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Weekly feature introducing you to film professionals from all over Europe sorted by name.
8142 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 10/04/2025. 655 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.
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“We didn’t know anything about adoption, Jasmine took us inside this vast and complex world”
VENICE 2024: The directorial duo told us about the making of their second feature film, which reconnects...
11/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti Extra
"Our guideline is always realism"
VENICE 2021: The third film (and first fiction feature) made as a joint effort by the two directors was...
07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori
"It is good to keep co-financing as active as co-producing"
08/10/2007
“Crowdfunding is becoming more common and better defined”
In the run-up to the first edition of Brussels’ Frontières Market, Cineuropa talks to Finnish producer...
03/04/2014
“You recognise yourself better in the past than in the present”
We caught up with Lithuanian director Karolis Kaupinis to delve deeper into his feature debut, Nova Lituania
04/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | East of the West
“We are all the same; we are all human”
BERLIN 2017: Finnish writer-director Aki Kaurismäki spoke to the international press at the Berlinale to...
15/02/2017
My characters, hopeless optimists
Le Havre describes a world of marginalised individuals who express great mutual solidarity and it even has...
24/11/2011
"Cut & Print"!
Cinema the Finnish Way: no money, a few shadows and just one take
22/05/2002
Interview - Lecce European Film Festival 2013
Cineuropa met Aki Kaurismäki at the fourteenth edition of the European film festival in Lecce (8-13 April...
“There is coronavirus, but there is also Corona Bar”
Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki assures us that only the finest wines were imbibed during the making of...
30/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Competition
“I like tragicomedies where something that you look at closely may seem very sad, and when you look from farther away, it can be very funny”
The Finnish director told us how he proceeded when adapting the story of a grumpy old man with a passion...
24/11/2022 | /Finland
“Nothing is ever simple and straightforward”
Lithuanian director living in Paris Alanté Kavaïté decodes her second feature, The Summer of Sangaile,...
16/01/2015
Fissures
13/06/2007
“This was an extremely ambitious film on our budget, but I think we pulled it off”
We met up with Ireland's Ivan Kavanagh, the writer-director of the western Never Grow Old, set to be...
15/03/2019
“My goal was to tell a love story”
The Lithuanian filmmaker lets the bodies do the talking in her touching romance involving a contemporary...
20/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition
"I send my love to those people who see themselves or their loved ones in our characters"
We chatted to Lithuanian director-scriptwriter Marija Kavtaradzė about her feature debut, Summer...
19/09/2018 | Toronto 2018 | Discovery
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