Interviews

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

8377 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 29/08/2025. 655 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 

"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  

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

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