Interviews

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

9046 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/09/2026. 605 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

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

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