, Trautmann, based on the life of the famous Manchester City goalkeeper  

04/10/2018 | Zurich 2018

Thomas Vinterberg  • Director

“This film was very far from what I normally do”

Thomas Vinterberg • Director

We sat down with Danish director Thomas Vinterberg to discuss his approach to his new movie, Kursk, which world-premiered at Toronto and is now playing at...  

04/10/2018 | Zurich 2018

Simon Jaquemet • Director

"I'm interested in exploring characters who are at war with themselves"

Simon Jaquemet • Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2018: We talked to Swiss director Simon Jaquemet about his second long-awaited feature film The Innocent, screened in competition at the festival  

04/10/2018 | San Sebastián 2018 | Competition

Paolo Virzì • Director

"A new generation of Italian cinema was born here in La Maddalena thanks to the Solinas Award"

Paolo Virzì • Director

We have met up with Paolo Virzì, who run a fun event with the public, followed by a screening of what went on behind the scenes of Magical Nights, at the...  

03/10/2018

Jean-Yves Bloch, Silvia Cibien, Maxime Lacour, William Page, Weerada Sucharitkul  • EuroVoD

"From now on, we will focus on promoting VoD in Europe and defending European audiovisual works"

Jean-Yves Bloch, Silvia Cibien, Maxime Lacour, William Page, Weerada Sucharitkul • EuroVoD

At the Venice Film Festival, Cineuropa met up with EuroVoD’s board of directors, who offered us some new perspectives on a market in a state of radical upheaval  

03/10/2018

Zviad Eliziani  • Manager, Batumi International Art-house Film Festival

"Georgia can be a perfect meeting point for film industries from the East and the West"

Zviad Eliziani • Manager, Batumi International Art-house Film Festival

We spoke to Batumi International Art-house Film Festival manager Zviad Eliziani about the Georgian gathering’s development and its future plans  

03/10/2018

Andrea Magnani • Director

"A quasi-dead person carrying around a dead person is a perfect metaphor to talk about suffering"

Andrea Magnani • Director

We met up with the director of Easy, Andrea Magnani, at Naples Film Festival, to talk about the birth of the first Italy-Ukraine co-production and his...  

02/10/2018

Xacio Baño • Director

"I didn't want to do things I'd already done with the shorts"

Xacio Baño • Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2018: Galician director Xacio Baño, one of the most respected voices in the Spanish short filmmaking scene, talks about his first feature, Trot  

02/10/2018 | San Sebastián 2018 | Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

Hadrian Marcu  • Director

“Once you have the right actors, the way you work with them becomes natural”

Hadrian Marcu • Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2018: Hadrian Marcu debuts as a feature-film director with A Decent Man, a smart, sensitive and confident work about a regular but troubled...  

01/10/2018 | San Sebastián 2018 | New Directors

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