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. 664 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 

Festival Le Printemps du Cinéma Arabe 2011

Hala Alabdalla • Director

Hala Alabdalla tells us about her debut directorial film, I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave, and discusses her feelings about the recent events...  

Istanbul is an addictive poison

Hüseyin Karabey • Producer

Do Not Forget Me Istanbul, which opened the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, gathers six urban tales about the producer’s native city  

07/11/2011

BFI London Film Festival 2011

Madonna • Director, W.E.

Madonna stepped behind the camera for the second time to direct W.E., inspired by the affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson  

Portrait of a family with kryptonite

Ivan Cotroneo • Director

"Kryptonite! is my childhood outlook on the 70s in Naples", explains the director Ivan Cotroneo  

03/11/2011

"We all sensed that the crisis was going to happen"

Max Lemcke • Director

The director who surprised us with Casual Day attacks today’s contradictions again in Five Square Meters, a tragicomedy which triumphed at the latest...  

02/11/2011

Leconte talks about his collaborative project The Suicide Shop

Patrice Leconte • Director

The Suicide Shop by Patrice Leconte.  

31/10/2011

BFI London Film Festival 2011

Freida Pinto and Michael Winterbottom • Actress and director

Indian actress Freida Pinto and British director Michael Winterbottom attended the UK premiere of Trishna  

Producers on the Move 2011 - Norway

Maria Ekerhovd • Mer Film

Maria Ekerhovd, who scooped Norway’s so far only Golden Palm for Bobbie Peers’ short Sniffer, has recently opened her own production outfit, Mer Film.  

25/10/2011

BFI London Film Festival 2011

The team of A Dangerous Method

Michael Fassbender, Jeremy Thomas, Keira Knightly, David Cronenburg, Christopher Hampton and Viggo Mortenson attended the UK Premiere of A Dangerous Method  

25/10/2011

"I don’t believe in forced dialogues to inform viewers"

Milagros Mumenthaler • Director

Interview with a director brought up with both European and South American cultures, who triumphed at Locarno with Back to Stay.  

24/10/2011

“My rebellion can be found in the character”

John Michael McDonagh • Director

After years of unsuccessful attempts at making a career in the film world, John Michael McDonagh presents The Guard, which won the Audience Award at the...  

21/10/2011

Producers on the Move 2011 – Poland

Łukasz Dzięcioł • Opus Film

David Lynch’s assistant on Inland Empire, is currently preparing new projects by Paweł Borowski and Greg Zgliński  

20/10/2011

Producers on the Move 2011 – Netherlands

Michael John Fedun • Corrino Media Group

Michael John Fedun is a producer at Amsterdam-based Corrino Media Group, which alternates Dutch projects with international fare, such as The Devil’s Double  

19/10/2011

Producers on the Move 2011 – Luxembourg

David Grumbach • Paul Thiltges Distributions

David Grumbach got his start as a production manager in Luxembourg and now works at Paul Thiltges Distributions, which co-produced Sleepless Night  

19/10/2011

“A thriller-like intensity”

Pierre Schoeller • Director

A rising star of French cinema, the director talks about his second feature The Minister  

18/10/2011

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