Interviews

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

8288 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 01/07/2025. 664 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Catharine Des Forges • Director, Independent Cinema Office

"Being business minded will enable you to be creative"

Catharine Des Forges • Director, Independent Cinema Office

Independent Cinema Office director Catharine Des Forges talks to Cineuropa about the exhibition sector's challenges and opportunities  

04/05/2016

Camille Neel  • Exporter

"Purchases are made based on the intrinsic marketing of the film"

Camille Neel • Exporter

The trump cards of the line-up for Cannes and decoding market trends with Camille Neel, director of international sales at Le Pacte  

04/05/2016

Charles Tesson  • General Delegate of Critics’ Week

"I’m drawn to films that come from where you don’t expect them to"

Charles Tesson • General Delegate of Critics’ Week

Charles Tesson, the General Delegate of Critics’ Week at Cannes, comments on his selection for 2016  

03/05/2016

Ondřej Hudeček  • Director

"We want to take a different route and make a contemporary, entertaining piece of cinema"

Ondřej Hudeček • Director

Cineuropa sat down with emerging Czech filmmaker Ondřej Hudeček to talk about his ambitious feature debut, Bohemian Rhapsody, at the new Czech Film...  

29/04/2016

Isa Campo, Isaki Lacuesta  • Directors

“We’ve been working together our entire lives”

Isa Campo, Isaki Lacuesta • Directors

Isa Campo and Isaki Lacuesta try their hand at a psychological thriller in their new venture, The Next Skin, a Spanish-Swiss co-production starring Emma...  

29/04/2016

Carles Torras  • Director

“I get swept along by my intuition”

Carles Torras • Director

Catalan director Carles Torras is presenting Callback in competition at Málaga, a gritty, hard-hitting, devastatingly violent English-language film set in...  

28/04/2016

Tolga Karaçelik • Director

“Who remains at the top of the hierarchy when we don’t need it anymore?”

Tolga Karaçelik • Director

Cineuropa sat down with Turkish director Tolga Karaçelik to discuss his film Ivy, winner of the Cineuropa Prize at the Lecce European Film Festival  

28/04/2016

Olmo Omerzu  • Director

“I believe I can afford a more experimental approach”

Olmo Omerzu • Director

Cineuropa caught up with director Olmo Omerzu at Finále Plzeň, where the filmmaker was presenting his latest project in development, Jackdaws on the Road  

28/04/2016

Kike Maíllo  • Director

“A colourful noir can turn out to be really interesting”

Kike Maíllo • Director

Kike Maíllo is opening the official section of the 19th Málaga Spanish Film Festival with Toro, his new thriller, screening out of competition  

21/04/2016

Svetla Tsotsorkova  • Director

“The audience has lost their trust in the films we make here”

Svetla Tsotsorkova • Director

Already selected at several film festivals ahead of its world premiere at San Sebastián, Bulgarian filmmaker Svetla Tsotsorkova’s Thirst is being released...  

21/04/2016

Erik Skjoldbjærg • Director

"How can you live unconventionally, within a predefined context that implicitly excludes you?"

Erik Skjoldbjærg • Director

Norwegian filmmaker Erik Skjoldbjærg drew inspiration from one of Norwegian author Gaute Heivoll’s novels for his latest feature film, Pyromaniac  

21/04/2016

Mantas Kvedaravicius • Director

“I have faith in the residents of Mariupol”

Mantas Kvedaravicius • Director

Cineuropa talks to Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, whose most recent documentary, Mariupolis, took home an award at Vilnius and is now showing at...  

20/04/2016

Krzysztof Zanussi  • Director

"Certainty is always a dangerous thing”

Krzysztof Zanussi • Director

We caught up with Polish master filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi to talk about Foreign Body at the 17th Lecce European Film Festival, where he was awarded the...  

20/04/2016

Audrius Stonys • Director

Showing the invisible

Audrius Stonys • Director

An interview with Lithuanian film director Audrius Stonys, who is the centre of a special focus at the Visions du Réel Festival  

18/04/2016

João Salaviza  • Director

"Bodies have a story to tell"

João Salaviza • Director

Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker João Salaviza looks back at the experience of making his feature debut, Mountain  

18/04/2016

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