Interviews

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

7488 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 17/04/2024. 579 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“I like to fully embrace my outsider status”
Antonio Méndez Esparza  • DirectorFollowing his award-winning debut Aquí y allá, Antonio Méndez Esparza is back with Life and Nothing More,...  
29/09/2017 | San Sebastián 2017 | Competition 
“When I find myself in a situation I didn’t expect, I try to embrace it.”
Antonio Méndez Esparza • Director of Courtroom 3HMadrid-born director Antonio Méndez Esparza, now settled in the USA, returns with a new bid for the Golden...  
25/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition
"We all make up stories in our head"
Antonio Méndez Esparza  • Director of Something Is About to HappenThe American-based Spanish filmmaker talks about his co-production between his home country and Romania,...  
26/10/2023 | Seminci 2023
"I was always curious what it's like to be a teenager with a mobile phone in your hand"
Sonia Méndez • Director of As NevesThe Galician filmmaker has used first-time actors and isolated landscapes to discuss digitalised youth,...  
13/03/2024 | Malaga 2024
"I trust the actors' instincts"
Brillante Mendoza • DirectorA quest for truth and trust in one's actors. The Filipino filmmaker behind Captive explains his vision.  
13/02/2012
Interview
Brillante Mendoza • directorCineuropa caught up with director Brillante Mendoza, whose film Lola, co-produced by French producer and...  
“We all lie, all the time”
Filippo Meneghetti  • Director of Two of UsCineuropa met up with director Filippo Meneghetti at Unifrance’s 22nd Rendez-vous with French Cinema to...  
22/01/2020 | /France/Luxembourg/Belgium
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Margaret Menegoz • President of UnifranceInterview accordé l'occasion du 16ieme Festival du Film Français au Japon (13 - 18 Mars 2008 à Tokyo et Osaka)  
13/03/2008
"Loyal to a great author"
Margaret Menegoz • ProducerDirector since 1975 of production, distribution and international sales company Les Films du Losange,...  
30/09/2005
"Ambition is not solely about money and casting"
Cyril Mennegun • DirectorCyril Mennegun deciphers the surprising success of Louise Wimmer and talks about his second feature film,...  
02/04/2013
“The storyline’s authenticity was paramount”
Kenneth Mercken • Director of CoureurCineuropa sat down with Belgian director Kenneth Mercken to talk about fictionalising his real-life story...  
30/01/2019 | IFFR 2019 | Limelight
"This kind of impassioned involvement in politics took me back to my childhood years"
Christian Carmosino Mereu • Director of Land of Upright PeopleVENICE 2022: The Italian helmer chats about his documentary, which he shot in Burkina Faso from the 2014...  
04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori
Salvatore Mereu • DirectorTwo girls living in a downtrodden Cagliari neighborhood star in an exhilarating, bitter comedy  
06/09/2012
Mereu’s anti-hero Sonétaula
Salvatore Mereu • Director07/03/2008
“When you choose a book to adapt, you do it almost on an unconscious level”
Salvatore Mereu • Director of AssandiraVENICE 2020: We talked to Salvatore Mereu, the director of Assandira, based on the novel by Giulio Angioni  
10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition
"This farmer, whose way of life is so distant from our own, reminds us that we don't have the right relationship with nature"
Salvatore Mereu • Director of BentuVENICE 2022: The director follows the day-to-day life of an elderly farmer as he waits for the wind to...  
09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

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