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.

 
Tonya Noyabrova • Director of Do You Love Me?

“I wanted the audience to smell the smells and to hear the sounds of their own childhood”

Tonya Noyabrova • Director of Do You Love Me?

BERLINALE 2023: The director talks about the autobiographical elements in her atmospheric period film and the way it relates to modern-day Ukraine  

21/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Panorama

Fiona Tan • Director of Dearest Fiona

“I like pushing the boundaries of where cinema stops and art starts”

Fiona Tan • Director of Dearest Fiona

BERLINALE 2023: Creating for both the cinema and the art gallery is something that the visual artist and director clearly thinks is worth investigating  

21/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Forum

Bas Devos  • Director of Here

"I wanted to turn attention, a prerequisite in our relationships with others, into a visual theme in the film"

Bas Devos • Director of Here

BERLINALE 2023: We met with the Flemish filmmaker to chat about his movie, offering up a fleeting and ephemeral encounter which opens the way to new-found...  

21/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Encounters

Mario Martone • Director of Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

“Massimo and I are both restless children of our city”

Mario Martone • Director of Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

BERLINALE 2023: The director spoke to us about his documentary on Massimo Troisi, an homage to the great Neapolitan filmmaker’s work “from one director to...  

21/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Berlinale Special

Milad Alami • Director of Opponent

“Wrestling is a sport with a lot of stereotypical male ideas attached to it, which I wanted to shatter completely”

Milad Alami • Director of Opponent

BERLINALE 2023: We spoke to the Swedish-Iranian director about his drama revolving around freedom and the quest for a better future  

20/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Panorama

Zara Dwinger • Director of Kiddo

“Films should be allowed to be enjoyable”

Zara Dwinger • Director of Kiddo

BERLINALE 2023: Get ready for a new pair of outlaws – and a pet snake – in this Dutch road movie about a mother and daughter  

19/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Generation

Piotr Pawlus, Tomasz Wolski • Directors of In Ukraine

“We wanted to make sure this country was a protagonist”

Piotr Pawlus, Tomasz Wolski • Directors of In Ukraine

BERLINALE 2023: The Polish filmmakers discuss their documentary, which, instead of being intrusive, silently observes the daily struggles and joys in the...  

18/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Forum

Kristine Kujath Thorp  • Actress

"Art has a huge responsibility in showing the world and educate people trough emotions"

Kristine Kujath Thorp • Actress

BERLINALE 2023: The Norwegian actress discusses cinema as a tool to change the world and how that plays an important key in her profession  

18/02/2023 | European Shooting Stars 2023

İlker Çatak • Director of The Teachers’ Lounge

“Sometimes you do everything right, but it's still wrong”

İlker Çatak • Director of The Teachers’ Lounge

BERLINALE 2023: We talked to the German director about his school microcosm and how it is a reflection of broader society  

18/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023

Álvaro Gago  • Director of Matria

"We’re portraying a person, not a victim"

Álvaro Gago • Director of Matria

BERLINALE 2023: We talked to the Galician filmmaker about his debut feature, named after his previous short film that was a Sundance success, which portrays...  

18/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Panorama

Martina Bleis • Head, Berlinale Co-Production Market

“Cinema brings people together – not only for the sake of art and visual joy, but it also has a hugely important communal and social effect”

Martina Bleis • Head, Berlinale Co-Production Market

BERLINALE 2023: We had a chat to get the low-down on what’s in store for the 20th edition of the EFM’s flagship industry event  

18/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | EFM

Malene Choi • Director of The Quiet Migration

“This question of belonging is such a big part of being adopted”

Malene Choi • Director of The Quiet Migration

BERLINALE 2023: In her new film, which references her own experiences as an adopted child, the South Korean-born, Denmark-based filmmaker keeps things subtle  

18/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Panorama

Domien & Wendy Huyghe • Director and screenwriter of Sea Sparkle

"Writing this story was essential for us"

Domien & Wendy Huyghe • Director and screenwriter of Sea Sparkle

BERLINALE 2023: Brother and sister in real life, the director and screenwriter spoke to us about their film, which introduces younger audiences to the...  

17/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Generation

Alberto Gastesi  • Director of Stillness in the Storm

"I wanted to make a geometric film, with faces, light and shade"

Alberto Gastesi • Director of Stillness in the Storm

We spoke with the Basque filmmaker, who has made his debut with a nostalgic film, shot in black and white  

17/02/2023 | Ibiza 2023

Reza Memari • Director of The Last Whale Singer

“Animation is not a genre, but a medium with which you can tell any kind of story”

Reza Memari • Director of The Last Whale Singer

We spoke to the German-Iranian filmmaker about the potential of animation and his upcoming multi-format project  

17/02/2023 | /Germany/Czech Republic/Canada

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