Interviews

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

8168 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 08/05/2025. 660 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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"A film on the other side of one's ideals"
Fatih Akin • DirectorGerman-Turkish director Fatih Akin presented The Edge of Heaven in Cannes, where the film picked up the...  
24/09/2007
“As a producer, I protect myself as a director”
Fatih Akin  • DirectorCANNES 2017: We spoke to German director Fatih Akin about his new thriller, In the Fade  
26/05/2017
Interview
Fatih Akin  • DirectorVENICE 2014: Cineuropa met up with German film director, screenwriter and producer Fatih Akin, who has...  
02/09/2014
“I discovered I was only a good producer with my own films”
Fatih Akin • DirectorThe Turkish German filmmaker is part of the jury at the Marrakesh Film Festival and talks about her new...  
02/12/2013
At Cannes to change the world
Fatih Akin • Director23/05/2007
"They say this film is against women, but it's people who haven't seen the film saying that"
Fatih Akin • Director of The Golden GloveBERLIN 2019: Fatih Akin talks to us about his new film The Golden Glove, one of the most heinous and gory...  
20/02/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | Competition
Video - Venice Film Festival 2009, Venice Days
Interview with Fatih Akin, director of Soul Kitchen
Ones for the heart
Klaus Maeck & Fatih Akin • Producers10/03/2008
“When it takes some four years to make a film, it needs to mean something”
Levan Akin  • Director of And Then We DancedCANNES 2019: With And Then We Danced, Swedish-Georgian director Levan Akin takes on his Eastern European...  
18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight
"This film is my tribute to solidarity and my love letter to Istanbul"
Levan Akin  • Director of CrossingBERLINALE 2024: The Swedish filmmaker discusses his new film, which follows a Georgian teacher who travels...  
17/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama
"We mostly wanted to talk about the meeting of these two very different worlds"
Romane Gueret and Lise Akoka • Directors of The Worst OnesCANNES 2022: The filmmaking duo explain their intentions for their first feature film which homes in on...  
25/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard
"It’s a film that’s more immersive than narrative"
Banu Akseki • Director of Sans soleilWe met with the Belgian director to talk about her atmospheric coming-of-age movie, which she devised in...  
14/06/2022 | Belgium/Netherlands/France
“I think the new generation will accept this film; the radicals will be upset”
Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji • Director of Hanging GardensVENICE 2022: Inspired by De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, the Iraqi director takes a look at his “unbalanced”...  
14/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti Extra
“Dialogue is the most effective way to deal with extreme violence”
Mohamed Al-Daradji  • DirectorTORONTO 2017: We chatted to Iraqi filmmaker Mohamed Al-Daradji, who presented his third film, The Journey,...  
21/09/2017
EuroDoc 2011
Hazem Al Hamawi • Director and producer
"What it means to be a female performer in a conservative place like Saudi Arabia"
Haifaa Al-Mansour • DirectorVENICE 2018: Saudi Arabian director Haifaa Al-Mansour is taking part in the Miu Miu Women's Tales project...  
04/09/2018 | Venice 2018 | Giornate degli Autori

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