Interviews

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

7531 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 15/05/2024. 582 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 

Interview

Emanuele Crialese • Director

The director is not involved in an organisation to defend his authors’ rights: “We should fight the system with our work, more than with our names!”  

Swiss cinema at its peak

Ursula Meier • Director

Cineuropa met the French-Swiss director awarded in Berlin for Sister.  

22/03/2012

“I would rather that my films generate discussion over mere praise”

Nacho Vigalondo • Director

The director of Timecrimes is back with Extraterrestrial, a romantic comedy with a UFO hovering in the background. A low-budget film with a great sense of...  

22/03/2012

Fribourg, a triple heritage

Thierry Jobin • Artistic director of the Fribourg Film Festival

"Fribourg is, first of all, a form of curiosity, of taste for marginal cinematography"  

20/03/2012

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Peter Wintonick • Director

14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival: Director Peter Wintonick discusses the importance of co-productions in a survival of the fittest environment  

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Jan Rofekamp • Film Transit International

Jan Rofekamp explains how sales agents can guide filmmakers through the various stages and forms of showcasing his film to secure sales  

Learning new production strategies and exchanging experiences

Graziella Bildesheim • Programme Director for MAIA Workshops

Three intensive seminars in Poland and Italy on the creative, marketing and distribution aspects, legal and financial issues.  

20/03/2012

From a steamy sauna to the world screen

Timo Vuorensola • Director

Finnish director talks about inventing a local sci-fi from scratch, starting in 2006, how it was saved by crowd funding and is now selling in more than 70...  

20/03/2012

“I am mostly proud that we didn't fail”

Nikolaj Arcel • Director

The Danish director talks about leaving the present for an 18th-century love and political drama.  

20/03/2012

Driven by curiosity

Titus Kreyenberg • Producer, unafilm

Turkey remains one of the key destinations in the map of German company unafilm. Seyfi Teoman’s Saints is set to shoot this autumn  

13/03/2012

Là-bas, a Gomorra of the black community

Guido Lombardi • Director

Guido Lombardi's excellent debut, awarded at the Venice Film Festival 2011, and the future projects of a young, talented and brave author.  

07/03/2012

"European culture: a very rich puzzle"

Radu Mihaileanu • Director

Director Radu Mihaileanu talks about European cinema’s prism of cultural values, problematics of the industry, and humour.  

06/03/2012

Interview

Rodrigo Cortés • Director

“Collapsing regimes and how you can survive in them”

Christian Petzold • Director

In Competition at the Berlinale for the third time, Christian Petzold won the Silver Bear for Best Director with Barbara. Read here extracts from the press...  

02/03/2012

Interview

Babis Makridis • Director

L is the feature debut of Babis Makridis, a new face of the Greek New Wave. The film had its world premiere at the last Sundance Film Festival  

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