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 10/10/2025. 656 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
João Canijo • Director of Bad Living and Living Bad

"Mothers can make the life of their daughters a misery"

João Canijo • Director of Bad Living and Living Bad

BERLINALE 2023: We talked to the Portuguese director about hotels that can feel like prisons and the unbearable weight of family  

23/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition/Encounters

Christian Petzold • Director of Afire

“Most of the time sex scenes don't bring anything of value to the story"

Christian Petzold • Director of Afire

BERLINALE 2023: We talked to the director about his portrait of an unsecure artist and his journey to become a real author  

23/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Robert Schwentke • Director of Seneca - On the Creation of Earthquakes

"The film asks: is the educated elite a victim of tyranny or an opportunistic collaborator?"

Robert Schwentke • Director of Seneca - On the Creation of Earthquakes

BERLINALE 2023: We talked to the director about his fascination for the ambiguous figure of Roman times philosopher Seneca  

23/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Berlinale Special

Estíbaliz Urresola • Director of 20,000 Species of Bees

"Making people feel ashamed is a way of restricting their desires and actions"

Estíbaliz Urresola • Director of 20,000 Species of Bees

BERLINALE 2023: The Basque filmmaker debuts with a poignant story about families that work as social beehives and where it is difficult to accept difference  

23/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Ayşe Polat • Director of In The Blind Spot

“This cruel history, that has not been processed, has given rise to ghosts over the generations”

Ayşe Polat • Director of In The Blind Spot

BERLINALE 2023: We chatted with the Kurdish-German director about dealing with generational trauma and its omittance from daily life  

23/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Encounters

Lila Avilés • Director of Tótem

“To think about death is to think about life”

Lila Avilés • Director of Tótem

BERLINALE 2023: The Mexican director finds beauty in last goodbyes  

23/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Emily Atef • Director of Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything

“Cinema has to be as sensual as possible”

Emily Atef • Director of Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything

BERLINALE 2023: We spoke to the German-French director about her adaptation of Daniela Krien’s historical novel and coming-of-age story  

23/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Margarethe von Trotta • Director of Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert

“I can’t stand constant sunny dispositions”

Margarethe von Trotta • Director of Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert

BERLINALE 2023: The seasoned director tells us about her fascination with treading the fine line between Ingeborg Bachmann’s gloomy persona and her more...  

22/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

Lois Patiño • Director of Samsara

"I wanted to make a film to enjoy with your eyes closed"

Lois Patiño • Director of Samsara

BERLINALE 2023: The filmmaker talks about his third feature, a journey not only geographically, but also spiritually and sensorially on his path of constant...  

21/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Encounters

Paul B Preciado • Director of Orlando, My Political Biography

“It's complicated when you start devising the visual language to represent, for instance, trans bodies and non-binary bodies”

Paul B Preciado • Director of Orlando, My Political Biography

BERLINALE 2023: We spoke to the philosopher, author and now filmmaker about his already-acclaimed, free adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 trans text  

21/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Encounters

Léa Fehner • Director of Midwives

“The camera dances and follows this collective body which makes everything work"

Léa Fehner • Director of Midwives

BERLINALE 2023: We talked to the French director about her highly intimate and distressing portrayal of the midwifery profession  

21/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Panorama

Giacomo Abbruzzese • Director of Disco Boy

“I wanted to make a war film where both perspectives, both sides were fully explored”

Giacomo Abbruzzese • Director of Disco Boy

BERLINALE 2023: We met with the Italian director to discuss his debut fiction feature film toplined by Franz Rogowski  

21/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Competition

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

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