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.

 
Edith Sepp • Head, Estonian Film Institute

"EFM is the kick-off of the cycle, and we can see the results in Cannes or in Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival"

Edith Sepp • Head, Estonian Film Institute

BERLINALE 2020: Edith Sepp, head of the Estonian Film Institute, met up with us to give us the lowdown on how the national institution works at the EFM  

02/03/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

Christopher Peter Marcich • Head, Croatian Audiovisual Centre

"Croatia has much more to offer as a shooting location"

Christopher Peter Marcich • Head, Croatian Audiovisual Centre

BERLINALE 2020: Christopher Peter Marcich, the head of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, has attended the EFM to promote the activities and possibilities of...  

02/03/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

Arben Zharku • Head, Kosovo Cinematography Center

"Audiences in Kosovo are growing and are more interested in local movies"

Arben Zharku • Head, Kosovo Cinematography Center

BERLINALE 2020: Arben Zharku, head of the Kosovo Cinematography Center, talked to us at the EFM about the current situation of the industry in Kosovo and...  

02/03/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

Agnieszka Holland  • Director of Charlatan

“Love can be stronger than any of our weaknesses”

Agnieszka Holland • Director of Charlatan

BERLINALE 2020: We met up with FAMU-educated Polish director Agnieszka Holland to discuss Charlatan, her film about a 1930s Czech healer  

29/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Special

Ilya Khrzhanovskiy  • Director of DAU. Natasha

“You cannot exploit people in this way, because it's not a voyeuristic Big Brother show”

Ilya Khrzhanovskiy • Director of DAU. Natasha

BERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, who co-directed the competition title DAU. Natasha with Jekaterina Oertel  

29/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Competition

Andrea Staka • Director of Mare

"A detailed study of middle-aged family women, and how their sexuality can fit in everyday’s life"

Andrea Staka • Director of Mare

BERLINALE 2020: Swiss filmmaker Andrea Staka discusses her latest film, Mare, presented in the Panorama section  

29/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Rithy Panh  • Director of Irradiated

“The truth has died because everything is going so fast; all that remains is lies”

Rithy Panh • Director of Irradiated

BERLINALE 2020: Cambodia’s Rithy Panh chatted with us to break down his Berlin competition film Irradiated  

29/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Competition

Giorgio Diritti  • Director of Hidden Away

“It was important to express the feelings from Ligabue's paintings through the colours and framing”

Giorgio Diritti • Director of Hidden Away

BERLINALE 2020: Cineuropa met up with Giorgio Diritti to discuss Hidden Away, his biopic on 20th-century Italian artist Antonio Ligabue  

29/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Competition

Carmen Losmann • Director of Oeconomia

"How is money generated? That's the main question in my film!"

Carmen Losmann • Director of Oeconomia

BERLINALE 2020: We sat down with German director Carmen Losmann, who has presented her documentary Oeconomia in the Forum section  

29/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Forum

Christian Petzold  • Director of Undine

“Undine exists only through men, and that is a horrible curse”

Christian Petzold • Director of Undine

BERLINALE 2020: We sat down with Christian Petzold, the director of Undine, shown in the competition of this year's Berlinale  

29/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Competition

Patric Chiha • Director of If It Were Love

"You never dance for the future or the past, you always dance to catch the present"

Patric Chiha • Director of If It Were Love

BERLINALE 2020: We sat down with Austrian director Patric Chiha to talk about his French-produced dance documentary If It Were Love, screened in Panorama  

28/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Johannes Naber • Director of Curveball

“We took the truth over the top and made it surreal; with the facts at hand, it wasn’t hard at all”

Johannes Naber • Director of Curveball

BERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Johannes Naber to get the low-down on Curveball, his adaptation of a true and twisted story that triggered the 2003 Iraq War  

28/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Special

Burhan Qurbani • Director of Berlin Alexanderplatz

"This was also a research into my personal history, since my parents fled from Afghanistan"

Burhan Qurbani • Director of Berlin Alexanderplatz

BERLINALE 2020: We sat down with German filmmaker Burhan Qurbani to get the lowdown on Berlin Alexanderplatz, his new effort, competing for the Golden Bear  

28/02/2020 | Berlin 2020 | Competition

Bastian Günther • Director of One of These Days

"Such kind of endurance contests reflect so well the system we live in"

Bastian Günther • Director of One of These Days

BERLINALE 2020: Germany's Bastian Günther talks to us about his Panorama-screened film One of These Days, which portrays the obsession with economic gain in...  

28/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Georgis Grigorakis • Director of Digger

“Like the protagonists, we embarked upon an external as well as an inner journey”

Georgis Grigorakis • Director of Digger

BERLINALE 2020: We talked to Georgis Grigorakis, the director of Digger, which premiered in the Panorama section  

28/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

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