Interviews

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

8330 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 23/07/2025. 665 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Florent Coulon  • Producer, VraiVrai Films

"I like the spectator to discover a political issue in a very intimate way”

Florent Coulon • Producer, VraiVrai Films

The Emerging Producer coming from France discusses how he sees documentary cinema as an instrument of social and political change, as well as his upcoming...  

06/03/2023 | Emerging Producers 2023

Barbora Struss and Angelica Cantisani  • CEO, MIDPOINT Institute, and programmes coordinator, TorinoFilmLab

"This is the first activity of many to come where we want to create an accessible pool of writing talents"

Barbora Struss and Angelica Cantisani • CEO, MIDPOINT Institute, and programmes coordinator, TorinoFilmLab

BERLINALE 2023: The two experts discuss the "Only Writers in the Building" initiative, a unique showcase of ten promising European writers committed to...  

06/03/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | EFM

Tonislav Hristov  • Director of The Last Seagull

“My film portrays a man who is not treated well by women – something we don’t see often on screen”

Tonislav Hristov • Director of The Last Seagull

The Bulgarian helmer discloses some insights into a social phenomenon that emerged at the Bulgarian seaside in the latter decades of communism  

06/03/2023 | Thessaloniki Documentary 2023

Lars Kraume  • Director of Measures of Men

“Throughout history, cinema has made most of its money from the exploitation of violence”

Lars Kraume • Director of Measures of Men

BERLINALE 2023: The German director homes in on modern ethnological standards and why his fellow countrymen need to be reminded of their role in colonialism  

06/03/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Berlinale Special

Vitaly Mansky, Yevhen Titarenko  • Directors of Eastern Front

“We want people to watch this film and lose all illusions of what the war is”

Vitaly Mansky, Yevhen Titarenko • Directors of Eastern Front

BERLINALE 2023: We learn how the directors made their urgent documentary combining footage from the frontline with material filmed in Western Ukraine  

06/03/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Encounters

Nenad Cicin-Sain and Bill Carter  • Director and screenwriter of Kiss the Future

Life Is Beautiful became a theme and a creative inspiration for both of us – putting the best of humanity next to the worst of it”

Nenad Cicin-Sain and Bill Carter • Director and screenwriter of Kiss the Future

BERLINALE 2023: The creative duo discuss their documentary about people trying to survive in a besieged Sarajevo and the music that helped them do so  

03/03/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Berlinale Special

Hannes Hirsch and River Matzke  • Director and co-screenwriter of Drifter

"The film is a result of many queer stories, and themes I experienced and struggled with myself"

Hannes Hirsch and River Matzke • Director and co-screenwriter of Drifter

BERLINALE 2023: The director and the co-screenwriter of the German title discuss "gay loneliness" and personal experiences and how it all became a sensitive...  

02/03/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Panorama

Benedetta Porcaroli  • Actress

"I am very passionate, and when I decide to do a film, everything in my life has to do with it"

Benedetta Porcaroli • Actress

BERLINALE 2023: The Italian actress talks to us about her career in her home country and her wish to work abroad  

01/03/2023 | European Shooting Stars 2023

Anthony Lapia  • Director of After

"The world is a shitty place - let’s go to the basements and have fun, love and do whatever we want"

Anthony Lapia • Director of After

BERLINALE 2023: The French director talks about the script, the ensemble and, of course, the music in his first feature, set in an afterparty in a club in Paris  

01/03/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Panorama

Viera Čákanyová  • Director of Notes from Eremocene

“My film is conceived as a future analogue fossil, a time capsule preserving the remembrance of mankind”

Viera Čákanyová • Director of Notes from Eremocene

BERLINALE 2023: Cineuropa caught up with the filmmaker to talk crypto-anarchism, exploring a different formalistic direction in documentary filmmaking, and...  

01/03/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Forum

Mehran Tamadon  • Director of Where God Is Not and My Worst Enemy

Where God Is Not is like a wide shot, and My Worst Enemy is like a close-up”

Mehran Tamadon • Director of Where God Is Not and My Worst Enemy

BERLINALE 2023: The Iranian director dissects his approach and discusses delicate ethical questions posed by his two films, screened in different sections...  

01/03/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Forum/Encounters

Fabrice du Welz  • Director of Calvaire

“One film chases the other and I always prefer to focus on the next one"

Fabrice du Welz • Director of Calvaire

We met the Belgian filmmaker on the occasion of the surprising re-release of his 2004 film in US cinemas  

28/02/2023 | /Belgium/Luxembourg/France

Kayije Kagame  • Actress

"I always pick the projects I work on very carefully"

Kayije Kagame • Actress

BERLINALE 2023: The Swiss actress, who beautifully played one of the main roles in Alice Diop's Saint-Omer, discusses her acting choices and the people she...  

28/02/2023 | European Shooting Stars 2023

Jean-Paul Salomé  • Director of The Sitting Duck

"Clearly, the subject-matter upsets people"

Jean-Paul Salomé • Director of The Sitting Duck

The filmmaker sheds light on his political and psychological thriller telling the true and edifying story of a whistleblower walking the corridors of power...  

28/02/2023 | /France/Germany

Yannick Jozefzoon  • Actor

"The most important thing in acting is to be focused and chilled at same time"

Yannick Jozefzoon • Actor

BERLINALE 2023: The Dutch actor discusses past, present and future of his career, as well as the biggest challenges he has had to face so far  

28/02/2023 | European Shooting Stars 2023

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