Interviews

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

9051 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 02/10/2026. 605 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Barbara Rupik • Director of Such Miracles Do Happen

“I wanted to create something along the lines of a waking dream”

Barbara Rupik • Director of Such Miracles Do Happen

We spoke to the young Polish filmmaker whose award-winning short film marks her as a major talent to watch with a unique artistic vision  

05/07/2024 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2024

Oleh Sentsov  • Director of Real

“I would not dare call this a movie”

Oleh Sentsov • Director of Real

The Ukrainian director breaks down the making of his real-life record of war and the Russian invasion, captured accidentally with his military GoPro  

05/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Special Screenings

Antonio La Camera  • Director of The Lost Memories of Trees

“Being immersed in the Amazon was an inner journey to discover my limits and my strengths”

Antonio La Camera • Director of The Lost Memories of Trees

The Italian director participated in Playlab’s 2022 Creators Lab with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, where he shot his Venice-awarded short film  

05/07/2024 | /Italy/Spain

Alexe Poukine  • Director of Who Cares?

“Is it possible to be benevolent in an abusive system?”

Alexe Poukine • Director of Who Cares?

Cineuropa met with the Belgian director, whose new documentary focuses on caregivers’ sense of empathy and the way in which institutions prevent them from...  

04/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Samira El Mouzghibati  • Director of (Y)our mother

“Freedom is something very vast, we are constantly redefining what it means”

Samira El Mouzghibati • Director of (Y)our mother

The filmmaker talks about his first documentary feature, an intimate feminine film about the freedoms we look for and those that we grant ourselves  

04/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Margarida Cardoso  • Director of Banzo

“One of the challenges of the film is that it takes place from the point of view of those in power”

Margarida Cardoso • Director of Banzo

In her new feature, the Portuguese director focuses on a little-discussed historical happening: the death of expatriated African workers owing to their...  

04/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

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 | Munich 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