Interviews

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

7478 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/03/2024. 582 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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Ivana Mladenovic  • Director

“The film is first and foremost a love story between two individuals”

Ivana Mladenovic • Director

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: A chat with Romanian director Ivana Mladenovic, whose gay love story, Soldiers. Story...  

28/09/2017 | San Sebastián 2017 | Competition

Agnes Lisa Wegner, Cece Mlay  • Directors of The Empty Grave

"Our film is balancing between historical trauma and historical responsibility"

Agnes Lisa Wegner, Cece Mlay • Directors of The Empty Grave

BERLINALE 2024: The directors detail their documentary, which portrays the struggle of the Tanzanian...  

07/03/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Berlinale Special

Erlend Eirik Mo  • Director

"The problem of climate change is a global issue, and no one’s doing anything to solve it"

Erlend Eirik Mo • Director

We chatted to Norwegian filmmaker Erlend Eirik Mo, whose Norwegian-Danish documentary project received the...  

23/03/2018 | CPH:DOX 2018

Sophia Mocorrea  • Director of The Kidnapping of the Bride

“I felt it was time we re-evaluated these traditions before blindly following them”

Sophia Mocorrea • Director of The Kidnapping of the Bride

The director of the winner of a Short Film Jury Award at this year’s Sundance, screening as part of EFP’s...  

06/07/2023 | Future Frames 2023

Kaweh Modiri • Director of Mitra

“For safety reasons, we couldn’t cast Iranian actors working or living in Iran, so we cast internationally”

Kaweh Modiri • Director of Mitra

We talked to the Dutch director about his second feature film, premiering at International Film Festival...  

09/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Limelight

Avi Mograbi  • Director of The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation

"We have an election coming in two weeks and nobody talks about the occupation"

Avi Mograbi • Director of The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation

BERLINALE 2021: We talked to the prolific Israeli filmmaker about his latest film, in which Israeli...  

17/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Forum

Kamyar Mohsenin  • Manager of international relations, Fajr International Film Festival

“Every day, our role in world cinema is growing”

Kamyar Mohsenin • Manager of international relations, Fajr International Film Festival

The Fajr International Film Festival’s manager of international relations, Kamyar Mohsenin, explains how...  

03/05/2018

Hans Petter Moland  • Director

“To be able to laugh about morbid things, the absurd moments in life, can be liberating”

Hans Petter Moland • Director

In Order of Disappearance by Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland is the only Nordic contender for the...  

04/02/2014

“It’s pretty hard to age with any sort of dignity”

Hans Petter Moland • Director

The Norwegian filmmaker speaks about the great experience he had in working with an all Nordic cast and...  

12/03/2010

Hans Petter Moland  • Director of Out Stealing Horses

“This story makes you feel like you have been a part of somebody’s life”

Hans Petter Moland • Director of Out Stealing Horses

BERLIN 2019: Cineuropa met up with Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland to discuss Out Stealing Horses,...  

11/02/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | Competition

Katalin Moldovai • Director of Without Air

"One of the main topics of the film is freedom of expression and the oppression that some may face"

Katalin Moldovai • Director of Without Air

The young Hungarian filmmaker born in Romania discusses her debut feature, a very subtle film about a...  

13/11/2023 | Arras 2023

"I like to create strange worlds"

Dominik Moll • Cannes 2005

Still amazed that his film Lemming was chosen to open the Cannes Film Festival, the French filmmaker...  

11/05/2005

Dominik Moll • Director of Only The Animals

"A mystery thriller with an original structure"

Dominik Moll • Director of Only The Animals

VENICE 2019: French-German director Dominik Moll talks to us about his new feature Only the Animals,...  

31/08/2019 | Venice 2019 | Giornate degli Autori

Dominik Moll • Director of The Night of the 12th

"The main character needed to question his own attitude, as a man, towards women"

Dominik Moll • Director of The Night of the 12th

CANNES 2022: The French-German filmmaker’s new movie is an ensemble police investigation reflecting a...  

22/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Cannes Première

Aliaksei Paluyan and Jörn Möllenkamp • Director and producer of Courage

“We were prepared for the shoot, but we were not naïve – we knew we might get arrested”

Aliaksei Paluyan and Jörn Möllenkamp • Director and producer of Courage

BERLINALE 2021: We chatted to the team behind this film, which was shot in Belarus, also during the heated...  

17/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Berlinale Special

Birgit Möller  • Director of Franky Five Star

“I’m not sure if the coming-of-age process is ever completed”

Birgit Möller • Director of Franky Five Star

The filmmaker has been at the German Film Fest Madrid to screen her second feature, a comedy-drama about...  

20/06/2023 | /Finland/Germany

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