Interviews

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

8334 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 04/08/2025. 666 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Essam Zakarea • Artistic director, Cairo International Film Festival

“We’ve focused on selecting films that are artistically valuable and emotionally resonant, with stories that engage audiences”

Essam Zakarea • Artistic director, Cairo International Film Festival

The seasoned film critic, programmer and newly appointed artistic director of the Egyptian festival discusses practical challenges, programme highlights and...  

07/11/2024 | Cairo 2024

Dimitris Nakos • Director of Meat

“We have a foreigner who becomes a part of the family, and when times are tough, he becomes a foreigner again”

Dimitris Nakos • Director of Meat

The writer-director breaks down his Greek tragedy-inspired story of countryside life, elaborating on his stylistic choices and compelling characters  

07/11/2024 | Thessaloniki 2024

Mathieu Ripka • Director General, ARP

"Protecting independence is essential in order to safeguard creative freedom, which is our strength"

Mathieu Ripka • Director General, ARP

The ARP’s new director general responds to criticism over regulation and gives his view on takeovers of independent production companies by large groups  

07/11/2024 | ARP Film Meetings 2024

Volia Chajkouskaya • Founder and programme director, Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival

“Belarusian independent cinema, as well as the Belarusian cause overall, needs more exposure and attention”

Volia Chajkouskaya • Founder and programme director, Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival

During our chat, we explored the programme of the hybrid gathering, organised by filmmakers in exile and showcasing the best of Nordic-Baltic cinema to...  

06/11/2024 | /Belarus/Estonia

Petter Lindblad, Esben Toft Jacobsen • Delegate producer and writer-director of Millie and the Secret of the Crocodile

“The main thing is to get the story right, and see how emotional and funny we can make it”

Petter Lindblad, Esben Toft Jacobsen • Delegate producer and writer-director of Millie and the Secret of the Crocodile

The duo of Nordic creatives break down their upcoming animated feature, which snagged the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at Cinekid  

05/11/2024 | Cinekid 2024 | Cinekid for Professionals

Nikolaj Nikitin • Head programmer, Critics’ Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

“The selection this year is wonderfully colourful, diverse, surreal, action-packed and extremely funny”

Nikolaj Nikitin • Head programmer, Critics’ Picks, Tallinn Black Nights

We caught up with the head programmer of PÖFF’s strand dedicated to powerful and artistically outstanding works that might otherwise be overlooked  

05/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics’ Picks

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

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