Interviews

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

7477 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/03/2024. 581 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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Francesco Giai Via  • Artistic director, Annecy Italian Film Festival

"A festival with a strong identity"

Francesco Giai Via • Artistic director, Annecy Italian Film Festival

We met up with Francesco Giai Via, the new artistic director of the Annecy Italian Film Festival  

25/09/2017

Francesco Giai Via  • Head of Studies, Alpi Film Lab

“Environmental sustainability and gender equality should be seen as part of our new professional DNA”

Francesco Giai Via • Head of Studies, Alpi Film Lab

We chatted with Head of Studies Francesco Giai Via who’s overseeing this programme on Italian-French...  

08/04/2022 | Italy/France

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Paul Giamatti • Actor

Golden Globe winner actor Paul Giamatti talks about his experience playing King John of England in...  

Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari  • Directors

“We have seen the migrants’ strength and their beauty”

Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari • Directors

Cineuropa sat down with Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari, directors of Spectres Are Haunting Europe,...  

28/11/2016

Xavier Giannoli  • Co-director of Of Money and Blood

"I’m not interested in the events, but in their shadow"

Xavier Giannoli • Co-director of Of Money and Blood

The director of Lost Illusions, along with Frederic Planchon, co-directed the series based on the book of...  

13/10/2023 | South Series 2023

Xavier Giannoli • Director

"An elusive enigma"

Xavier Giannoli • Director

Xavier Giannoli decrypts The Apparition, an immersion into a canonical investigation starring Vincent...  

12/02/2018

Xavier Giannoli  • Director

"We all need a bit of illusion in our lives"

Xavier Giannoli • Director

VENICE 2015: The French filmmaker Xavier Giannoli deciphers Marguerite, unveiled in competition at the...  

04/09/2015

Superstar: "a disaster film, but with a glimmer of hope”

Xavier Giannoli • Director

Cineuropa met the French director at the 69th Venice Film Festival where he had come to screen Superstar...  

31/08/2012

Xavier Giannoli  • Director of Lost Illusions

“As a filmmaker, I hope that the audience can see the beauty of this civilisation, but also the cruelty”

Xavier Giannoli • Director of Lost Illusions

VENICE 2021: With his adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s work, a long obsession is finally put to rest, with...  

07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Giulia Giapponesi • Director of Bella Ciao - Per la libertà

“A hymn to a type of resistance which unites us all”

Giulia Giapponesi • Director of Bella Ciao - Per la libertà

We met with the director behind the documentary charting the history of a song which has come to symbolise...  

07/04/2022 | Bergamo 2022

Alex Gibney  • Director of Citizen K

“I thought Khodorkovsky’s story might be an opportunity to talk about how power works in Russia”

Alex Gibney • Director of Citizen K

VENICE 2019: American documentarian Alex Gibney discusses his Citizen K and tells Cineuropa a bunch of...  

09/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Out of Competition

Ben Gibson  • Director, DFFB

“DFFB is consistently capturing real audiences for real filmmaking”

Ben Gibson • Director, DFFB

We sat down with British film producer Ben Gibson to chat about his experience so far as head of the...  

14/06/2019

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Jakub Gierszal - Shooting Stars 2012
Poland

Jakub Gierszal made splash in Jan Komasa's Suicide room. He is currently working on Jacek Borcuch's...  

Rezo Gigineishvili • Director

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Rezo Gigineishvili • Director

We caught up with Georgian director Rezo Gigineishvili, who was in the Sarajevo Film Festival competition...  

15/08/2017

Restless imagination

Ariadna Gil • Actress

04/01/2007

Cintia Gil  • Artistic director, Sheffield Doc/Fest

“One of the reasons why film festivals exist is to bring people together”

Cintia Gil • Artistic director, Sheffield Doc/Fest

Cintia Gil, artistic director of Sheffield Doc/Fest, details how the festival will implement online...  

01/04/2020 | Sheffield Doc Fest 2020

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