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 18/09/2025. 646 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

Myriam Arab  • Founder & Director of Villa134

“It is very important to understand that festivals and markets are tools for the film industry”

Myriam Arab • Founder & Director of Villa134

Myriam Arab talks about her experience running Cannes’ Marché du Film and International Village from 1997-2014  

24/02/2020 | Euro Film Fest

Christine Dollhofer  • Director of Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz

Crossing Europe Film Festival is a platform to show the variety of European cinema outside the box

Christine Dollhofer • Director of Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz

Christine Dollhofer tells how Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz builds its programme each year  

24/02/2020 | Euro Film Fest

Raphaël Brunschwig  • COO of Locarno Film Festival

“A film festival is a collective project, it’s part of an ecosystem based on many layers”

Raphaël Brunschwig • COO of Locarno Film Festival

Raphaël Brunschwig breaks down the particularities of the Locarno Film Festival, which is one of the longest-running film festivals and screens movies at...  

23/02/2020 | Euro Film Fest

Hrönn Marinósdóttir  • Director of Reykjavik International Film Festival

In Iceland we have this special regulation which allows the cinema owners to also be distributors

Hrönn Marinósdóttir • Director of Reykjavik International Film Festival

Hrönn Marinósdóttir tells us how she founded the Reykjavik International Film Festival in 2004  

23/02/2020 | Euro Film Fest

Emilie Boucheteil  • Director of Cinema Department Institut français

We work daily with the international sales agents because we buy film rights for public screenings so it’s non-commercial but it is still a deal

Emilie Boucheteil • Director of Cinema Department Institut français

Emilie Boucheteil describes the role of the cinema department at the Institut français  

23/02/2020 | Euro Film Fest

Teboho Edkins • Director of Days of Cannibalism

"I try to become a part of the community - that’s the only way I can tell the stories"

Teboho Edkins • Director of Days of Cannibalism

BERLINALE 2020: We met up with Teboho Edkins to discuss his documentary Days of Cannibalism, screening in Panorama, which delves deep into the...  

22/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Giedrė Burokaitė • Producer, Meno Avilys

“Documentary is a dangerous form of storytelling”

Giedrė Burokaitė • Producer, Meno Avilys

Interview with Giedrė Burokaitė, producer for Lithuanian company Meno Avilys and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

22/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

Louis Henderson • Director of Ouvertures

"This film is an hybrid production between art and cinema"

Louis Henderson • Director of Ouvertures

BERLINALE 2020: British filmmaker Louis Henderson, member of The Living and the Dead Ensemble, talks about their Forum-screened documentary Ouvertures,...  

22/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Forum

Véronique Encrenaz  • Head of MIFA

“There is a big audience for children animation films but concerning adult animation films, it is more difficult because audiences are not used to it yet”

Véronique Encrenaz • Head of MIFA

Véronique Encrenaz explains MIFA’s different markets and the important role that students play during the festival  

22/02/2020 | Euro Film Fest

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