Interviews

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

8293 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 02/07/2025. 662 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 

Creative Motor

Uli Aselmann • Producer, die film gmbh

Uli Aselmann tells German Films Quarterly about the production outfit die film gmbh, which he created in 1997  

12/12/2011

“If you think you can change the world with a movie, you're on the wrong track”

Michael Glawogger • Director

Cineuropa spoke with Austrian director Michael Glawogger after the screening of his documentary Whores’ Glory, in competition at the Gijón Film Festival  

08/12/2011

"If they spend a quarter of an hour explaining what the film is about, I'm not interested&#"

Julio Fernández • Producer

Filmax, a recognised brand for genre cinema. Its director tells us what makes it work  

05/12/2011

“You mustn’t accept misfortune as fate”

Cédric Kahn • Director

Excessive debt, family, love, survival: the French director explains the reasons that drove him to make A Better Life.  

02/12/2011

Simple stories, important topics

Nejc Gazvoda • Director

At 26, the promising Slovenian director has made a generational debut feature, shot over 14 days for €180,000.  

02/12/2011

"Great things can be born out of a crisis"

Alice Rohrwacher • Director

Analysis of Corpo Celeste, selected in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2011, the debut narrative feature by a young Italian director trained in documentary...  

02/12/2011

"We are alive and well"

Andrew G. Vajna • Hungarian Film Commissioner

A meeting with the current main man of a Hungarian industry that has seen financial difficulty during the past couple of years  

02/12/2011

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Rolando Colla • Director

Summer Games is a teenage love story set against a background of problematic families. The film was picked as Switzerland's 2012 Oscars entry.  

"Europe is turning into a huge prison"

Fernand Melgar • Director

Fernand Melgar presented his controversial documentary Special Flight, about illegal immigration in Switzerland, at the 49th Gijón International Film Festival  

29/11/2011

My characters, hopeless optimists

Aki Kaurismäki • Director

Le Havre describes a world of marginalised individuals who express great mutual solidarity and it even has an optimistic ending  

24/11/2011

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Rhys Ifans • Actor

British actor Rhys Ifans plays Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, in Roland Emmerich's shakespearean blockbuster Anonymous.  

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Roland Emmerich • Director

Emmerich's Anonymous revolves around Edward de Vere, who – according to some theories – was the author of several works nowadays attributed to Shakespeare.  

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The cast of Roland Emmerich's Anonymous

It's an all British Cast for Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, including award winning actors Vanessa Redgrave and David Thewlis  

Festival Le Printemps du Cinéma Arabe 2011

Stefano Savona • Regista

Italian director Stefano Savona filmed the Egyptian revolution and offers us his day-to-day account in the documentary Tahrir Liberation Square.  

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Mohammed Ali Atasi • Director

Mohammed Ali Atasi tells us about his documentary Waiting for Abou Zayd, and how it was received in Europe and Arab countries  

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