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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István Szabó • Director of Final Report

“If one would still like to be with others in the future, the cinema will remain”

István Szabó • Director of Final Report

Decorated Hungarian filmmaker István Szabó enlightens us about his melancholic and comic Final Report,...  

30/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition

Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó  • Directors of White Plastic Sky

“We wanted to study the paradox of sacrifice”

Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó • Directors of White Plastic Sky

First presented in the Berlinale’s Encounters section, the film is a spectacular post-apocalyptic animated...  

28/11/2023 | /Hungary/Slovakia

Noemi Veronika Szakonyi  • Director of Six Weeks

"The six-week adoption law in Hungary is a very suspenseful situation for a film"

Noemi Veronika Szakonyi • Director of Six Weeks

The Hungarian filmmaker discusses her film, which follows a young mother of an unwanted child who has six...  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

André Szardenings • Director of Bulldog

“I didn't want to make a film in which queerness was a problem”

André Szardenings • Director of Bulldog

We talked about the German director’s first feature, in which he tells the story of a particularly...  

28/10/2022 | /Germany/Spain

Janos Szász • Director

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Janos Szász • Director

The Notebook was named best film at the Karlovy Vary Festival  

04/07/2013

Jagoda Szelc  • Director

“Watching a film is a form of ritual”

Jagoda Szelc • Director

BERLIN 2018: We talked to Jagoda Szelc, whose debut film, Tower. A Bright Day, has had its world premiere...  

17/02/2018 | Berlinale 2018 | Forum

Rozália Szeleczki  • Director of Cat Call

"My basic idea is that the more absurd I make things, the more they somehow reflect reality"

Rozália Szeleczki • Director of Cat Call

The Hungarian filmmaker details her film, which follows a 30-year-old trapped in a world of her own...  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Bálint Szentgyörgyi • Creator and director of The Informant

"We all grew up with families who talked about a world that no longer existed”

Bálint Szentgyörgyi • Creator and director of The Informant

The young Hungarian director spoke enthusiastically about his eight-part series, which had its...  

09/11/2021 | Geneva 2021

Zsófia Szilágyi • Director of One Day

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Zsófia Szilágyi • Director of One Day

CANNES 2018: Hungarian filmmaker Zsófia Szilágyi talked to us about her first feature, One Day  

15/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Critics' Week

Petra Szőcs  • Director

“Dangers, opportunities and the dynamics of roles”

Petra Szőcs • Director

CANNES 2014: Cineuropa met up with Petra Szőcs, director of the short film The Execution, in competition...  

27/05/2014

Petra Szőcs  • Director of Deva

“People are too complicated for simple statements”

Petra Szőcs • Director of Deva

VENICE 2018: We met up with filmmaker and poet Petra Szőcs to talk about her debut feature, Deva, shown at...  

11/09/2018 | Venice 2018 | Biennale College Cinema

Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska and Magdalena Sztorc • Director and producer of Dolphin

"Dolphin is about a couple facing a very unusual gender twist, and the struggle the female character has with the process of creation and accepting herself"

Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska and Magdalena Sztorc • Director and producer of Dolphin

We talked to the director-producer team behind the winner of the connecting cottbus Award in KVIFF Eastern...  

12/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

Malgorzata Szumowska  • Director

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Malgorzata Szumowska • Director

BERLIN 2015: Cineuropa talked to Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska, whose film Body is screening as...  

10/02/2015

Malgorzata Szumowska  • Director

“Polish people really believe in ghosts”

Malgorzata Szumowska • Director

BERLIN 2015: Cineuropa talked to Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska, whose film Body is screening as...  

10/02/2015

“A film about love”

Malgorzata Szumowska • Director

Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska explains her approach to In the Name of, a film about a homosexual...  

08/02/2013

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Małgorzatą Szumowską • Director

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