Interviews

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

8711 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 10/03/2026. 633 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Olive Nwosu • Director of Lady

“There’s a discovery of the sense of freedom that exists when you’ve broken all the rules”

Olive Nwosu • Director of Lady

BERLINALE 2026: The Nigerian director discussed the inspirations behind her debut, as well as the real life story that helped shape her heroine’s journey  

26/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026

Kilian Armando Friedrich • Director of I Understand Your Displeasure

“Cinema creates responsibility in the viewer”

Kilian Armando Friedrich • Director of I Understand Your Displeasure

BERLINALE 2026: The filmmaker explores Germany’s cleaning sector, highlighting its isolation due to systemic injustice in low-wage jobs  

25/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

Ruth Beckermann  • Director of Wax & Gold

"It is always interesting to explore how close I can get to the other"

Ruth Beckermann • Director of Wax & Gold

BERLINALE 2026: The director discusses her film, which weaves archival footage, contemporary encounters and the her own reflections into a layered...  

25/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Berlinale Special

Dara Van Dusen  • Director of A Prayer for the Dying

"There is a lot about faith and nature, forces in our existence we don’t fully understand"

Dara Van Dusen • Director of A Prayer for the Dying

BERLINALE 2026: The director discusses her debut, which merges biblical undertones and western elements while feeling uncannily contemporary  

25/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Perspectives

Gabe Klinger, Marina Person  • Director of and actress in Isabel

"If you ask yourself who your audience should be, the first answer should always be yourself"

Gabe Klinger, Marina Person • Director of and actress in Isabel

BERLINALE 2026: The director and actress discuss their film, which grows from small gestures – and is about trying, creating, failing, and starting again...  

25/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

Laurynas Bareiša • Director of Liberations

Liberations is about a family trying to escape an unseen threat, it’s essentially a survival film”

Laurynas Bareiša • Director of Liberations

BERLINALE 2026: The Lithuanian filmmaker chats with us about his upcoming film, which has just won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at the...  

24/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | EFM

Ian de la Rosa • Director of Iván & Hadoum

"Almería is closely connected with trans representation in the sense that it has little representation in cinema"

Ian de la Rosa • Director of Iván & Hadoum

BERLINALE 2026: The Spanish director reflects on the transformative power of love, exploring trans representation in contemporary cinema  

24/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

Marcelo Martinessi • Director of Narciso

“Cinema today has enormous potential to act as a bridge: to recount what happened and help us reflect so that it does not happen again”

Marcelo Martinessi • Director of Narciso

BERLINALE 2026: The Paraguayan director reflects on blending historical fact and fiction in his new film, exploring society and authoritarianism in Paraguay...  

24/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

Martika Ramirez Escobar • Director of Daughters of the Sea

“I would like to imagine a place where people can learn to co-exist: somewhat like being in water, contained but not bounded”

Martika Ramirez Escobar • Director of Daughters of the Sea

The helmer, who won the Eurimages New Lab Innovation Award at this year’s IFFR, talks to Cineuropa about the future of her Filipino-Spanish coming-of-age...  

24/02/2026 | IFFR 2026 | IFFR Pro

Lucas Englander • Actor

"We don’t need to believe that we need immense amounts of money to tell the most incredible stories that bring us together"

Lucas Englander • Actor

BERLINALE 2026: We sat down with the Austrian actor to talk about responsibility, politics and the wider role an actor can play beyond the screen  

23/02/2026 | European Shooting Stars 2026

Salif Cissé • Actor

"My acting method is being willing to adapt to any situation I’m in"

Salif Cissé • Actor

BERLINALE 2026: The French actor explains how he approaches each space with the same appetite for work  

23/02/2026 | European Shooting Stars 2026

Sofia Tjelta Sydness • Actress

"What I aim to do with my work is engage people, but also provoke them"

Sofia Tjelta Sydness • Actress

BERLINALE 2026: The Norwegian actress speaks about physical transformation and working on a star-heavy set  

23/02/2026 | European Shooting Stars 2026

Danielle Galligan • Actress

"I’m interested in generations of women and seeing how they age, change through life and take up space"

Danielle Galligan • Actress

BERLINALE 2026: The Irish actress talks about speed dating with casting agents and reveals the director she dreams of working with  

23/02/2026 | European Shooting Stars 2026

Eva Trobisch • Director of Home Stories

"I wanted to ask whether who we are and what our identity is can really be so narrow and definite"

Eva Trobisch • Director of Home Stories

BERLINALE 2026: We sat down with the German director to talk about identity, visibility, and the fragile construction of what we call home  

21/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Jérémy Comte • Director of Paradise

“I see the concept of ‘paradise’ as escapism, with each character striving to reach a place where they can forget their pain”

Jérémy Comte • Director of Paradise

BERLINALE 2026: We spoke to the Canadian director, whose feature debut follows two teens in Canada and Ghana confronting post-colonial tensions  

21/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

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