Interviews

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

8302 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 08/07/2025. 653 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Bettina Böhler • Director of Schlingensief – A Voice that Shook the Silence

"If we were a little bit more courageous we could change something"

Bettina Böhler • Director of Schlingensief – A Voice that Shook the Silence

BERLINALE 2020: German director Bettina Böhler talks about her documentary about artist Christoph Schlingensief, Schlingensief – A Voice that Shook the...  

26/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Sébastien Lifshitz  • Director of Little Girl

“Sasha is a modern-day heroine”

Sébastien Lifshitz • Director of Little Girl

BERLINALE 2020: We talked to Sébastien Lifshitz, the director of the documentary Little Girl, which has premiered in the Panorama section  

26/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Paloma Sermon Daï • Director of Petit Samedi

"A story about filial and maternal love, a film about what it is to be a mother, what it is to be a son"

Paloma Sermon Daï • Director of Petit Samedi

BERLINALE 2020: We met with Belgian director Paloma Sermon Daï who is presenting her first feature film, the documentary Petit Samedi, at the Berlinale Forum  

26/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Forum

Irene M. Borrego • Producer, 59 en Conserva

“We are surrounded by thousands of potentially fascinating films”

Irene M. Borrego • Producer, 59 en Conserva

Interview with Irene M. Borrego, producer for Spanish company 59 en Conserva and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

26/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere and Sofie Benoot • Directors of Victoria

"The film shows the optimistic power of a character whose situation is rather desperate"

Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere and Sofie Benoot • Directors of Victoria

BERLINALE 2020: We have met up with Belgium's Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere and Sofie Benoot, who have presented their documentary Victoria in...  

25/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Forum

Ivan Ostrochovský  • Director of Servants

“I want the audience to understand how easy it is to end up on the wrong side of history”

Ivan Ostrochovský • Director of Servants

BERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Slovak documentary filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský, who has premiered Servants, his sophomore fiction feature after the...  

25/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Encounters

Hannah Reinikainen, Lia Hietala • Directors of Always Amber

"We wanted to make a film about young people with the queer perspective"

Hannah Reinikainen, Lia Hietala • Directors of Always Amber

BERLINALE 2020: Swedish directors Hannah Reinikainen and Lia Hietala discuss their Panorama-screened documentary Always Amber which explores the world of...  

25/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck • Head of Berlinale Shorts

“I don’t have to create much of a buzz because the films themselves already do it and the audience trusts us”

Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck • Head of Berlinale Shorts

BERLINALE 2020: As Berlinale Shorts gets into full swing, Cineuropa talks to Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck about her first year as head of the section and the...  

25/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Shorts

Cristi Puiu • Director of Malmkrog

"I believe that historical memory is a subjective and an emotional matter"

Cristi Puiu • Director of Malmkrog

BERLINALE 2020: The kickstarter of the Romanian New Wave, Cristi Puiu, is world-premiering his most cerebral film, Malmkrog, in the Encounters section, and...  

25/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Encounters

Łukasz Długołęcki • Producer, NUR

“Big platforms like Netflix or Amazon are actually making people watch more films in cinemas”

Łukasz Długołęcki • Producer, NUR

Interview with Łukasz Długołęcki, producer for Polish company NUR and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

25/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

Michael Harbauer  • Director of Schlingel International Film Festival for Children and young audience

We also put into place an exchange and connecting tool which allow us to go abroad with German children films

Michael Harbauer • Director of Schlingel International Film Festival for Children and young audience

Michael Harbauer talks about the particular challenges inherent in organising a film festival dedicated to children  

25/02/2020 | Euro Film Fest

Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler  • Directors of Monty and the Street Party

“This time around, we wanted to do something… Well, almost edifying”

Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler • Directors of Monty and the Street Party

BERLINALE 2020: We sat down with Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler to talk about Monty and the Street Party and their dramatic change in direction  

24/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

Tekla Machavariani • Producer, Nushi Film

“The most important for a producer is to not lose the sense of empathy”

Tekla Machavariani • Producer, Nushi Film

Interview with Tekla Machavariani, producer for Georgian company Nushi Film and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

24/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

Viera Čakányová  • Director of FREM

“I deliberately reduced any human element in the ‘narrative’ to the bare minimum”

Viera Čakányová • Director of FREM

BERLINALE 2020: Slovakian filmmaker Viera Čakányová talks about the constraints of anthropomorphic thinking while she was preparing her experimental sci-fi...  

24/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Forum

Javier Fernández Vázquez • Director of A Storm Was Coming

“For me, film direction is a political thing”

Javier Fernández Vázquez • Director of A Storm Was Coming

BERLINALE 2020: With his first feature-length documentary directed solo A Storm Was Coming, Javier Fernández Vázquez questions the official version of...  

24/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Forum

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