Interviews

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

8476 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 09/10/2025. 656 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

Thorvaldur Kristjánsson  • Actor

"Playing a role means looking for something tangible"

Thorvaldur Kristjánsson • Actor

BERLINALE 2023: The Icelandic actor talks about his approach to acting and how European cinema is a landscape for growing possibilities  

28/02/2023 | European Shooting Stars 2023

Martín Benchimol  • Director of The Castle

“I need each scene to have its meaning”

Martín Benchimol • Director of The Castle

BERLINALE 2023: We spoke to the director about his protagonists as well as the location he used and the special aura it possesses  

28/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Panorama

Judith State  • Actress

"I’m constantly taking myself out of my comfortable area and trying new things"

Judith State • Actress

BERLINALE 2023: The Romanian actress, who has worked with masters from her country such as Cristi Puiu and Cristian Mungiu, talks about her career  

27/02/2023 | European Shooting Stars 2023

Andrea Di Stefano  • Director of The Last Night of Amore

“It was important that we talk about these relationships; these couples who have to survive on a wage of 1,400 euros a month”

Andrea Di Stefano • Director of The Last Night of Amore

BERLINALE 2023: The Italian actor-director spoke to us about his third directorial effort revolving around an honest police officer’s descent into hell  

27/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Berlinale Special

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