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.

 
Dieter Kosslick  • Director, Berlin Film Festival

“The starting signal for a new campaign”

Dieter Kosslick • Director, Berlin Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival director Dieter Kosslick speaks to Cineuropa about this year’s festival programme, technological changes and the new...  

04/02/2015

Christiana Wertz  • BLS Südtirol Alto Adige

In Berlin with two films in the official competition

Christiana Wertz • BLS Südtirol Alto Adige

Cineuropa spoke to Christiana Wertz, since 2009 head of the Film Fund & Commission, about the outcome for 2014 and a focus on new goals for the future  

03/02/2015

Lukas Valenta Rinner  • Director

"It's an Austrian thing to focus on social issues or have quite radical points of view"

Lukas Valenta Rinner • Director

Cineuropa spoke to Lukas Valenta Rinner about his debut, Parabellum, a film shot in real survival camps in Argentina and presented at Rotterdam  

02/02/2015

Petri Kemppinen  • CEO of the Nordisk Film and TV Fund

"We have a responsibility as safe-keepers, but we also encourage evolution"

Petri Kemppinen • CEO of the Nordisk Film and TV Fund

Cineuropa met up with Petri Kemppinen, CEO of the Nordisk Film and TV Fund since 2013, to discuss the current and future challenges for the institution  

30/01/2015

Zvonimir Jurić  • Director

“I am interested in things that the war brought to the surface”

Zvonimir Jurić • Director

Cineuropa chatted to Zvonimir Juric, director of The Reaper, about his approach to the film's narrative form and the Croatian film industry's current...  

30/01/2015

Jörn Donner  • Director and producer

"Armi was a successful, self-made, woman entrepreneur – they were unusual in the 1960s"

Jörn Donner • Director and producer

Cineuropa sat down with Finnish director and producer Jörn Donner to discuss his new feature film about the founder of Marimekko, Armi Alive!  

29/01/2015

Tanja Meissner  • Exporter

Memento Films International continues to focus on ambitions

Tanja Meissner • Exporter

Cineuropa spoke to Memento Films International's Tanja Meissner: focus on the line-up and international sales strategy of the French company a few days...  

29/01/2015

Jonas Holmberg  • Artistic director, Göteborg International Film Festival

“The curiosity, intelligence and open minds of our audience never cease to surprise me”

Jonas Holmberg • Artistic director, Göteborg International Film Festival

Cineuropa spoke to Jonas Holmberg, Göteborg International Film Festival artistic director, how he stepped up to his new role and the way in which the...  

28/01/2015

Cia Edström  • Head of the Nordic Film Market, Göteborg International Film Festival

"The NFM is the principal market place for new features and TV drama in Scandinavia"

Cia Edström • Head of the Nordic Film Market, Göteborg International Film Festival

Cineuropa chatted to Cia Edström about the evolution of the Nordic film industry and the Nordic Film Market event taking place at the Göteborg International...  

27/01/2015

Christian Petzold  • Director

Non-places, women in cinema and German denial

Christian Petzold • Director

The new film by Christian Petzold, Phoenix, has as its heroine a woman who returns disfigured from a concentration camp. Cineuropa interviewed the German...  

23/01/2015

Nicolas Wadimoff  • Director

"I switch between being completely spontaneous and well organised. It's a matter of sensitivity"

Nicolas Wadimoff • Director

Cineuropa chatted to the Swiss director Nicolas Wadimoff about his latest film, Spartans  

22/01/2015

Jean-Pierre Candeloro  • Head of the Laboratory of Visual Culture

“We place particular importance on an international approach and attitude”

Jean-Pierre Candeloro • Head of the Laboratory of Visual Culture

Cineuropa chatted to Jean-Pierre Candeloro, head of the Laboratory of Visual Culture (SUPSI) and of the i_doc workshop, to find out more about his school  

20/01/2015

Charlotte Blom  • Director

"Home sweet home is nice, but celebrating is even better"

Charlotte Blom • Director

Cineuropa met with Charlotte Blom, the young Norwegian director who has just shot her first feature, Staying Alive  

20/01/2015

Alanté Kavaïté  • Director

“Nothing is ever simple and straightforward”

Alanté Kavaïté • Director

Lithuanian director living in Paris Alanté Kavaïté decodes her second feature, The Summer of Sangaile, unveiled in competition at the Sundance Film Festival  

16/01/2015

Seraina Rohrer  • Director of the Solothurn Film Festival

"We've decided to not only look back but rather to tackle the challenges to come"

Seraina Rohrer • Director of the Solothurn Film Festival

Seraina Rohrer, director of the Solothurn Film Festival since 2011, talks to us with passion and determination about the festival's 50th edition  

13/01/2015

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