Interviews

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

8365 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 26/08/2025. 658 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Eszter Angyalosy • Head of Studies, TFL SeriesLab

“I think it's a false promise to tell somebody that all you need is a great idea, you need much more than that to make it in this industry”

Eszter Angyalosy • Head of Studies, TFL SeriesLab

Cineuropa talked to the Hungarian screenwriter and story editor about the characteristics and innovations of the TorinoFilmLab programme dedicated to TV...  

22/11/2024 | TorinoFilmLab 2024

Myrid Carten • Director of A Want in Her

“People are often powerless over their issues, but there are ways in which we can make excuses for it as well”

Myrid Carten • Director of A Want in Her

The Irish artist and filmmaker talks about turning a critical lens on her mother and herself in her first feature-length documentary  

21/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Björn Stein • Director of Whiskey on the Rocks

“'Are you interested in humour?' producer Henrik Jansson-Schweizer asked. I read five pages and was good to go”

Björn Stein • Director of Whiskey on the Rocks

The Swedish director breaks down his process of turning a 1981 Cold War story into a wacky satirical comedy  

20/11/2024 | Stockholm 2024

Carmen Trocker • Director of Personale

“This is the best way to talk about the expectations that tourists have and the workers who make it possible”

Carmen Trocker • Director of Personale

The first-time director talks about her simple yet effective visual and sonic approaches to her documentary, illuminating different forms of unseen labour  

20/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Jesper Ganslandt • Director of Cry Wolf

“I almost get restless if I don’t test out something new now and again”

Jesper Ganslandt • Director of Cry Wolf

The Swedish festival regular behind Falkenberg Farewell, The Ape and other more auteur-driven titles discusses his new crime series  

20/11/2024 | Stockholm 2024

Paulo Filipe Monteiro • Director of Clear Nights

“I wanted to make a film where dialogue came through the body as well as through words”

Paulo Filipe Monteiro • Director of Clear Nights

The Portuguese director chatted with us about his film, which broaches post-natal depression and coming out  

19/11/2024 | Lecce 2024

Piotr Winiewicz • Director of About a Hero

“What happens if, all of a sudden, this voice we trust is not trustworthy any more?”

Piotr Winiewicz • Director of About a Hero

The Copenhagen-based Polish director discusses the extensive process of making his film, adapted from a script written by a specially trained AI model  

19/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Stijn Bouma • Director of The Hunt for Meral O.

“I realised that as a society, we hadn’t understood what had happened at all: the devastation of lives”

Stijn Bouma • Director of The Hunt for Meral O.

The Dutch filmmaker explains why he wanted to transpose into fiction the dramatic, Kafkaesque story that opposed his country to many families forced into...  

19/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Michel Hazanavicius • Director of The Most Precious of Cargoes

“Each time, you gotta do your homework”

Michel Hazanavicius • Director of The Most Precious of Cargoes

The Academy Award-winning director talks about the wide range of his work and gives us an insight into the making of his animated film  

19/11/2024 | /France/Belgium

Bogdan Mureşanu • Director of The New Year That Never Came

“I wanted to make a ‘feel good’ movie”

Bogdan Mureşanu • Director of The New Year That Never Came

The filmmaker decrypts his virtuoso and joyful tragicomedy made of six intertwined stories over 24 hours, at the turn of the 1989 Romanian revolution  

18/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Marcin Koszałka • Director of White Courage

“What’s always interested me is people put in extraordinary circumstances”

Marcin Koszałka • Director of White Courage

The Polish filmmaker traces the genesis of a very ambitious film that blends together the great History and the small one, collaboration and resistance,...  

15/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Rashid Masharawi • Director of Passing Dreams

“Palestinians find themselves in absurd or ironic situations, and I think that laughing about it is also a form of resistance”

Rashid Masharawi • Director of Passing Dreams

The established filmmaker speaks about his bittersweet road movie centred on a boy who stubbornly follows a carrier pigeon across Palestine, believing it...  

15/11/2024 | Cairo 2024

Luigi Cozzi • Director

“Time is the only way of judging whether a movie is good, bad or useless”

Luigi Cozzi • Director

The Italian director, who is being celebrated at Finland’s Night Visions, talks about Dario Argento, sci-fi and his very own little shop of horrors  

15/11/2024 | /Italy

Lorna Tucker • Director of Garbo: Where Did You Go?

“I want to make sure that people can see that these gods that we create are terribly human”

Lorna Tucker • Director of Garbo: Where Did You Go?

The British director breaks down her third documentary on complex females who have inspired her  

15/11/2024 | Stockholm 2024

José Luis Alcaine • Director of photography

“In my line of work, one should never think that one knows everything already”

José Luis Alcaine • Director of photography

We chatted to the seasoned DoP, who has won an Honorary Mikeldi at Zinebi this year, about his career and what he views as the golden age of cinema  

15/11/2024 | Zinebi 2024

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