Interviews

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

7490 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 19/04/2024. 579 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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Leire Apellaniz and Marc Sempere-Moya • Directors of Cosmic Chant. Niño de Elche

“We were both enraptured when we saw him on stage”

Leire Apellaniz and Marc Sempere-Moya • Directors of Cosmic Chant. Niño de Elche

The filmmaking duo got up close and personal with the unorthodox Andalusian artist to assemble a collage...  

04/02/2022 | /Spain

Partho Sen-Gupta  • Director of Slam

“We live in a state of violence”

Partho Sen-Gupta • Director of Slam

Cineuropa met up with Indian-born director Partho Sen-Gupta to discuss his new film, Slam, after its world...  

29/11/2018 | Black Nights 2018 | Competition

Shaunak Sen  • Director of All That Breathes

"The most important thing was to build a relationship of trust to be able to shoot with the whole family"

Shaunak Sen • Director of All That Breathes

CANNES 2022: New Delhi’s notoriously polluted air is in the centre of the acclaimed documentary by the...  

01/06/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Special Screenings

BIFFF - Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2010

Cristopher Roth, by Max Sender

Interview with the director of the movie presented in competition at the BIFFF.  

Ena Sendijarević  • Director of Sweet Dreams

“It's my job to learn, to educate myself and to try to understand more about this world through cinema”

Ena Sendijarević • Director of Sweet Dreams

The Amsterdam-based Bosnian director gives us the low-down on how she made her idiosyncratic period film...  

10/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Ena Sendijarević  • Director of Take Me Somewhere Nice

"We can become anyone we want once we realise that we can construct our own reality"

Ena Sendijarević • Director of Take Me Somewhere Nice

We chatted to emerging director-scriptwriter Ena Sendijarević to find out more about her debut feature...  

27/01/2019 | IFFR 2019 | Tiger Competition

Guillaume Senez • Director

"What happens if the balance is thrown out of kilter?"

Guillaume Senez • Director

CANNES 2018: We met up with Guillaume Senez, whose second feature, Our Struggles, toplined by Romain...  

13/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Critics’ Week

Guillaume Senez  ­• Director

“There is something very beautiful about adolescence… the spontaneity of it”

Guillaume Senez ­• Director

LOCARNO 2015: Cineuropa meets Franco-Belgian director Guillaume Senez, whose moving and gripping feature...  

13/08/2015

Aditya Vikram Sengupta  • Director

Interview - Venice Days 2014

Aditya Vikram Sengupta • Director

VENICE 2014: Indian director Aditya Vikram Sengupta brings a moving story to Venice Days about a husband...  

02/09/2014

Love triangle against the backdrop of immigration

Sören Senn • Director

20/06/2006

Oleg Sentsov  • Director of Numbers

“When you are able to topple the old regime, that does not automatically mean you are able to build a better one”

Oleg Sentsov • Director of Numbers

BERLINALE 2020: Ukrainian helmer Oleh Sentsov, who made his new film, Numbers, while in prison, talked to...  

03/03/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Special

Edith Sepp • CEO, Estonian Film Institute

“Platforms are like what US-based studios used to be”

Edith Sepp • CEO, Estonian Film Institute

The CEO of Estonia’s national film agency answered some questions about the body’s schemes and activities,...  

16/03/2022 | /Estonia

Edith Sepp • Head, Estonian Film Institute

"EFM is the kick-off of the cycle, and we can see the results in Cannes or in Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival"

Edith Sepp • Head, Estonian Film Institute

BERLINALE 2020: Edith Sepp, head of the Estonian Film Institute, met up with us to give us the lowdown on...  

02/03/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

Rodrigo Sepúlveda • Director of My Tender Matador

"From the very first moment, you realise that this love story will end up as a tragedy"

Rodrigo Sepúlveda • Director of My Tender Matador

VENICE 2020: Rodrigo Sepúlveda talks to us about My Tender Matador, which tells a gay love story set in...  

12/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Florin Şerban  • Director

“I am a teenager who, in many respects, refuses to grow up”

Florin Şerban • Director

When one shoots in wild locations, one must be prepared, says Romanian director Florin Şerban, whose Love...  

22/08/2018 | Sarajevo 2018 | Competition

Goran Stolevski, Alina Serban • Director of and actress in Housekeeping for Beginners

“In order to have a meaningful representation, we needed to allow our characters to act like arseholes”

Goran Stolevski, Alina Serban • Director of and actress in Housekeeping for Beginners

VENICE 2023: The Macedonian-Australian director reunites with one of his actresses to break down a movie...  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

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