Interviews

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

7478 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/03/2024. 581 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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Rebecca Zlotowski  • Director of An Easy Girl

“It’s time for women to re-embrace our sexy stereotypes, and play with them with power and pride”

Rebecca Zlotowski • Director of An Easy Girl

CANNES 2019: We caught up with Rebecca Zlotowski to discuss An Easy Girl, which plays with sexual...  

23/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Rebecca Zlotowski • Director of Other People’s Children

“I felt that Rachel was the person I needed to be at a certain point and could not be”

Rebecca Zlotowski • Director of Other People’s Children

VENICE 2022: We chatted with the French director, who has crafted her new feature as a cinematic...  

10/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Sameh Zoabi  • Director

"An artist trapped in a political situation where everyone wants different things of him"

Sameh Zoabi • Director

VENICE 2018: Israeli-Palestinian filmmaker Sameh Zoabi breaks down his comedy Tel Aviv on Fire, which was...  

03/09/2018 | Venice 2018 | Orizzonti

Anne Zohra Berrached  • Director

“How must it feel to abort an almost complete human being?”

Anne Zohra Berrached • Director

BERLIN 2016: German writer-director Anne Zohra Berrached, whose 24 Weeks screened in the Berlinale...  

19/02/2016

Yorgos Zois  • Director

“A voice of authority can manipulate us and be in control of all our acts”

Yorgos Zois • Director

VENICE 2015: Greek director Yorgos Zois explains how he played with conventions in his Orizzonti-selected...  

15/09/2015

Yorgos Zois  • Director of Arcadia

"I always like it when somebody takes me by the hand into a journey to the unknown"

Yorgos Zois • Director of Arcadia

BERLINALE 2024: The Greek director delves into his second film, a haunting story of love, loss, acceptance...  

04/03/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Encounters

Virág Zomborácz  • Director

"I still see people queuing to see arthouse films"

Virág Zomborácz • Director

Cineuropa met up with Virág Zomborácz, the director of Afterlife, the winner of the Bergamo Film Meeting  

17/03/2015

Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis • Directors of Heads or Tails?

"We wanted to do a full-on western film. A real western, like they used to shoot in the old days: gritty, dirty and savage"

Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis • Directors of Heads or Tails?

We spoke to the second winners of this year’s CineMart Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, who are...  

10/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | IFFR Pro

Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis  • Directors of The Tale of King Crab

“The role of Luciano grew with our lead actor; he really became the character”

Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis • Directors of The Tale of King Crab

CANNES 2021: The Italian duo have presented their first feature film, set in a fictional 19th century, in...  

13/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis  • Directors

“We believe in a cinema of omission”

Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis • Directors

With Il Solengo, Italian filmmakers Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis are already consolidating a...  

09/02/2016

Fernando Franco and Koldo Zuazua • Director and producer of The Rite of Spring

"We dance well together; we complement each other perfectly"

Fernando Franco and Koldo Zuazua • Director and producer of The Rite of Spring

We get to talk with the two experienced professionals, who with this film complete their third...  

22/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | Competition

2009 Producer on the Move - Spain

Koldo Zuazua

28/04/2009

Paolo Zucca  • Director

"I have been inspired by Shakespeare"

Paolo Zucca • Director

Italian filmmaker Paolo Zucca talks to us about his project L’uomo che comprò la Luna, at the Cinemed...  

27/10/2016

Paolo Zucca • Director

Venice Days 2013

Paolo Zucca • Director

Director Paolo Zucca speaks about his feature debut L'arbitro, born from the short by the same name, which...  

01/09/2013

Video - Trieste Film Festival 2009

Andrzej Zuławski, director

Żuławski talks about training in Central and Eastern Europe, about cinema and communism  

"Cinema must be as a peacock's tail"

Andrzej Zulawski • Director

10/06/2005

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