Interviews

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

8683 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 21/02/2026. 632 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Mohammed Hammad • Director of Safe Exit

“The film explores the paradoxes in human relationships – people being together despite differences”

Mohammed Hammad • Director of Safe Exit

BERLINALE 2026: The Egyptian director breaks down how he intertwined a highly traumatic event with the social status of his character  

20/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

Frederike Migom • Director of Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays

“Being a kid isn’t so different from being an adult”

Frederike Migom • Director of Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays

BERLINALE 2026: The Belgian director discusses her latest film, in which temperatures and tensions run high  

20/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Generation

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun • Director of Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars

"When everything’s standardised, what matters are voices, music that’s different and dissonant"

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun • Director of Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars

BERLINALE 2026: The French-Chadian director discusses the genesis of his new film which interweaves legends and realism in the syncretic spirit typical of...  

19/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Mahnaz Mohammadi • Director of Roya

“The film's structure imitates unconsciousness: the images and sounds don’t always match up”

Mahnaz Mohammadi • Director of Roya

BERLINALE 2026: The Iranian helmer discusses her approach to depicting her main character, a teacher imprisoned in Tehran for her political beliefs  

19/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

Manon Coubia • Director of Forest High

“It all began with a place I felt compelled to tell the story of”

Manon Coubia • Director of Forest High

BERLINALE 2026: The Brussels-based filmmaker discusses her first fiction feature, shot across the seasons with a small crew in a mountain refuge  

19/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Perspectives

Anna Roller • Director of Allegro Pastell

“It always starts with female characters that make decisions which are initially hard to understand”

Anna Roller • Director of Allegro Pastell

BERLINALE 2026: The German director, who is also taking part in German Films’ Face to Face campaign, details the aesthetic vision and casting process...  

19/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

Grace Passô • Director of Our Secret

"When a living human body arrives in a living, physical space, the script becomes something to refer to, not to follow”

Grace Passô • Director of Our Secret

BERLINALE 2026: The Brazilian artist chatted with us about the surreal realism, family intimacy, and personal histories which shape her feature film  

19/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Perspectives

Teodora Ana Mihai • Director of Heysel 85

"The film is also strikingly contemporary in its themes, almost to a frightening degree"

Teodora Ana Mihai • Director of Heysel 85

BERLINALE 2026: The filmmaker examines the responsibilities and systemic failures behind the disaster portrayed in her historical film, crafted as a thriller  

19/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Berlinale Special

Carlo d’Ursi • Producer of Sad Girlz

“The main work is building continuity”

Carlo d’Ursi • Producer of Sad Girlz

BERLINALE 2026: The producer discusses his Generation entry and the transnational production identity of his company Potenza Producciones  

18/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Generation

Sebastian Brameshuber • Director of London

“Now that divisions have come to the forefront, it was important to make a film that emphasises what we have in common”

Sebastian Brameshuber • Director of London

BERLINALE 2026: It’s all about the journey in this tender portrait of human encounters along an Austrian highway  

18/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

Pepa Lubojacki  • Director of If Pigeons Turned to Gold

“I still don’t know if this film is the best or the worst idea of my life”

Pepa Lubojacki • Director of If Pigeons Turned to Gold

BERLINALE 2026: The cycle of addiction is broken in the Prague-based director’s documentary on the lives of four family members, primarily their alcoholic...  

18/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Forum

Geneviève Dulude-de Celles • Director of Nina Roza

“I was less interested in the initial hardship of migration than in the aftermath”

Geneviève Dulude-de Celles • Director of Nina Roza

BERLINALE 2026: The Montreal-based filmmaker reveals the challenges of setting up her sophomore feature film in Bulgaria without being Bulgarian  

18/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Ralitza Petrova • Director of Lust

“We’re constantly stimulated, yet deeply disconnected”

Ralitza Petrova • Director of Lust

BERLINALE 2026: The Bulgarian filmmaker touches upon the philosophical layers of her sophomore feature, opening up paths of interpretation beyond the...  

18/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Forum

Dominik Locher and Honeylyn Joy Alipio • Director and screenwriter of Enjoy Your Stay

“From Filipino cinema I learned the importance of an ensemble, in which everyone matters - my European background tends to follow one protagonist"

Dominik Locher and Honeylyn Joy Alipio • Director and screenwriter of Enjoy Your Stay

BERLINALE 2026: The Swiss director and the Filipino screenwriter talk about their research process and their inter-cultural collaboration  

18/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

Elle Sofe Sara • Director of Árru

"With the climate crisis and everything currently affecting societies around the world, Indigenous peoples also have a voice to be heard in finding solutions"

Elle Sofe Sara • Director of Árru

BERLINALE 2026: The filmmaker recounts the journey of her debut feature, an unprecedented fictional cinematic immersion at the heart of Sami culture  

17/02/2026 | Berlinale 2026 | Panorama

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