Interviews

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

8411 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 06/09/2025. 646 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Imran Perretta • Director of Ish

“I know exactly when I lost my innocence: it was when I was first dragged into the back of a police car”

Imran Perretta • Director of Ish

VENICE 2025: The British director shares the harsh personal resonance of his debut feature, whilst mulling the beauty of its outer-London locations  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Mihai Mincan • Director of Milk Teeth

“What I’ve tried to do is not make some kind of ‘autobiographical memory’ film, but rather convey a feeling of loneliness”

Mihai Mincan • Director of Milk Teeth

VENICE 2025: The Romanian director talks about blending historical reality, childhood memories and the weight of silence  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Valérie Donzelli • Director of At Work

“This film had to be honest”

Valérie Donzelli • Director of At Work

VENICE 2025: Freedom doesn’t come cheap in the French director’s new feature, but it’s still worth all the trouble  

30/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Jaume Claret Muxart • Director of Strange River

“It's an educational film: about desire and sexuality”

Jaume Claret Muxart • Director of Strange River

VENICE 2025: The debuting Catalan filmmaker talks to us about his first feature, shot on 16 mm while cycling along the Danube with his family, with sexual...  

30/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Tereza Nvotová • Director of Father

“What got me intrigued, even obsessed, was that moment when everything turns and you’re dropped into a parallel universe”

Tereza Nvotová • Director of Father

VENICE 2025: The Slovak director takes on a macabre subject, following a decent man and father into a spiral of horror, after a memory lapse changes his and...  

29/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Caroline Deruas Peano • Director of Stereo Girls

"I didn't want to have a bird's-eye view of adolescence, but to dive right into it"

Caroline Deruas Peano • Director of Stereo Girls

VENICE 2025: The French filmmaker explains her bold choices in her treatment of a story of teenage friendship that is as intensely joyful as it is terribly...  

29/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics' Week

Yegor Troyanovsky • Director of Cuba & Alaska

"My film is a portrait of friendship during wartime"

Yegor Troyanovsky • Director of Cuba & Alaska

The Ukrainian director reflects on the challenges of filming in an active war zone and the urgent need to preserve human connection through cinema  

29/08/2025 | Sarajevo 2025 | Documentary Competition

Dalija Dozet • Director of My Dad’s Lessons

"My idea was to explore what is left behind in the hundred hours of footage my father obsessively filmed"

Dalija Dozet • Director of My Dad’s Lessons

The Croatian director discusses her film, an intimate dialogue across time, as she uses the archive to reflect on memory, loss, and everything left unsaid  

29/08/2025 | Sarajevo 2025 | Documentary Competition

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of Mother

"I have always wanted to make Mother Teresa a punk icon"

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of Mother

VENICE 2025: We met up with the Macedonian-born, Belgian-based filmmaker to talk about her new film, an anti-biopic of Mother Teresa  

28/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Aleksandra Božović • Head of Industry, Montenegro Film Rendezvous

“We provide a kind of stability and enthusiasm to bring new life to European cinema”

Aleksandra Božović • Head of Industry, Montenegro Film Rendezvous

Cineuropa spoke to the industry head about the importance of exchange between the Montenegrin and broader European film industries  

28/08/2025 | /Montenegro

Renátó Olasz • Director of Stars of Little Importance

"My aim was to combine a poetic attitude with the rawness of reality"

Renátó Olasz • Director of Stars of Little Importance

Shot in stark black and white, the director's debut feature eschews traditional narrative structures in favour of mood, atmosphere and subtle gesture  

28/08/2025 | Sarajevo 2025 | Competition

Urška Djukić • Director of Little Trouble Girls

“There was something about hearing the voices of these young girls, right on the edge of becoming women, that felt incredibly important”

Urška Djukić • Director of Little Trouble Girls

The rising director delves into the background and themes of her film set amongst a Slovenian girls’ choir, which is one of the year’s most impressive debuts  

27/08/2025 | /Slovenia/Italy/Croatia/Serbia

Srđan Vuletić • Director of Otter

"Our movie encourages you to accept that the only superpower you have is yourself"

Srđan Vuletić • Director of Otter

Between resistance and imagination, the director's new film traces a tender coming-of-age process in the shadow of loss  

27/08/2025 | Sarajevo 2025 | Competition

Katalin Bársony • Director of I Saw a 'Suno'

"The viewpoint of Romani refugee Nasmi and his journey could potentially sensitise people and enable them to feel with us"

Katalin Bársony • Director of I Saw a 'Suno'

Through vérité scenes and quiet moments, the director crafts an intimate portrait of displacement, identity and the hope of reunion  

27/08/2025 | Sarajevo 2025 | Documentary Competition

Tamta Gabrichidze, Rusudan Chumbadze • Co-founders, WineCast Festival

“We chose to focus the feature-film section on Georgian cinema, to support our industry and give audiences access to films still circulating at festivals”

Tamta Gabrichidze, Rusudan Chumbadze • Co-founders, WineCast Festival

The duo break down their shared vision of creating a meeting point between two emblematic traditions: cinema and Georgian wine  

27/08/2025 | /Georgia

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