Interviews

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

7493 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 24/04/2024. 581 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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Marit van den Elshout  • Head, IFFR Pro CineMart & Hubert Bals Fund

"The audience is looking for something real and meaningful that can stir the mind and the soul"

Marit van den Elshout • Head, IFFR Pro CineMart & Hubert Bals Fund

Cineuropa chatted to Marit van den Elshout, head of IFFR Pro (25-30 January), about what to expect from...  

23/01/2019 | IFFR 2019 | IFFR Pro

Marit van den Elshout  • Head of CineMart

“We would like to become a partner for filmmakers from all over the globe”

Marit van den Elshout • Head of CineMart

Cineuropa caught up with the head of CineMart, Marit van den Elshout, to discuss the upcoming edition of...  

28/01/2016

Marjan van der Haar  •  Managing Director International Film Festival Rotterdam

“If you really focus on how to bring the programme and make it balanced, you can really focus on younger audiences as well”

Marjan van der Haar • Managing Director International Film Festival Rotterdam

Marjan van der Haar describes the atmosphere and particularities of the International Film Festival in...  

11/07/2023 | Euro Film Fest

Silvia van der Heiden  • Director, Nederlands Film Festival

"Our aim is to contribute to the development of the Dutch film and media industry – the HFM is one of the efforts to achieve that"

Silvia van der Heiden • Director, Nederlands Film Festival

We chatted to the director of the Nederlands Film Festival, Silvia van der Heiden, to get the low-down on...  

19/09/2019 | Nederlands Film Festival 2019

Kristian Van der Heyden  • Producer, Harald House

“We won’t need VOD platforms anymore to share and monetize a film"

Kristian Van der Heyden • Producer, Harald House

The 2022 Emerging Producer from Belgium talks about the impact documentary films can have, both in the...  

04/03/2022 | Emerging Producers 2022

Floor van der Meulen • Director of Pink Moon

“We no longer know if we should laugh or cry about it. But that’s life, isn’t it?”

Floor van der Meulen • Director of Pink Moon

The Dutch filmmaker talks to us about her Tribeca-awarded film, which is now in competition at Les Arcs...  

14/12/2022 | Les Arcs 2022

Melissa van der Schoor  • Content manager, IFFR Unleashed

“Unleashed gives independent filmmakers a proactive way to find a new audience”

Melissa van der Schoor • Content manager, IFFR Unleashed

We chatted to Melissa van der Schoor, content manager of IFFR Unleashed, about what the festival’s new...  

31/01/2018 | IFFR 2018

Guido van der Werve • Director of The Breath of Life

“Cinema is a solution to what I want to do, and that is to touch people”

Guido van der Werve • Director of The Breath of Life

We spoke to the Dutch director about his intimate self-portrait, in which he processes a dramatic life...  

08/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Tiger Competition

Jaco van Dormael  • Director

"Spending time on a set with your friends is a fantastic job"

Jaco van Dormael • Director

CANNES 2015: Belgian director Jaco van Dormael sat down with Cineuropa following the world premiere of his...  

22/05/2015

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Jaco Van Dormael • Director

Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael talks about his most experimental film, Mr. Nobody  

Accident and choice

Jaco Van Dormael • Director

Cinergie met with the Belgian director of Toto the Hero and The Eighth Day, while he was in the middle of...  

23/06/2007

Els van Driel  • Co-director of The Mind Game

“We hope to give faces and voices to the many untold stories of suffering involving people on the move”

Els van Driel • Co-director of The Mind Game

One of the co-directors delves into her documentary revolving around the two-year odyssey of a young...  

26/10/2023 | Human Rights Film Festival Berlin 2023

“The film explains less than the original comic”

Guidovan Driel • Director

Dutch graphic novelist Guido van Driel adapted one of his own works for his first feature project: The...  

18/02/2013

Amélie van Elmbt  • Director

"My work is based on meetings that occur both in fiction and in real life"

Amélie van Elmbt • Director

We met up with Belgian director Amélie van Elmbt, whose latest film The Elephant and the Butterfly comes...  

22/11/2017

Jan-Willem van Ewijk  • Director

“When I shoot, I look for real things”

Jan-Willem van Ewijk • Director

Cineuropa caught up with Jan-Willem van Ewijk ahead of the Dutch release of his second feature, Atlantic.  

24/02/2015

Clara van Gool  • Director of The Beast in the Jungle

“You can evoke more passion with a dance move than you can with a dialogue”

Clara van Gool • Director of The Beast in the Jungle

We chatted to Dutch director Clara van Gool to get the low-down on her IFFR-screened The Beast in the...  

31/01/2019 | IFFR 2019 | Limelight

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