Interviews

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

7497 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 02/05/2024. 579 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Tomm Moore  • Director

“The timeless side of animation”

Tomm Moore • Director

Meeting in Paris with the Irish director of the wonderful animation movie Song of the Sea  

05/12/2014

Roberts Vinovskis  • Producer

“It’s never easy in any country to get films funded. Latvia is no exception”

Roberts Vinovskis • Producer

At the 18th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Cineuropa found out what it’s like to be a producer in Latvia, and how Roberts Vinovskis chooses his projects  

02/12/2014

Aik Karapetian  • Director

“I wanted to build up the rules of the game”

Aik Karapetian • Director

At the 18th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Cineuropa sat down with Aik Karapetian to talk about his career, the Latvian film industry and his thoughts...  

01/12/2014

Cristóbal Arteaga  • Director

“Spain’s tax situation is a disgrace”

Cristóbal Arteaga • Director

The Galicia-based Chilean filmmaker is presenting his as-yet-unseen debut film, Faro sin isla, in the Géneros Mutantes section of the Gijón Film Festival  

26/11/2014

Luis Marías  • Director

“There’s nothing more fun than directing a movie”

Luis Marías • Director

Fuego, the second movie by the Basque director, is a dramatic thriller about the violence caused by terrorism; the only Spanish movie in competition in Gijón  

24/11/2014

Dimitri Eipides  • Head of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival

"I don't want this festival to be snuffed out for any reason - it deserves to last longer"

Dimitri Eipides • Head of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Cineuropa met up with Dimitri Eipides to talk about how he felt about the latest edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the gathering’s...  

20/11/2014

Fabrice Du Welz • Director

Genre movies, magic realism and poetic cinema

Fabrice Du Welz • Director

Meeting with the Belgian director to talk about Alleluia, unveiled at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight.  

20/11/2014

Astrid Thorvaldsen  • Director

"The familiar and identifiable in everyday life is often more frightening than the monstrosities"

Astrid Thorvaldsen • Director

Young Norwegian director Astrid Thorvaldsen spoke to Cineuropa about her first feature-length work, Utburd, a horror film  

18/11/2014

Mia  Hansen-Løve • Director

"The true star of the movie is the music"

Mia Hansen-Løve • Director

The French director reflects on the Eden adventure, an ambitious and successful fiction film at the heart of the emergence of French Touch.  

17/11/2014

Daniel Ziskind  • Representative of ZAD

"The revolutions are encouraging producers and directors to look at more hard-hitting material"

Daniel Ziskind • Representative of ZAD

Cineuropa met up with Daniel Ziskind, who has just produced the film El Ott by Ibrahim El Batout, which premiered at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival  

14/11/2014

Pascale Ferran  • Director

“Today, the only possible revolution is an individual one”

Pascale Ferran • Director

Parisian filmmaker Pascale Ferran has competed in Seville’s Official Section with Bird People, a fable about flying your way to happiness  

14/11/2014

Sergi Pérez  • Director

“We don't want to live on the margins of cinema”

Sergi Pérez • Director

The Long Way Home, Sergi Pérez's debut film, was the only Spanish title in the official section of Seville: we spoke to him  

13/11/2014

Ángel Santos  • Director

“We look at scenery from a cinephile persepctive”

Ángel Santos • Director

Following its debut at Busan and Seville, The High Pressures by Ángel Santos touches down. The intimate and geographical journey of a wandering man  

12/11/2014

Claudio Noce  • Director

“A dark fairytale anchored to reality”

Claudio Noce • Director

The Ice Forest, the new film by Claudio Noce, will be released on 13 November. We met up with the filmmaker as he presented it at the Rome Film Festival  

12/11/2014

Kristian Milic • Director

Politics do not belong in film

Kristian Milic • Director

Kristijan Milic's speaks to Cineuropa about his second feature film Number 55, his experience from the 90s war in Croatia and his affinity for genre films.  

07/11/2014

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