Interviews

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

8285 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 01/07/2025. 663 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 

Interview

Teddy Lussi-Modeste • Director

French director Teddy Lussi-Modeste attended the Brussels Film Festival to present his gypsy drama Jimmy Rivière  

26/06/2011

"A quest for transparency"

Mia Hansen-Love • Director

Interview in Paris with the 30-year-old director who continues her impressive career with her third feature, Goodbye First Love, Special Mention from the...  

24/06/2011

Interview

Katia Lewkowicz • Director

Bachelor Days Are Over opened the Brussels Film Festival 2011 at a screening attended director Katia Lewkowicz. She tells Cineuropa about her experience as...  

Eastern Glow

Guido Schwab and Marcel Lenz • Producers, Ostlicht Filmproduktion

16/06/2011

Interview

Jonas Holmström, Daniel Wirtberg • Director and producer

Jonas Holmström, Daniel Wirtberg, director and producer of Songs of Tomorrow tell about the making of Songs of Tomorrow, a film about music and friendship  

“We have developed a strong industry side”

Mihai Chirilov • Artistic director, TIFF

In 2011, the Transilania International Film Festival was accredited to FIAPF, making it one of the top 40 international competitive film festivals  

10/06/2011

Satire transcends history

Gabriel Achim • Director

The director/writer/producer talks about his debut feature Adalbert’s Dream and how Romanian history looks from today’s perspective.  

08/06/2011

“The alienation of people living far from their roots”

Ulrich Kohler • Director

The German director explains why in Sleeping Sickness he decided to focus on the subject of European expatriates working in development aid in Africa.  

08/06/2011

“Imitate the real”

Alain Cavalier • Director

The French director discusses the well thought-out and intuitive method which guided his directing on experimental film Pater.  

08/06/2011

"A major challenge awaits us!"

Philippe Reynaert • President of Cine-Regio

Philippe Reynaert tells about Cine-Regio's new strategy and the importance of regional funds in Europe  

06/06/2011

"Maybe this is a Turkish western"

Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Director

Ceylan’s acclaimed film Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a sort of Turkish western based on memories of true events  

31/05/2011

A European filmmaker in China

David Verbeek • Director

After Shanghai Trance (in competition at Rotterdam) and R U There (Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2010), the Dutch director has returned to China for...  

25/05/2011

Europe and the US united in talent

Paolo Sorrentino & Sean Penn • Director/Actor

The Italian director and the US star joined their talents to make This Must Be The Place  

20/05/2011

Von Trier’s train wreck

Lars von Trier • Director

The enfant terrible of European cinema tells all about Melancholia, his "beautiful film about the end of the world"  

19/05/2011

"I’m incapable of respecting genre rules"

Pedro Almodóvar • Director

Almodóvar blends thriller, sci-fi and melodrama in his highly anticipated adaptation of a novel by Thierry Jonquet.  

19/05/2011

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