Interviews

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

8494 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 24/10/2025. 652 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Kārlis Arnolds Avots  • Actor

"When I discovered theatre and film, I found a source that could fill the gap inside my soul"

Kārlis Arnolds Avots • Actor

BERLINALE 2025: The young actor discusses past and present challenges in his career, dream projects and even the social responsibility of his profession  

22/02/2025 | European Shooting Stars 2025

Johanna Moder  • Director of Mother's Baby

"My character is going through loneliness, emptiness and the disappointment of motherhood"

Johanna Moder • Director of Mother's Baby

BERLINALE 2025: The Austrian director details the making of her film about a mother struggling to accept her son as her own, conveying the suspense of the...  

22/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Jeanette Nordahl • Director of Beginnings

"I wanted to look at old love — boring and tired love"

Jeanette Nordahl • Director of Beginnings

BERLINALE 2025: The Danish director talks about her sophomore feature, a sensitive film about a middle-aged couple in the process of separating and telling...  

22/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Panorama

Maarja Johanna Mägi  • Actress

"Being free between projects is both scary and exciting — anything can happen"

Maarja Johanna Mägi • Actress

BERLINALE 2025: The emerging actress, well-known to Estonian audiences given her accessible work on local television, discusses the challenges of the profession  

22/02/2025 | European Shooting Stars 2025

Lidija Kordić  • Actress

"I really want to play a transgender or male role"

Lidija Kordić • Actress

BERLINALE 2025: The Montenegrin rising star talks about her approach to acting after having worked in films such as Working Class Goes to Hell and Diva...  

22/02/2025 | European Shooting Stars 2025

Frida Gustavsson  • Actress

"When you have a shoot for so long and you’re in every scene, your work has to be extremely precise"

Frida Gustavsson • Actress

BERLINALE 2025: The Swedish actress discusses her career and her complex turn in drama series Faithless, which is based on an original script by Ingmar Bergman  

22/02/2025 | European Shooting Stars 2025

Martina Priessner • Director of The Moelln Letters

“Working with these historical documents felt so special”

Martina Priessner • Director of The Moelln Letters

BERLINALE 2025: The German documentarian spoke about her work, which revisits many painful memories from German history and the tragic events of 1992  

22/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Panorama

Julia Lemke, Anna Koch • Directors of Circusboy

“When it was finished, we talked about its essence. What is it for us? We said: ‘It’s about connectedness’”

Julia Lemke, Anna Koch • Directors of Circusboy

BERLINALE 2025: The show must go on in the directorial duo’s documentary, but what happens behind the scenes is even more important  

21/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Generation

Devrim Lingnau  • Actress

"Hysteria is unique in how it portrays different migrant and post-migrant communities in Germany"

Devrim Lingnau • Actress

BERLINALE 2025: The young German actress explores the challenges she had to face and her work in Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s psychological thriller  

20/02/2025 | European Shooting Stars 2025

Elín Hall  • Actress

"The most challenging part was staying in this very fragile emotional state for weeks"

Elín Hall • Actress

BERLINALE 2025: The Icelandic rising star discusses straddling the line between music, with two albums already to her name, and film, having worked with...  

20/02/2025 | European Shooting Stars 2025

Besir Zeciri  • Actor

"I always start by asking many questions to my character"

Besir Zeciri • Actor

BERLINALE 2025: The emerging Danish actor delves into his approach to acting, as well as his work in The Girl with the Needle  

20/02/2025 | European Shooting Stars 2025

Ina Weisse • Director of Cicadas

"We all have two sides; women, and men, can be soft and they can be strong"

Ina Weisse • Director of Cicadas

BERLINALE 2025: We talked to the German director about the origins of her latest feature, which reunites her with Nina Hoss and on which she also worked...  

20/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Panorama

Marcin Wierzchowski • Director of Das Deutsche Volk

“The whole story of humankind is a story of migration”

Marcin Wierzchowski • Director of Das Deutsche Volk

BERLINALE 2025: The Polish-born, German-raised director explains his take on structural racism as he breaks down his documentary about a hate crime in Hanau  

20/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Berlinale Special

Lionel Baier • Director of The Safe House

“I was able to talk about the Holocaust without having to make a historical film”

Lionel Baier • Director of The Safe House

BERLINALE 2025: The Swiss director unpicks his understanding of fiction and his artistic approach to the literary source of his feature, an autobiographical...  

20/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Petra Volpe • Director of Late Shift

"The film is a declaration of love for the nursing profession"

Petra Volpe • Director of Late Shift

BERLINALE 2025: We talked to the Swiss-Italian filmmaker about the inspiration and intention behind her latest feature, as well as her research and writing...  

19/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Berlinale Special

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