Interviews

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

8367 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 27/08/2025. 656 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Robin Coops • Director of One Charming Night

“Filmmaking is thinking through images; it doesn’t matter if you use a big camera, an iPhone or a virtual camera to create your work”

Robin Coops • Director of One Charming Night

The winner of the Eurimages New Lab: Innovation Award tells us more about his exploration of consent, privacy and intimacy in the digital sphere  

12/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | IFFR Pro

Mala Reinhardt • Director of Mother/Language

“The stories I want to tell seem to interest people, and this motivates me to continue making films”

Mala Reinhardt • Director of Mother/Language

After last year’s Familiar Places, the German helmer continues exploring questions of identity and origins from an intimate perspective in her upcoming feature  

12/02/2025 | /Germany

Tim Kuhn • Cinematographer on 22 Bahnen

“I'm always looking for something authentic – for realism in the world we create on film”

Tim Kuhn • Cinematographer on 22 Bahnen

The German DoP discusses the challenges of his current project, an adaptation of Caroline Wahl’s novel of the same name, helmed by director Mia Maariel Meyer  

12/02/2025 | /Germany

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

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