Interviews

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

8443 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 19/09/2025. 646 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

Danilo Caputo  • Director of Sow the Wind

“I kept my eyes peeled for directors who have experience in shooting nature in a very special way”

Danilo Caputo • Director of Sow the Wind

BERLINALE 2020: We caught up with Danilo Caputo, director of Sow the Wind, which premiered in the Panorama section  

28/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Levan Gelbakhiani • Actor

"I put my life in danger for accepting the role in And Then We Danced"

Levan Gelbakhiani • Actor

BERLINALE 2020: Georgian actor Levan Gelbakhiani, one of the 2020 Shooting Stars, talks to us about his work experience  

28/02/2020 | European Shooting Stars 2020

Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo  • Directors of Bad Tales

“We wanted to put the viewers in a position of uneasiness”

Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo • Directors of Bad Tales

BERLINALE 2020: We met up with Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo, back in Berlin with Bad Tales, the most unnerving fairy tale in the main competition  

28/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Competition

Ella Rumpf • Actress

"By playing a character, I look for what we are when we're totally naked"

Ella Rumpf • Actress

BERLINALE 2020: We have chatted to Ella Rumpf, the Swiss participant in the 2020 Shooting Stars, about her career  

28/02/2020 | European Shooting Stars 2020

Bartosz Bielenia • Actor

"When you scratch a bit under the surface of the Oscars you find something else…"

Bartosz Bielenia • Actor

BERLINALE 2020: Poland's Shooting Star Bartosz Bielenia talks to us about himself, his work and where his career might lead him to  

28/02/2020 | European Shooting Stars 2020

Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel  • Directors of Notes From the Underworld

“Black-and-white images have the advantage that the viewer is less distracted”

Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel • Directors of Notes From the Underworld

BERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, directors of the documentary Notes From the Underworld, which premiered in the Panorama section  

28/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

André Øvredal • Director of Mortal

"In addition to the legendary aspect of Mortal, there are also some spectacular elements"

André Øvredal • Director of Mortal

Norwegian director André Øvredal talked to us about his latest feature, Mortal, which is released today in cinemas in Norway  

28/02/2020 | Norway

Patricia D’Intino • Producer, Good Kids

”A producer needs persistence and patience”

Patricia D’Intino • Producer, Good Kids

Interview with Patricia D’Intino, producer for Hungarian company Good Kids and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

28/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

Patrick Sobelman and Hugo Sobelman  • Directors of Golda Maria

“This story is bigger than our family”

Patrick Sobelman and Hugo Sobelman • Directors of Golda Maria

BERLINALE 2020: We spoke to Patrick and Hugo Sobelman about their Golda Maria, which brings together three generations  

27/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Special

Adrian Cioflâncă  • Co-director of The Exit of the Trains

“The film’s long running time is a humble form of respect”

Adrian Cioflâncă • Co-director of The Exit of the Trains

BERLINALE 2020: The Exit of the Trains, a harrowing documentary essay about the killing of thousands of Jews in 1941, has screened in Forum, and we spoke to...  

27/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Forum

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