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 06/12/2025. 641 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Jaak Kilmi • Director of The Shadow

"I wanted an entertaining way to approach a divine Estonian poet"

Jaak Kilmi • Director of The Shadow

The Estonian director delves into his latest film, a portray of Juhan Liiv, a struggling poet and unlikely detective who lived in his country during the...  

25/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Eleonora Camizzi • Director of Pictures in Mind

“I already felt that this set-up could help us have real conversations, where we could really listen to each other”

Eleonora Camizzi • Director of Pictures in Mind

The Swiss director unpicks her process of pointing the camera at herself and her father, afflicted by schizophrenia  

25/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Boris Guts • Director of Deaf Lovers

"My characters are in limbo, walking from heaven to hell"

Boris Guts • Director of Deaf Lovers

The Russian-born filmmaker discusses his a tale of a Ukrainian woman and a Russian man, both deaf, who meet in Istanbul while there’s a war going on back home  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Viktor Tauš • Director of Girl America

"Hope and faith have a transformative power"

Viktor Tauš • Director of Girl America

The Czech filmmaker delves into his newest film, about a little girl in a strict socialist orphanage who tries to overcome fears, insecurity and loneliness  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Juris Kursietis • Director of The Exalted

"I wanted the story to be a clash between art and money"

Juris Kursietis • Director of The Exalted

The filmmaker discusses his follow-up to his Cannes Directors' Fortnight entry Oleg, about a German organist who discovers her Latvian husband's involvement...  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

"I tried to show how brutal a man's world can be without women in a rural area of Turkey"

Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

The Turkish filmmaker discusses his new feature, a daring boy's journey against the cruel entanglements of deception and disabilities of the adult world  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Eric Lamhène, Rae Lyn Lee • Writer-director and writer-cinematographer of Breathing Underwater

"If it helps change just one life for the better, this film will have fulfilled its purpose"

Eric Lamhène, Rae Lyn Lee • Writer-director and writer-cinematographer of Breathing Underwater

The filmmakers discuss the genesis and process behind their film following the journey of a woman in a situation of violence finding a new life  

22/11/2024 | Lecce 2024

Daniel Espinosa • Director of The Helicopter Heist

“I’m known and regarded as an OK guy who makes cool movies with an emphatic depiction of these surroundings”

Daniel Espinosa • Director of The Helicopter Heist

We found out how the heist miniseries took the Swedish director on a journey that sometimes saw him cross paths with his own past  

22/11/2024 | Stockholm 2024

Eszter Angyalosy • Head of Studies, TFL SeriesLab

“I think it's a false promise to tell somebody that all you need is a great idea, you need much more than that to make it in this industry”

Eszter Angyalosy • Head of Studies, TFL SeriesLab

Cineuropa talked to the Hungarian screenwriter and story editor about the characteristics and innovations of the TorinoFilmLab programme dedicated to TV...  

22/11/2024 | TorinoFilmLab 2024

Myrid Carten • Director of A Want in Her

“People are often powerless over their issues, but there are ways in which we can make excuses for it as well”

Myrid Carten • Director of A Want in Her

The Irish artist and filmmaker talks about turning a critical lens on her mother and herself in her first feature-length documentary  

21/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Björn Stein • Director of Whiskey on the Rocks

“'Are you interested in humour?' producer Henrik Jansson-Schweizer asked. I read five pages and was good to go”

Björn Stein • Director of Whiskey on the Rocks

The Swedish director breaks down his process of turning a 1981 Cold War story into a wacky satirical comedy  

20/11/2024 | Stockholm 2024

Carmen Trocker • Director of Personale

“This is the best way to talk about the expectations that tourists have and the workers who make it possible”

Carmen Trocker • Director of Personale

The first-time director talks about her simple yet effective visual and sonic approaches to her documentary, illuminating different forms of unseen labour  

20/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Jesper Ganslandt • Director of Cry Wolf

“I almost get restless if I don’t test out something new now and again”

Jesper Ganslandt • Director of Cry Wolf

The Swedish festival regular behind Falkenberg Farewell, The Ape and other more auteur-driven titles discusses his new crime series  

20/11/2024 | Stockholm 2024

Paulo Filipe Monteiro • Director of Clear Nights

“I wanted to make a film where dialogue came through the body as well as through words”

Paulo Filipe Monteiro • Director of Clear Nights

The Portuguese director chatted with us about his film, which broaches post-natal depression and coming out  

19/11/2024 | Lecce 2024

Piotr Winiewicz • Director of About a Hero

“What happens if, all of a sudden, this voice we trust is not trustworthy any more?”

Piotr Winiewicz • Director of About a Hero

The Copenhagen-based Polish director discusses the extensive process of making his film, adapted from a script written by a specially trained AI model  

19/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

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