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.

 
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

Alexandre Gavras • Producer of Bab El Sahra

“The films we’ve produced are about topics we’re not used to seeing, that are a bit out of the ordinary”

Alexandre Gavras • Producer of Bab El Sahra

Cineuropa met with the producer from KG Productions, who discussed Salim Brahimi’s project and the company’s other current endeavours  

23/10/2024 | Cinemed 2024 | Cinemed Meetings

Ahmed Shawky • Head, CineGouna Funding

“We are a place where you can get access to important platforms, and meet European distributors, festivals and labs”

Ahmed Shawky • Head, CineGouna Funding

The Egyptian film critic and FIPRESCI president, who is heading CineGouna Funding for the second year, tells us about the changes he has introduced  

23/10/2024 | El Gouna 2024

Liliana Torres • Director of Mamífera

“The lack of positive role models for women who don’t want to be mothers contributes to stigmatisation”

Liliana Torres • Director of Mamífera

The Spanish director talks about her latest film, an exploration of bodily, reproductive and social autonomy around women who don't want to be mothers  

23/10/2024 | Warsaw 2024

Milko Lazarov • Director of Tarika

“I've always been interested in mysticism more than ordinary relationships”

Milko Lazarov • Director of Tarika

The Bulgarian director breaks down his third feature, which wraps up a triptych exploring forces and meanings stemming from the invisible layers of human...  

22/10/2024 | CinÉast 2024

Christophe Leparc • Director, Cinemed

“At the Cinemed Meetings, we meet talented people we didn’t know before and whom it will be interesting to follow”

Christophe Leparc • Director, Cinemed

The impact of current conflicts, geographical trends and the birth of projects: the director of the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival walks us through...  

17/10/2024 | Cinemed 2024

Robert Budina • Director of Waterdrop

“We wanted to have a kind of anatomy of our society, but also of the relationship you have with your family, career, society and politics”

Robert Budina • Director of Waterdrop

The Albanian director shares the sociopolitical inspirations behind his latest film and its complex main character  

16/10/2024 | Warsaw 2024

Hayet Benkara • Head of the Nouveau Marché, Nouveau Cinéma Montréal

“Despite the shifts in the industry, auteur cinema still has a long life ahead of it”

Hayet Benkara • Head of the Nouveau Marché, Nouveau Cinéma Montréal

The head honcho of the Montreal-based industry gathering explains what makes it unique and what she envisions for the event in the next decade  

16/10/2024 | Nouveau Cinéma Montréal 2024 | Nouveau Marché

Élise Otzenberger, Cécile de France • Director and star of Call of Water

"I always felt something very spiritual and a bit mystic about [my] connection to water"

Élise Otzenberger, Cécile de France • Director and star of Call of Water

The director and star share their attraction to their film's thematic material and why connecting to their own childhoods was so important for this story  

15/10/2024 | Sitges 2024

Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas • Director of Luna

“The first thing I said was that we had to make a movie where they could never physically touch each other”

Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas • Director of Luna

The Spanish director talks about creating a film shot entirely with actors in spacesuits, drawing inspiration from independent work and making space magic...  

15/10/2024 | Sitges 2024

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