Interviews

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

8313 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 11/07/2025. 654 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Nikita Lavretski • Director of Ulysses

“I spent a year watching nearly 1,000 hours of this footage and ultimately only used about 1% for the final film”

Nikita Lavretski • Director of Ulysses

The Belarusian director talks about transforming video diaries into a structured narrative and drawing up a psychological map of Minsk  

05/11/2024 | Jihlava 2024

Nadia Cortellessa • Programmer, NaNo Film Festival

“It’s still a burning issue: how can we really go about adapting to the needs of new generations?”

Nadia Cortellessa • Programmer, NaNo Film Festival

The Neapolitan festival programmer took part in the workshop on “festival identities” held at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival  

04/11/2024 | Jihlava 2024

Filip Remunda • Director of Happiness to All

“The story encapsulates the rise of Putinism and populism, and the false hopes of the 21st century”

Filip Remunda • Director of Happiness to All

Cineuropa spoke to the Ji.hlava winner about the challenges of filming in Russia, discovering his eccentric protagonist and the dynamics of observational...  

04/11/2024 | Jihlava 2024

Thomas Riedelsheimer • Director of Tracing Light

“Light is the language of the universe – it holds all the information about everything from all times within it”

Thomas Riedelsheimer • Director of Tracing Light

The German documentarian talks about light and our inability to understand it with our brains or describe it with words, on the occasion of the premiere of...  

31/10/2024 | DOK Leipzig 2024

Raimon Valls • Director of Mai parlarem de nosaltres

“I was interested in talking about friendship, but most of all, about the cowardice and shame we sometimes feel when we reveal our most vulnerable feelings"

Raimon Valls • Director of Mai parlarem de nosaltres

The Catalan director talks about the researching and creation of his debut film  

31/10/2024 | Valencia 2024

Laila Pakalnina • Director of Termini

"Editing in documentaries is like writing a poem, it's intuitive"

Laila Pakalnina • Director of Termini

Latvia's cinematic visionary talks about her observational approach and camera movements in her latest oeuvre while currently working on two other films  

31/10/2024 | Jihlava 2024

Lucía Casañ Rodríguez • Director of A Bathroom of One's Own

“The film questions how we behave in public and private spaces through something as universal as the bathroom”

Lucía Casañ Rodríguez • Director of A Bathroom of One's Own

The director talks about her first feature film, about a housewife who finds in her own home a refuge to escape from her life and write  

29/10/2024 | Valencia 2024

Catalina Villar • Director of Ana Rosa

“Eighty-five percent of lobotomies in the world were done on women, and that deserved a film”

Catalina Villar • Director of Ana Rosa

The Colombian director talks about her documentary, in which she asks why her grandmother received a lobotomy, exploring the psychiatry and society of that time  

29/10/2024 | /France/Colombia

Antonella Sudasassi Furniss • Director of Memories of a Burning Body

“I would love it if the film invited us to revisit our female lineage”

Antonella Sudasassi Furniss • Director of Memories of a Burning Body

The Costa Rican director talks about her second feature, in which she delves into the private lives and sexuality of women who have been oppressed all their...  

28/10/2024 | /Costa Rica/Spain

Marta Nieto • Director and actress of Becoming Ana

“Motherhood is a beautiful and dangerous place”

Marta Nieto • Director and actress of Becoming Ana

The actress, who is making her feature film directing debut, comments on her debut feature film, which she also stars in, such as the laboriousness of...  

24/10/2024 | Seminci 2024

Ioanna Panagiotidou • Distributor, Rosebud.21

“We love using films as inspiration for creative and innovative marketing campaigns”

Ioanna Panagiotidou • Distributor, Rosebud.21

The distributor spoke about her outfit’s business model, two recent successful campaigns and the peculiarities of the Hellenic market, among other topics  

24/10/2024 | Distributor of the Month

Mario Bova • Director, Euro Balkan Film Festival

“The festival was born as a response to the challenges faced by the film industry, focusing directly on the growth of co-productions and distribution”

Mario Bova • Director, Euro Balkan Film Festival

The president of the Associazione Occhio Blu and director of Rome's festival dedicated to cinema hailing from the Balkans, talks to us about its new edition  

24/10/2024 | /Italy

Marek Hovorka • Director, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

“Our goal is to place films from Central and Eastern Europe within the broader context of global cinema”

Marek Hovorka • Director, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

The festival director discusses the expansion of the gathering and its growing industry focus on fostering collaborations between European and Southeast...  

24/10/2024 | Jihlava 2024

Sébastien Hussenot • Producer of The Woman Sitting in the Corridor

“The plot centres on a woman who discovers, through transitional justice, the truth about her family history during the Ben Ali years”

Sébastien Hussenot • Producer of The Woman Sitting in the Corridor

Cineuropa met the producer from French company La Luna Productions, who discussed the project of Tunisian director Lotfi Achour  

23/10/2024 | Cinemed 2024 | Cinemed Meetings

Manuela Buono • Producer of Intra montes

“What’s important is to propose a language that illuminates our contemporary world, even if it is a historical film”

Manuela Buono • Producer of Intra montes

Cineuropa met the producer from Italian company Slingshot Film who discussed Alberto Diana’s project  

23/10/2024 | Cinemed 2024 | Cinemed Meetings

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