Interviews

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

8592 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 16/01/2026. 640 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Lin Sternal • Director of Perro

"The lives of indigenous people are constantly threatened by higher forces, controlled by power and greed"

Lin Sternal • Director of Perro

BERLINALE 2020: German director Lin Sternal talks to us about her documentary Perro, which revolves around a threatened indigenous community in Nicaragua...  

21/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

Jon Holmberg  • Director of Sune – Best Man

“My ambition was just to make a good film”

Jon Holmberg • Director of Sune – Best Man

BERLINALE 2020: Cineuropa talked to Jon Holmberg, the director behind the Sune franchise, just before he headed off to Berlin for the second time  

21/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

Martina Bleis  • Director, Berlinale Co-Production Market

“We always try to be on top of what producers and their projects need”

Martina Bleis • Director, Berlinale Co-Production Market

BERLINALE 2020: We spoke to the head of the Berlinale Co-Production Market, Martina Bleis, to find out what’s in store at this year’s edition of the...  

21/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

Jean-Baptiste Fribourg • Producer, La Société des Apaches

“Influence on social and political debates should not be the only purpose of documentaries”

Jean-Baptiste Fribourg • Producer, La Société des Apaches

Interview with Jean-Baptiste Fribourg, producer for French company La Société des Apaches and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

21/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

Polo Menárguez • Director of The Plan

"There are some very dangerous ways of understanding masculinity"

Polo Menárguez • Director of The Plan

With his feature debut, The Plan, which is released today in Spanish cinemas, Polo Menárguez has brought Ignasi Vidal’s successful stage play of the same...  

21/02/2020 | Spain

Roberto Cavallini • Producer, Altrove Films

“The most important thing though is to fall in love with a story and its universe”

Roberto Cavallini • Producer, Altrove Films

Interview with Roberto Cavallini, producer for Italian company Altrove Films and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

21/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

Anna Falguères and John Shank • Directors of Pompei

"We wanted to free ourselves from a modern-day form of realism so as to broaden the film’s scope"

Anna Falguères and John Shank • Directors of Pompei

BERLINALE 2020: We met with Anna Falguères and John Shank whose first feature film Pompéi is screening within the Generation 14plus line-up  

20/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

Zoé Wittock • Director of Jumbo

"The difficult thing was maintaining the right balance between reality and fantasy"

Zoé Wittock • Director of Jumbo

Young Belgian director Zoé Wittock talks about her first feature film Jumbo, a fairy tale-teen movie crossover, screened in the Berlinale’s Generation line-up  

20/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

Angelos Rallis • Producer, AR Productions

”The best documentaries are the ones that use strong creative language and form”

Angelos Rallis • Producer, AR Productions

Interview with Angelos Rallis, producer for Greek company AR Productions and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

20/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

Tomáš Krupa • Producer, Hailstone

“Emotions are the only thing we have”

Tomáš Krupa • Producer, Hailstone

Interview with Tomáš Krupa, producer for Slovakian company Hailstone and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

20/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

Alexis Juncosa • Artistic Director, Luxembourg City Film Festival

"We’d like to become a “metafestival” where you can see the best possible films being made"

Alexis Juncosa • Artistic Director, Luxembourg City Film Festival

We met with Alexis Juncosa who heads up programming for the Luxembourg City Film Festival, the 10th edition of which is unspooling between 5-15 March  

20/02/2020 | Luxembourg 2020

Sandra Wollner  • Director of The Trouble with Being Born

“I was interested in making an anti-Pinocchio”

Sandra Wollner • Director of The Trouble with Being Born

BERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Austrian director Sandra Wollner about The Trouble with Being Born, in which she finally puts the Pinocchio myth to rest  

20/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Encounters

Yulia Serdyukova • Producer, yutopia films

“The idea that documentary films can change the world is very dangerous”

Yulia Serdyukova • Producer, yutopia films

Interview with Yulia Serdyukova, producer for Ukrainian company yutopia films and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

20/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

Jeanette Nordahl  • Director of Wildland

“I was trying to create tension in a way that’s not obvious”

Jeanette Nordahl • Director of Wildland

BERLINALE 2020: We talked to Jeanette Nordahl, the debuting director behind the Panorama title Wildland  

19/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Grainne Humphreys and Si Edwards  • Director and shorts programmer, Dublin International Film Festival

“I see first-hand the gap between film students and world cinema”

Grainne Humphreys and Si Edwards • Director and shorts programmer, Dublin International Film Festival

We sat down with Grainne Humphreys and Si Edwards, VMDIFF’s director and shorts programmer, to talk about this year’s programme and industry initiatives  

18/02/2020 | Dublin 2020

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