Interviews

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

8334 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 01/08/2025. 667 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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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

Mareike Engelhardt • Director of Rabia

“I took inspiration from several totalitarian systems to talk about our ability to turn into monsters”

Mareike Engelhardt • Director of Rabia

Cineuropa met with the filmmaker to talk about her debut feature, a nerve racking thriller about the indoctrination of a young girl by the Islamic State  

12/02/2025 | /France/Germany/Belgium

Olivier Barbier, Ola Byszuk and Lenny Porte • Sales agents, Lucky Number

"We have to provide distributors with strategies, give them the keys"

Olivier Barbier, Ola Byszuk and Lenny Porte • Sales agents, Lucky Number

We homed in on the current situation and aims of the new French international sales agent which is unveiling its first ever line-up in Berlin, boasting two...  

11/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | EFM

Ignasi Camós • Director general, ICAA

“One of our main focuses is to strengthen the presence of our films at international festivals and markets”

Ignasi Camós • Director general, ICAA

The director general of the Spanish institution shares insights into its activities and Spain's participation as the guest country at the European Film Market  

11/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | EFM

Christine von Fragstein • Co-initiator, Fair Play Film + Culture

"We have to educate and encourage people to speak up when injustice occurs"

Christine von Fragstein • Co-initiator, Fair Play Film + Culture

We talked to one of the founders of the new network of coaches aiming to make the German film industry a fairer workplace  

11/02/2025 | /Germany

Tricia Tuttle • Director, Berlin Film Festival

"It excites me to think about the way that we can continue to serve existing cinema-goers, but also bring new, particularly younger, people and turn them into cinephiles"

Tricia Tuttle • Director, Berlin Film Festival

BERLINALE 2025: The newly appointed artistic director talks about her approach to the German festival as well as its programme, its politics and its future  

11/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025

Tanja Meissner • Director, Berlinale Pro

“This role allows me to bring together all the passions and skills I’ve cultivated over the last 20-25 years”

Tanja Meissner • Director, Berlinale Pro

BERLINALE 2025: The new industry head discusses the events and opportunities awaiting professionals travelling to Berlin in the next few days  

11/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | EFM

Vincenzo Bugno • Head, World Cinema Fund

“Right now, our priority is to reaffirm our existence”

Vincenzo Bugno • Head, World Cinema Fund

BERLINALE 2025: We talked to the head of the World Cinema Fund about its work, its goals and the upcoming Berlinale  

11/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025

Lois Patiño • Director of Ariel

“My desire was to work in this double experience of reality and fiction, and explore the way they mix”

Lois Patiño • Director of Ariel

The Galician director reflects on his fourth feature, a meta-cinematic exploration of Shakespeare’s theatre threading together many of his previous...  

10/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

Wilhelm Sasnal • Director of The Assistant

“Robert Walser wrote about the uncertainty of tomorrow, about dependence on the employer – it’s very modern”

Wilhelm Sasnal • Director of The Assistant

One of Poland’s most successful artists has put a modern spin on a 1908 novel in a new film that he co-directed with Anka Sasnal  

10/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Pirjo Honkasalo • Director of Orenda

"My films have stories, but they are born when making the film – they are never the purpose of making the film"

Pirjo Honkasalo • Director of Orenda

The storied director talks about her approach to managing the sacred, solitude and silence in her newest feature, a pensive character-driven tale about two...  

10/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Albert Oehlen • Director of Bad Painter

“I can make fun of myself”

Albert Oehlen • Director of Bad Painter

The German painter talks us through his film, in which he takes a jab at the art world – and himself  

10/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

"You can almost smell nostalgia, but you cannot smell film — that's why the nature elements are the closest to how you experience nostalgia in real life"

Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

The filmmaker talked to us about her personal relationship to her script, casting decisions, and how she chose to portray nostalgia in her debut feature  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Mateo Ybarra • Director of Summer Camp

"I love observing conversations and people’s exchanges"

Mateo Ybarra • Director of Summer Camp

The director explains why he’s fascinated by groups and by the utopias which unfold within fleeting communities whose members all learn from one another  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Bright Future

José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

“A lot of it was about the everyday life of fascism and the small things, not the big picture”

José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

The Portuguese director spoke to us about relationships of power and how his new film has taken on fresh relevance today in light of unsettling political...  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

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