Interviews

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

8334 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 04/08/2025. 666 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo  • Creators of See You in Another Life

"Something as big as a terrorist attack can be hidden in the everyday"

Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo • Creators of See You in Another Life

The pair responsible for one of the best Spanish series of the year, which can now be seen globally on Disney+ and Hulu, shared the secrets about their work  

03/07/2024 | Cinema Jove 2024

Ivana Gloria  • Director of Chlorophyll

“I had to learn to let go of the fear”

Ivana Gloria • Director of Chlorophyll

The director takes a deep dive into her “modern queer fairy tale”, a film about transformation and the fear of change  

03/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Pavel G Vesnakov  • Director of Windless

“Hesitation is a burden, but it marks creative paths”

Pavel G Vesnakov • Director of Windless

The Bulgarian director decodes his second feature, which follows a young man who’s detached from his past and his homeland as he deals with the sale of a...  

03/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Paula Ďurinová  • Director of Lapilli

“In the total darkness of a cave, where there is no way to escape to another reality, any question can be asked”

Paula Ďurinová • Director of Lapilli

The director discusses her exploration of grief and memory, the blending of autofiction and documentary essay, and the interdisciplinary influences on her...  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Martin Pavol Repka  • Director of March to May

“What I like about slow cinema is that it gives a certain value to time in film and its passing”

Martin Pavol Repka • Director of March to May

Cineuropa chats to the debuting director about his film’s form, the influences behind his style and his take on slow cinema  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Peter Hoogendoorn • Director of Three Days of Fish

“My work is often described as autobiographical, but I find that definition limiting”

Peter Hoogendoorn • Director of Three Days of Fish

The Dutch director breaks down his second feature, revealing the biographical connection to its plot  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Adam Martinec  • Director of Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

“Humour opens up the audience's heart, making it easier to smuggle in the heavier moments”

Adam Martinec • Director of Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

The director discusses his use of the pig-slaughter tradition to explore generational and gender tensions, plus his influences from the Czechoslovak New Wave  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Natja Brunckhorst • Director of Two to One

“I wanted to make a kind of ‘arthouse feel-good movie’ with a happy ending”

Natja Brunckhorst • Director of Two to One

The German actress-turned-director unpicks her approach to depicting the setting of the GDR and talks about the cast of her comedy film  

01/07/2024 | Filmfest München 2024

Matthias Krepp • Director of Strangers in the Night

“I found it interesting to make a film whose protagonists were unaware of the turning point the next year would bring”

Matthias Krepp • Director of Strangers in the Night

As his short film about six characters looking for meaning and comfort awaits its screening at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames, the Austrian...  

01/07/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Marthe Peters • Director of Baldilocks

“Looking through other people’s eyes, I suddenly feel really proud that I can point to her and tell people that it’s me”

Marthe Peters • Director of Baldilocks

The Dutch director takes her raw and personal documentary, which delves into her past, to Karlovy Vary to screen as part of EFP’s Future Frames  

01/07/2024 | Future Frames 2024

William Sehested Høeg • Director of The Complaint

“I’ve made a film about human facades, and how far we will go to fit in and feel recognised”

William Sehested Høeg • Director of The Complaint

We get the low-down on this dark, satirical drama that lays bare the falsity of corporate culture and self-help, as it screens at Karlovy Vary as part of...  

01/07/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Katarína Gramatová  • Director of A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places

“I am not a fan of documentary films that just capture the moment, where there is no vision or ideas from a filmmaker”

Katarína Gramatová • Director of A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places

The Slovakian director talks about gaining the trust of the protagonist of her short documentary, which will screen as part of EFP’s Future Frames at...  

01/07/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Bogdan Alecsandru  • Director of If I Float

“I am interested in the limits and specificities of the short film as an independent art form”

Bogdan Alecsandru • Director of If I Float

As his work is about to screen as part of EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary, Cineuropa talks to the Romanian director about queer cinema and the...  

28/06/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Lucía G Romero  • Director of Cura Sana

“For me, love is the essence of the film”

Lucía G Romero • Director of Cura Sana

We talk to the Spanish director about her Berlinale Crystal Bear-winning short film as it awaits more plaudits when it screens at EFP’s Future Frames in...  

28/06/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Sarah Chazelle, Étienne Ollagnier  • Distributors, Jour2Fête

“The films we choose are the films we love”

Sarah Chazelle, Étienne Ollagnier • Distributors, Jour2Fête

The two French distributors unpack their company’s editorial policy and market strategies  

28/06/2024 | Distributor of the Month

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