Interviews

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

7476 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 27/03/2024. 583 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 

"Cinema is a non-violent weapon to change things"

Nadine Labaki • Director

Where do we go now? by Lebanon’s Nadine Labaki won several awards, including the Toronto Film Festival’s People's Choice Award.  

18/01/2012

From LA to the Estonian guerrilla

Brad Jurjens • Director

The director of action films such as Hired Gun tells Cineuropa about moving from Estonia to LA and his recent return to cast his new project  

13/01/2012

"The storyboard is where you write the film in cinematic language"

Ignacio Ferreras • Director

The Spanish director talks about the challenge of directing Wrinkles, an animated film adapted from a comic book about the themes of old age, Alzheimer's...  

11/01/2012

"If I hadn’t also produced it, this film would probably not have been made"

Gerardo Herrero • Director

One of the leading producers of Spanish cinema has for years combined producing with directing, and now presents his fifteenth film, Frozen Silence: a war...  

11/01/2012

“I reclaim dignity, because it is undervalued nowadays”

Álex de la Iglesia • Director

The vibrant former president of the Spanish Film Academy talks to Cineuropa about As Luck Would Have It, starring comedian José Mota and Mexican thesp Salma...  

03/01/2012

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Eric Anselin • LuxAnimation

The heads of Luxembourg-based animation production company tell us about the secrets to their work.  

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Arben Zharku • President of the Kosovo Cinematographic Centre

"Our budget increases every year and it’s enough to kick-start our industry"  

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Memli Krasniqi • Kosovo's Minister of Culture

"Europe is finally taking concrete steps towards Kosovo"  

Creative Motor

Uli Aselmann • Producer, die film gmbh

Uli Aselmann tells German Films Quarterly about the production outfit die film gmbh, which he created in 1997  

12/12/2011

“If you think you can change the world with a movie, you're on the wrong track”

Michael Glawogger • Director

Cineuropa spoke with Austrian director Michael Glawogger after the screening of his documentary Whores’ Glory, in competition at the Gijón Film Festival  

08/12/2011

"If they spend a quarter of an hour explaining what the film is about, I'm not interested&#"

Julio Fernández • Producer

Filmax, a recognised brand for genre cinema. Its director tells us what makes it work  

05/12/2011

“You mustn’t accept misfortune as fate”

Cédric Kahn • Director

Excessive debt, family, love, survival: the French director explains the reasons that drove him to make A Better Life.  

02/12/2011

Simple stories, important topics

Nejc Gazvoda • Director

At 26, the promising Slovenian director has made a generational debut feature, shot over 14 days for €180,000.  

02/12/2011

"Great things can be born out of a crisis"

Alice Rohrwacher • Director

Analysis of Corpo Celeste, selected in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2011, the debut narrative feature by a young Italian director trained in documentary...  

02/12/2011

"We are alive and well"

Andrew G. Vajna • Hungarian Film Commissioner

A meeting with the current main man of a Hungarian industry that has seen financial difficulty during the past couple of years  

02/12/2011

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