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.

 
Telmo Esnal  • Director

“We wanted to turn tradition on its head”

Telmo Esnal • Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2018: Basque director Telmo Esnal presents Dantza, the winning film at last year’s inaugural edition of the Glocal in Progress industry...  

25/09/2018 | San Sebastián 2018 | Special Presentations

Benjamín Naishtat  • ​​Director

"I want film to be an almost physical experience”

Benjamín Naishtat • ​​Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2018: Argentina's Benjamín Naishtat talks about his third film, Rojo, a co-production between various Latin American and European countries...  

25/09/2018 | San Sebastián 2018 | Competition

Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Isabel Peña  • Director, screenwriter

"We took the risk of talking about this issue because society is more and more ready for it"

Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Isabel Peña • Director, screenwriter

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2018: Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen and co-writer Isabel Peña talk about The Realm, which is bringing Spain’s political corruption scandal into...  

24/09/2018 | San Sebastián 2018 | Competition

Louis Garrel  • Director of A Faithful Man

“Because I’m French, I wanted to make a film about men and women”

Louis Garrel • Director of A Faithful Man

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2018: We chatted to French filmmaker Louis Garrel about his second feature, A Faithful Man, revolving around a passive individual caught in a...  

24/09/2018 | San Sebastián 2018 | Competition

Olivier Masset-Depasse  • ​​Director

"I'm the kind of filmmaker that tries to create a different style of film each time"

Olivier Masset-Depasse • ​​Director

TORONTO 2018: Belgian director Olivier Masset-Depasse returns with his third feature Mothers' Instinct, and we talked to him about it  

21/09/2018 | Toronto 2018 | Special Presentations

Baldvin Z  • Director

“I realised that there was a whole world in Iceland that I didn’t know about”

Baldvin Z • Director

TORONTO 2018: We sat down with Icelandic director Baldvin Z to get some inside information on his latest feature, the bleak and emotive Let Me Fall  

21/09/2018 | Toronto 2018 | Contemporary World Cinema

Soudade Kaadan  • Director

“You don’t know how much you are traumatised until you leave”

Soudade Kaadan • Director

TORONTO 2018: We chatted to French-born Syrian director Soudade Kaadan about her Lion of the Future-winning The Day I Lost My Shadow, which also screened in...  

21/09/2018 | Toronto 2018 | Discovery

Nawara Shoukry  • Cinema and distribution manager, Zawya Cinema and Distribution

“Commercially produced titles tend to fall short on the artistic front”

Nawara Shoukry • Cinema and distribution manager, Zawya Cinema and Distribution

At the Venice Film Festival, where she attended a training seminar organised by CICAE, we talked to Nawara Shoukry about film distribution in Egypt  

20/09/2018

Anita Stojcheska  • Senior associate for film production, Macedonian Film Agency

"A broader co-production with more countries involved is always a better solution"

Anita Stojcheska • Senior associate for film production, Macedonian Film Agency

We spoke to the Macedonian Film Agency’s Anita Stojcheska at Oldenburg about why international producers should work with co-production companies from Macedonia  

20/09/2018

Magnus Meyer Arnesen • Director of As I Fall

"Sometimes something seemingly insignificant can change everything, for better or worse"

Magnus Meyer Arnesen • Director of As I Fall

Norwegian director Magnus Meyer Arnesen talks to us about As I Fall, his somewhat controversial first feature film  

20/09/2018

Marija Kavtaradzė • Director of Summer Survivors

"I send my love to those people who see themselves or their loved ones in our characters"

Marija Kavtaradzė • Director of Summer Survivors

We chatted to Lithuanian director-scriptwriter Marija Kavtaradzė about her feature debut, Summer Survivors, which tackles mental-health issues from a...  

19/09/2018 | Toronto 2018 | Discovery

James Marsh  • Director

“It felt great that we could acknowledge actors at the end of their careers”

James Marsh • Director

We chatted to British director James Marsh about his new film, King of Thieves, about the Hatton Garden robbery of 2015, which is out now in UK cinemas  

18/09/2018

Darko Štante  • Director

“I'm very interested in the mentality of Slovenian society”

Darko Štante • Director

TORONTO 2018: Cineuropa spoke to Slovenian filmmaker Darko Štante, whose feature debut, Consequences, world-premiered in Toronto's Discovery section  

18/09/2018 | Toronto 2018 | Discovery

Franco di Sarro • CEO, Nexo Digital

"Art at the cinema, TV series previews and live events in order to grow the market"

Franco di Sarro • CEO, Nexo Digital

We speak to Franco di Sarro about the business model of Nexo Digital, the film event sector’s leading Italian company  

18/09/2018

Camilla Strøm Henriksen • Director

“The children give us a strong feeling of hope at the end”

Camilla Strøm Henriksen • Director

TORONTO 2018: Norway’s Camilla Strøm Henriksen makes a Scandinavian tradition untraditional in her feature debut, Phoenix  

17/09/2018 | Toronto 2018 | Discovery

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