Interviews

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

8303 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 08/07/2025. 653 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Valentine Cadic • Director of That Summer in Paris

“When you are alone, you are vulnerable, but you are open to the people around you”

Valentine Cadic • Director of That Summer in Paris

BERLINALE 2025: The French director delves into the intricacies of how she made her debut feature during the Paris Olympics  

16/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Perspectives

Léonor Serraille • Director of Ari

"We’re not looking at a person, we’re with them"

Léonor Serraille • Director of Ari

BERLINALE 2025: The French director unpicks her new movie, a magnetic and organic portrait born out of a very particular working approach with students from...  

16/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Rebecca Lenkiewicz • Director of Hot Milk

“The pain we go through sometimes creates an alchemy that can become release or self-realisation, but we don't know that at the time”

Rebecca Lenkiewicz • Director of Hot Milk

BERLINALE 2025: The British filmmaker discusses the importance of ambivalence, love and metaphors in her directorial debut  

16/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Bálint Dániel Sós • Director of Growing Down

"We felt that this is a kind of timeless tragedy"

Bálint Dániel Sós • Director of Growing Down

BERLINALE 2025: We talked to the Hungarian filmmaker about what inspired his debut feature, which tackles the moral and emotional dilemmas faced by parents  

15/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Perspectives

Elmar Imanov • Director of The Kiss of the Grasshopper

“It’s crucial for me to work with people I get along with”

Elmar Imanov • Director of The Kiss of the Grasshopper

BERLINALE 2025: The German-Azeri filmmaker reveals details about the intimate atmosphere in which he creates his cinema and elaborates on the shift to...  

15/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

Robin Petré • Director of Only on Earth

“I couldn’t have predicted the urgency of this film”

Robin Petré • Director of Only on Earth

BERLINALE 2025: With her new documentary feature, the Danish-Swedish director proves that beauty and destruction go hand in hand  

15/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Generation

Brendan Canty • Director of Christy

“It’s a film about a community”

Brendan Canty • Director of Christy

BERLINALE 2025: The Irish director unpicks his tender drama film about a teenage boy who has to exchange a suburban foster home for a much less comfortable...  

15/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Generation

Frelle Petersen • Director of Home Sweet Home

"That was probably the most life-affirming experience I've had in a job"

Frelle Petersen • Director of Home Sweet Home

BERLINALE 2025: We talked to the Danish filmmaker about the intense research that went into the making of his latest feature, which centres on a home care...  

14/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Panorama

Vasilis Kekatos • Director of Our Wildest Days

“It’s a sad world, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be beautiful”

Vasilis Kekatos • Director of Our Wildest Days

BERLINALE 2025: The Greek director breaks down his film, which he describes as both happy and sad, and which says a lot about his devasted home country  

13/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Generation

Martina Bleis • Head, Berlinale Co-Production Market

“Supporting underrepresented voices means ensuring these projects have both artistic and structural strength”

Martina Bleis • Head, Berlinale Co-Production Market

BERLINALE 2025: The head of the market offers some insights into this year’s diverse selection and the ever-evolving challenges of international co-productions  

13/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | EFM

Ibrahim “Snoopy” Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Rawia Alhag, Phil Cox • Directors of Khartoum

“Now, we hope that people will know how we dance, how we ride bikes, how we protest, how we fight, how we live and how we love”

Ibrahim “Snoopy” Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Rawia Alhag, Phil Cox • Directors of Khartoum

BERLINALE 2025: Four members of the directorial team break down their mixed techniques and how the circumstances on the ground transformed their work  

13/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Panorama

Robin Coops • Director of One Charming Night

“Filmmaking is thinking through images; it doesn’t matter if you use a big camera, an iPhone or a virtual camera to create your work”

Robin Coops • Director of One Charming Night

The winner of the Eurimages New Lab: Innovation Award tells us more about his exploration of consent, privacy and intimacy in the digital sphere  

12/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | IFFR Pro

Mala Reinhardt • Director of Mother/Language

“The stories I want to tell seem to interest people, and this motivates me to continue making films”

Mala Reinhardt • Director of Mother/Language

After last year’s Familiar Places, the German helmer continues exploring questions of identity and origins from an intimate perspective in her upcoming feature  

12/02/2025 | /Germany

Tim Kuhn • Cinematographer on 22 Bahnen

“I'm always looking for something authentic – for realism in the world we create on film”

Tim Kuhn • Cinematographer on 22 Bahnen

The German DoP discusses the challenges of his current project, an adaptation of Caroline Wahl’s novel of the same name, helmed by director Mia Maariel Meyer  

12/02/2025 | /Germany

Mariko Minoguchi • Director of Die andere Seite

“For me, cinema was always a place where I could learn to feel”

Mariko Minoguchi • Director of Die andere Seite

The German director tells us more about her upcoming film, starring Nina Hoss, and about her approach to storytelling in general  

12/02/2025 | /Germany

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