Interviews

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

7476 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 27/03/2024. 583 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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Alessandro Giacobbe • Distributor, Academy Two

“We just have to wait and try to be optimistic because the material is there”

Alessandro Giacobbe • Distributor, Academy Two

Alessandro Giacobbe, Managing Director of Academy Two, broke down for us the main challenges for...  

19/11/2020 | /Italy

Alessandro Giacobbe • Managing Director, Academy Two

“Without regulation on media windows, buying quality films in foreign markets doesn’t make sense”

Alessandro Giacobbe • Managing Director, Academy Two

The independent cinema operator and distributor has written a letter to Italy's Minister of Culture to...  

16/06/2022 | /Italy

Ole Giæver • Director

"I try to understand, as an explorer, what it means to be human"

Ole Giæver • Director

BERLIN 2017: Cineuropa caught up with Norwegian director Ole Giæver, who is presenting his latest feature...  

12/02/2017

Ole Giæver  • Director

"To make your presence felt in the world, first of all you need to make it felt to yourself"

Ole Giæver • Director

Cineuropa met up with Norwegian filmmaker Ole Giæver, the director of Out of Nature, which was presented...  

16/09/2014

Ole Giæver • Director of Let the River Flow

“I’ve also had my Sámi awakening”

Ole Giæver • Director of Let the River Flow

The Norwegian director opens up about the fight surrounding the construction of the Alta Dam, and telling...  

16/03/2023 | /Norway/Finland

Francesco Giai Via  • Artistic director, Annecy Italian Film Festival

"A festival with a strong identity"

Francesco Giai Via • Artistic director, Annecy Italian Film Festival

We met up with Francesco Giai Via, the new artistic director of the Annecy Italian Film Festival  

25/09/2017

Francesco Giai Via  • Head of Studies, Alpi Film Lab

“Environmental sustainability and gender equality should be seen as part of our new professional DNA”

Francesco Giai Via • Head of Studies, Alpi Film Lab

We chatted with Head of Studies Francesco Giai Via who’s overseeing this programme on Italian-French...  

08/04/2022 | Italy/France

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Paul Giamatti • Actor

Golden Globe winner actor Paul Giamatti talks about his experience playing King John of England in...  

Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari  • Directors

“We have seen the migrants’ strength and their beauty”

Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari • Directors

Cineuropa sat down with Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari, directors of Spectres Are Haunting Europe,...  

28/11/2016

Xavier Giannoli  • Co-director of Of Money and Blood

"I’m not interested in the events, but in their shadow"

Xavier Giannoli • Co-director of Of Money and Blood

The director of Lost Illusions, along with Frederic Planchon, co-directed the series based on the book of...  

13/10/2023 | South Series 2023

Xavier Giannoli • Director

"An elusive enigma"

Xavier Giannoli • Director

Xavier Giannoli decrypts The Apparition, an immersion into a canonical investigation starring Vincent...  

12/02/2018

Xavier Giannoli  • Director

"We all need a bit of illusion in our lives"

Xavier Giannoli • Director

VENICE 2015: The French filmmaker Xavier Giannoli deciphers Marguerite, unveiled in competition at the...  

04/09/2015

Superstar: "a disaster film, but with a glimmer of hope”

Xavier Giannoli • Director

Cineuropa met the French director at the 69th Venice Film Festival where he had come to screen Superstar...  

31/08/2012

Xavier Giannoli  • Director of Lost Illusions

“As a filmmaker, I hope that the audience can see the beauty of this civilisation, but also the cruelty”

Xavier Giannoli • Director of Lost Illusions

VENICE 2021: With his adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s work, a long obsession is finally put to rest, with...  

07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Giulia Giapponesi • Director of Bella Ciao - Per la libertà

“A hymn to a type of resistance which unites us all”

Giulia Giapponesi • Director of Bella Ciao - Per la libertà

We met with the director behind the documentary charting the history of a song which has come to symbolise...  

07/04/2022 | Bergamo 2022

Alex Gibney  • Director of Citizen K

“I thought Khodorkovsky’s story might be an opportunity to talk about how power works in Russia”

Alex Gibney • Director of Citizen K

VENICE 2019: American documentarian Alex Gibney discusses his Citizen K and tells Cineuropa a bunch of...  

09/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Out of Competition

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