Interviews

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

8568 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 05/12/2025. 642 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Julie Rousson • General delegate, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

“If you cut short the beginning, how do you reach the end?”

Julie Rousson • General delegate, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

With the largest dedicated short-film festival in the world getting under way on 31 January, Cineuropa finds out more about the challenges currently faced...  

30/01/2025 | /France

Lauro Cress • Director of Impatience of the Heart

“I wanted to show that my protagonist wants to have a purpose in life; he wants to be part of something”

Lauro Cress • Director of Impatience of the Heart

The German director of the recent Max Ophüls Prize winner tells us more about his approach to his characters and how he went about casting the film  

29/01/2025 | Max Ophüls Prize 2025

Mathias Broe • Director of Sauna

“I wanted to be able to recognise what I experience myself in queer spaces, in intimate situations”

Mathias Broe • Director of Sauna

The Danish director lays out his community-centric approach to creating his first feature, a queer romance that also engages with Denmark’s social...  

28/01/2025 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Alireza Khatami • Director of The Things You Kill

“I wanted to break away from this cliché that every time you have to reflect, you have to go to a confined, dark space”

Alireza Khatami • Director of The Things You Kill

The Canadian-based Iranian director speaks to us about his cast, the emotional challenges he faced in making the film and his production process  

28/01/2025 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Amel Guellaty • Director of Where the Wind Comes From

“Road movies mostly use handheld cameras and natural light, but I wanted to go somewhere else that takes on the rules of the imagination”

Amel Guellaty • Director of Where the Wind Comes From

The Tunisian writer-director talks about blending the road-movie format with a free-spirited coming-of-age tale set across different parts of the country  

27/01/2025 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Cherien Dabis • Director of All That's Left of You

“One of my deepest desires with this film from the beginning has always been to create something that has the power to heal”

Cherien Dabis • Director of All That's Left of You

The Palestinian-Jordanian-US director talks about production design, family histories and generating narratives of healing amidst landscapes of trauma  

26/01/2025 | Sundance 2025 | Premieres

Nadia Fall • Director of Brides

“In film, it's very hard to represent social media poetically, without it feeling forced and a bit embarrassing”

Nadia Fall • Director of Brides

The British director unpicks her feature debut, which tells the story of two young women in search of what they think will be a better life  

25/01/2025 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Georgi M Unkovski • Director of DJ Ahmet

“One of the first images I had in my head was of this shepherd running into a techno rave in the forest”

Georgi M Unkovski • Director of DJ Ahmet

The Macedonian director spoke with us about the striking sonic inspirations behind his feature debut, leading to an inventive take on the coming-of-age genre  

24/01/2025 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Tarik Saleh • Director

"It’s our duty to ensure greater value is placed on film"

Tarik Saleh • Director

We met with the director behind The Nile Hilton Incident and Boy from Heaven, who’s also a member of the filmmakers’ jury at MyFrenchFilmFestival, while in...  

24/01/2025 | /Sweden/France

Edgardo Pistone • Director of Ciao bambino

“Adults are the biggest adversaries of freedom because they don’t let adolescents enjoy being carefree”

Edgardo Pistone • Director of Ciao bambino

We sat down with the Neapolitan director to discuss harmful inheritance, impossible love and non-places  

23/01/2025 | /Italy

Monica Felea, Stefan Bradea • Distributors, Bad Unicorn

“We’ve never lost our enthusiasm, nor our desire to share cinematic gems”

Monica Felea, Stefan Bradea • Distributors, Bad Unicorn

The two distributors speak about the Romanian market, the firm’s eclectic catalogue and their growing efforts to intercept young audiences  

22/01/2025 | Distributor of the Month

Chiara Fleischhacker • Director of Vena

“I went through pregnancy and childbirth myself for the first time, but had never seen it represented like this in cinema”

Chiara Fleischhacker • Director of Vena

The winner of the First Steps Award tells us about her motivation to tell this particular story and about her realistic approach to the topics it broaches  

22/01/2025 | /Germany

Fleur Fortuné • Director of The Assessment

“As a director, there's always the conscious aspects you bring with you as well as the unconscious you”

Fleur Fortuné • Director of The Assessment

The French music video director-turned-feature filmmaker talks about her debut film’s crucial component parts, including its talented core trio of actors  

21/01/2025 | Tromsø 2025

GoCritic! Interview: Zane Oborenko • Director of short film Kafka in Love

“All of this is about translation”

GoCritic! Interview: Zane Oborenko • Director of short film Kafka in Love

The Latvian animator discusses adaptation and romantic truths in relation to her short film inspired by Franz Kafka’s love letters to writer and journalist...  

16/01/2025 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2024

Louise Lindlar • Head, MOP-Industry

“What young filmmakers need the most is visibility”

Louise Lindlar • Head, MOP-Industry

The freshly appointed director of the Max Ophüls Prize’s industry strand breaks down the highlights of this year’s programme  

15/01/2025 | Max Ophüls Prize 2025 | MOP-Industry

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