Interviews

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

8646 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 16/02/2026. 625 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Ilker Çatak  • Director of Yellow Letters

“It was a process of fine-tuning it so that half of the audience would side with the male character and the other half with the female one”

Ilker Çatak • Director of Yellow Letters

BERLINALE 2026: The German helmer unpicks his second feature, about a couple targeted by the state and struggling to balance their ideals with life’s...  

16/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Hanna Bergholm  • Director of Nightborn

“It’s important for art to venture out of its comfort zone because that’s how we experience and discover something new”

Hanna Bergholm • Director of Nightborn

BERLINALE 2026: The director breaks down the central themes of her peculiar horror flick, and discusses the governmental cuts for art and culture in her...  

16/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Tobias Nölle  • Director of Tristan Forever

“The islanders didn’t know how to pretend; it was like working with the best actors”

Tobias Nölle • Director of Tristan Forever

BERLINALE 2026: The Swiss director breaks down his docufiction, which follows a French former doctor on his trip to one of the most remote islands in the...  

15/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

Muriel d’Ansembourg • Director of Truly Naked

“This film is not about porn”

Muriel d’Ansembourg • Director of Truly Naked

BERLINALE 2026: In her feature debut, the US-Dutch director proves that nothing is scarier than real intimacy  

15/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Perspectives

Edwin   • Director of Sleep No More

“Revealing things bit by bit works better – take Jaws, for example”

Edwin • Director of Sleep No More

BERLINALE 2026: The Indonesian director talks about the horror and the comedy of his riotous film set in a wig factory  

14/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Berlinale Special

Alain Gomis • Director of Dao

"A film can be compelling without necessarily relying on that slightly caricatural kind of dramaturgy we’re often pushed into creating”

Alain Gomis • Director of Dao

BERLINALE 2026: The Franco-Senegalese filmmaker discusses his largely non-narrative film, moving back and forth between Guinea-Bissau and France  

14/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Saša Vajda • Director of The Lights, They Fall

“There’s a lot of invisible pain in our society”

Saša Vajda • Director of The Lights, They Fall

BERLINALE 2026: We sat down with the German director to get the low-down on his film about a teenage boy who keeps his problems to himself  

14/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Generation

Leyla Bouzid • Director of In a Whisper

"I wanted the film to take us from an investigation to an examination, and from an external examination to a personal one"

Leyla Bouzid • Director of In a Whisper

BERLINALE 2026: The Tunisian filmmaker sheds light on the secrets unveiled in her new work which explores an incredibly personal exploration brought about...  

14/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Xavier Solano • Director and Head of Studies, EuroCine Lab

“The philosophy of Euro CineLab focuses on the importance of real-world practice”

Xavier Solano • Director and Head of Studies, EuroCine Lab

The training programme aims to give talented young Latin Americans their first professional experience in the European film industry  

13/02/2026 | Europe/Latin America

Danielle Arbid • Director of Only Rebels Win

“The film itself had to resist in order to exist”

Danielle Arbid • Director of Only Rebels Win

BERLINALE 2026: We spoke to the Lebanese-French filmmaker about anger, resistance, casting and why intimacy today feels radical  

13/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

Veronika Slámová • Head, Czech Audiovisual Fund

“We are building stability, rather than chasing isolated successes”

Veronika Slámová • Head, Czech Audiovisual Fund

The new head of the fund outlines how the institution aims to reinforce the Czech Republic’s position as a reliable co-production partner and a competitive...  

11/02/2026 | /Czech Republic

Isa Willinger • Director of No Mercy

“No one wants to be reduced to their gender – and women have a lot of experience in this regard”

Isa Willinger • Director of No Mercy

The German helmer, who is one of the talents in German Films’ Face to Face campaign, breaks down her documentary and what it means to be a woman filmmaker  

11/02/2026 | /Germany/Austria

Sata Cissokho • Head, World Cinema Fund and Toolbox Programme

“I see the World Cinema Fund as an ecosystem builder”

Sata Cissokho • Head, World Cinema Fund and Toolbox Programme

The new head shares the fund’s evolving priorities, and the role of the EFM Toolbox Programme in supporting underrepresented producers and connecting them...  

10/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | EFM

Joshua Loftin, Charley Fox, Bálint Révész • Director and producers of LFD Hope

“Men generally don't talk about how they are feeling — and does anyone really know anyway?”

Joshua Loftin, Charley Fox, Bálint Révész • Director and producers of LFD Hope

The producers and director, who won the Eurimages New Lab Outreach Award at this year’s IFFR, talk to Cineuropa about the future of their British-Hungarian...  

10/02/2026 | IFFR 2026 | IFFR Pro

Thérèse Ahlbeck, Marcus Olsson • Directors of The Swedish Connection

“When you want to convey something serious or grim through someone with funny bones, it can hit even harder”

Thérèse Ahlbeck, Marcus Olsson • Directors of The Swedish Connection

The directorial duo unpick their film about a Foreign Ministry bureaucrat in Stockholm, who paved the way for refugees to arrive in neutral Sweden during...  

09/02/2026 | Göteborg 2026

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