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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Andrea Sedláčková  • Director of Backstage

"In reality, these talent shows are even worse than we described them; it's a really tough world"

Andrea Sedláčková • Director of Backstage

We chatted to Czech writer-director Andrea Sedláčková as the Film Festival Cottbus screened her new...  

08/11/2018 | Cottbus 2018

Adam Sedlák  • Director

"I didn't think of financial constraints as a weakness; I considered them strengths"

Adam Sedlák • Director

KARLOVY VARY 2018: Cineuropa met up with rising Czech filmmaker Adam Sedlák to talk about his minimalist...  

04/07/2018 | Karlovy Vary 2018 | Competition

Adam Sedlák • Director of BANGER.

"My film is not an anti-drugs movie; I’m trying to be more progressive and show that the manipulation and mixing of different drugs is dangerous"

Adam Sedlák • Director of BANGER.

We had a chat with the director, whose feature BANGER., filmed entirely on an iPhone, follows the odyssey...  

14/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Mathias Seebacher  • Director of Home Is Where The Scars Are From

“As I started to develop the characters and their internal lives, began to gain interest in who lives in these buildings and why”

Mathias Seebacher • Director of Home Is Where The Scars Are From

The Austrian director blends the personal and the political in his film, which he discusses as he prepares...  

24/08/2021 | Future Frames 2021

Sandra Seeling Lipski • Director, Evolution! Mallorca International Film Festival

"It’s really important to keep the level of quality very high"

Sandra Seeling Lipski • Director, Evolution! Mallorca International Film Festival

We chatted to Sandra Seeling Lipski, founder and director of the Evolution! Mallorca International Film...  

17/10/2019

Norika Sefa • Director of Looking for Venera

“I didn’t want the film to exploit the poverty of Balkan countries”

Norika Sefa • Director of Looking for Venera

We talked to the Kosovar director, whose feature debut unspooled at International Film Festival Rotterdam...  

12/12/2022 | /Kosovo

Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen and Yorinde Segal • Head of IDFA Industry and IDFA Industry Forum manager

“We feel a huge responsibility towards the filmmakers because now, more than ever, we need to exchange ideas”

Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen and Yorinde Segal • Head of IDFA Industry and IDFA Industry Forum manager

We spoke to Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen and Yorinde Segal, respectively head of IDFA Industry and IDFA...  

23/10/2020 | IDFA 2020 | IDFA for Professionals

Interview - Venice Days 2012

Marco Segato • Director

Piero Tortolina, a point of reference for an entire generation of film buffs, comes back to life thanks to...  

Difference between a Harry Potter film and an auteur film

Tanya Seghatchian • Producer

In Los-Angeles for the promotion of My Summer of Love, Tanya Seghatchian explains Cineuropa why Pawel...  

28/06/2005

Andrea Segre  • Director

“My main character is a reflection of Europe’s identity crisis”

Andrea Segre • Director

VENICE 2017: Director Andrea Segre talks to us about The Order of Things, a special screening at the...  

01/09/2017

Andrea Segre  • Director

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Andrea Segre • Director

VENICE 2015: The Venice Days are hosting the Italian premiere of Dreams of the Salt Lake, the new...  

11/09/2015

Interview - LUX Prize 2012

Andrea Segre • Director

After being selected for the Venice Days in 2011, Italian director Andrea Segre's Li and the Poet is now...  

Interview - Venice Days 2011

Andrea Segre • Director

Shun Li and the Poet, the first fiction film by documentary-maker Andrea Segre received the longest and...  

Venice Days 2010

Andrea Segre • Director

Andrea Segre presents his film The Green Blood, which gives a voice to the immigrant workers who...  

Andrea Segre  • Director of Il pianeta in mare

"I did what us documentary filmmakers do: we ask to enter the premises and to stay for an unusually long period of time"

Andrea Segre • Director of Il pianeta in mare

VENICE 2019: We chat with Venetian director Andrea Segre, whose Il pianeta in mare is screened out of...  

06/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Out of Competition

Andrea Segre • Director of Venetian Molecules

“Places speak to me in an entirely different way”

Andrea Segre • Director of Venetian Molecules

VENICE 2020: We interviewed Andrea Segre, director of the pre-opening film of this year’s Venice Film...  

02/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

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