Interviews

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

7494 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 29/04/2024. 576 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Jarmila Outratova  • Head of industry, Jihlava IDFF

"Maybe the public will return as film professionals"

Jarmila Outratova • Head of industry, Jihlava IDFF

Ahead of the 19th edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (27 October–1 November), Cineuropa speaks to Jarmila Outratova, the...  

26/10/2015

Marek Hovorka  • Festival director, Jihlava IDFF

"A radical programme and new talents"

Marek Hovorka • Festival director, Jihlava IDFF

Marek Hovorka, festival director and head of programming at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, speaks to Cineuropa about the concept and...  

26/10/2015

Christophe Leparc  • Artistic director, Cinemed

"Conviviality, rigour, eclecticism and discovery”

Christophe Leparc • Artistic director, Cinemed

We met up with Christophe Leparc, the new man at the helm of the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, the 37th edition of which is taking place between...  

26/10/2015

Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci • Directors

"A cross between Indiana Jones and Jules Verne"

Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci • Directors

We caught up with the directors of highly successful animated film April and the Extraordinary World, the winner of the Cristal Award for Best Feature Film...  

25/10/2015

Olmo Omerzu  • Director

"I don’t have anything against genre film; every type of production interests me"

Olmo Omerzu • Director

Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu is back on the festival circuit with his sophomore feature, Family Film, which is bound to win a plethora of awards, just...  

22/10/2015

Theresa von Eltz  • Director

"It is hard to get a new film financed, even for established filmmakers like Stephen Frears"

Theresa von Eltz • Director

German director Theresa von Eltz’s feature debut, 4Kings, had its international premiere at the Rome Film Fest  

22/10/2015

Federico Spoletti  • Managing director, Sub-Ti Ltd

"Accessible cinema caters for the needs of everybody"

Federico Spoletti • Managing director, Sub-Ti Ltd

At Rome’s MIA, the managing director of international subtitling company Sub-Ti spoke about improving access to cinema for people with sensory disabilities  

21/10/2015

Nicolas Saada  • Director

“Reality is an idea, a fantasy that people have when they watch a fiction film”

Nicolas Saada • Director

French director Nicolas Saada is screening his second feature, Taj Mahal, in the Global Cinema section of the Film Fest Gent  

20/10/2015

Florence Gastaud  • Managing director of ARP

“The televisual window needs to be reinvented"

Florence Gastaud • Managing director of ARP

Florence Gastaud, managing director of ARP, dissects the current and future issues generating debate within the French film industry  

20/10/2015

Lucia Milazzotto  • Director of Rome’s International Audiovisual Market

"A new market with the support of the entire industry”

Lucia Milazzotto • Director of Rome’s International Audiovisual Market

The first edition of the International Audiovisual Market is being held in Rome from 16 to 20 October. Cineuropa caught up with its director, Lucia Milazzotto  

19/10/2015

Max Sobol  • Director

"There is something universal about difficult love stories that people can relate to"

Max Sobol • Director

The debut feature by Max Sobol, You (Us) Me, is screening this week at the Film Fest Gent and depicts a rather unusual relationship  

15/10/2015

Joonas Berghäll  • Director

"Some people had the most amazing, positive attitude to life I have ever come across"

Joonas Berghäll • Director

Joonas Berghäll asked Finnish men about their views in Steam of Life; now it is the mothers’ turn in Mother's Wish, which opens in Finland on 16 October  

15/10/2015

Patrick Glotz • Director

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Patrick Glotz • Director

Patrick Glotz, the director of Belgian Disaster, discusses this comedy's storyline, which hit cinemas in September 2015  

14/10/2015

Patrick Duynslaegher  • Artistic director, Film Fest Gent

"Our festival is a window to the transformation that is happening in the music and TV scene"

Patrick Duynslaegher • Artistic director, Film Fest Gent

Cineuropa spoke to Patrick Duynslaegher, artistic director of the Film Fest Gent, about the focus of this year's edition and the challenges for the future  

13/10/2015

Stefano Sollima  • Director

“A genre film is like a fairy tale: it never stops being relevant”

Stefano Sollima • Director

Roman director Stefano Sollima, fresh from the extraordinary success of Gomorra - the TV series, has just released his second film, Suburra  

13/10/2015

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