Interviews

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

8480 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 13/10/2025. 658 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Bérangère McNeese • Director of The Girls From Above

"I wanted to explore the limits of a group, how it can sometimes provide a home but one whose doors are locked and bolted"

Bérangère McNeese • Director of The Girls From Above

The Belgian actress chatted with us about her first feature-length directorial effort which follows a young woman who finds refuge with a gang of girls  

13/10/2025 | Namur 2025

Eliza Subotowicz • Head of Industry, Warsaw Film Festival

"We want Warsaw to become a hub for international co-productions and a natural meeting place for filmmakers across Central and Eastern Europe"

Eliza Subotowicz • Head of Industry, Warsaw Film Festival

With the launch of Warsaw Industry Days, the Polish festival is reasserting its role as a key platform for national cinema while strengthening ties with...  

13/10/2025 | Warsaw 2025 | Warsaw Industry Days

Mascha Schilinski • Director of Sound of Falling

"We wanted to talk about the way women have been perceived over a hundred years”

Mascha Schilinski • Director of Sound of Falling

Cineuropa met the German filmmaker, winner of the Jury Prize in Cannes and her country’s representative for the upcoming Best International Feature Oscar  

13/10/2025 | /Germany

Bartek Pulcyn • Artistic director, Warsaw Film Festival

“The role of our festival is to shed light on what is valuable”

Bartek Pulcyn • Artistic director, Warsaw Film Festival

Warsaw’s new artistic director discusses the changes he has introduced to the structure of the event, unspooling from 10-19 October  

10/10/2025 | Warsaw 2025

Daniela Elstner • Managing director, Unifrance

"We want to make cinema more accessible, to show that it’s not just a dusty old thing for old people and that it can reinvent itself"

Daniela Elstner • Managing director, Unifrance

The French agency head chatted with us about MyMetaStories, the highly original European film festival unspooling online and primarily within Minecraft  

09/10/2025 | /France

James McAvoy • Director of California Schemin'

“It’s important for me as a storyteller to entertain people and make them laugh before I make them cry”

James McAvoy • Director of California Schemin'

The Scotsman breaks down his directorial debut, a comedy based on the true story of a Scottish rapping duo who pretended to be American  

09/10/2025 | Zurich 2025

Veronika Hafner • Director of Obhut

“There was the big question of how we could show children in a way that wouldn’t reproduce what we were criticising”

Veronika Hafner • Director of Obhut

The Munich-based director explains how she created her debut feature, with a story informed heavily by her parallel career as a psychotherapist for children...  

09/10/2025 | Zurich 2025

Jonas Ulrich • Director of Wolves

“I always dreamed of a film taking place in the black metal world, which would also take it seriously”

Jonas Ulrich • Director of Wolves

The Zurich-based director shares the story behind his creative deep dive into the fascinating subculture of black metal, including building a real band from...  

09/10/2025 | Zurich 2025

Andrea Segre • Director of The Great Ambition

"We wanted to make a film with Enrico Berlinguer, not about Enrico Berlinguer"

Andrea Segre • Director of The Great Ambition

The director talks about his film, charting the innovative project led by Italian politician Enrico Berlinguer, a little-known name from the world of deeply...  

08/10/2025 | /Italy/Belgium/Bulgaria

Isabelle Fauvel • Head, Silence&Conversation

“The sensory dimension naturally led us to discuss images, sound and directing – the great forgotten element in today’s development conversations”

Isabelle Fauvel • Head, Silence&Conversation

The film professional explains more about the Cook Your Project programme, an innovative scheme that blends cooking and film writing  

08/10/2025 | /France

Milan Skrobanek • Director of The Unspoken Language

“I wanted to show how two people who cannot easily communicate with each other can still fall in love”

Milan Skrobanek • Director of The Unspoken Language

The German director discusses what inspired him to tell a story about the relationship between a deaf woman and a visually impaired man  

08/10/2025 | Hamburg 2025

Mario Bova • Director, Euro Balkan Film Festival

“The festival offers audiences a selection of testimonies that move from the anguish of war towards hope for the future”

Mario Bova • Director, Euro Balkan Film Festival

The festival director discusses how cinema can help heal the wounds of memory, and his goal of building bridges between the Balkans and Western Europe  

01/10/2025 | /Italy

Harris Dickinson • Director of Urchin

“They’re definitely very separate for me, the roles of director and actor”

Harris Dickinson • Director of Urchin

The rising star, both in front of and behind the camera, talks us through his hard-hitting directorial debut, about a young rough sleeper in the midst of a...  

01/10/2025 | Dinard 2025

Stephan De Potter, Marc Smit • Distributors, Cinéart

“We try to select films that provide meaning and open people’s eyes to certain realities of life”

Stephan De Potter, Marc Smit • Distributors, Cinéart

We head to the Netherlands and Belgium to speak to the pair of distributors about the particulars of working across the Benelux region  

30/09/2025 | Distributor of the Month

Agnieszka Rostropowicz • Director, Filmatura Literary Film Festival

“It’s a real celebration of cinema and literature”

Agnieszka Rostropowicz • Director, Filmatura Literary Film Festival

The festival head chats to us about her event and about how she wants to welcome an open-minded, curious audience  

29/09/2025 | /Poland

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