Interviews

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

8495 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/10/2025. 653 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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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

Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

"You can almost smell nostalgia, but you cannot smell film — that's why the nature elements are the closest to how you experience nostalgia in real life"

Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

The filmmaker talked to us about her personal relationship to her script, casting decisions, and how she chose to portray nostalgia in her debut feature  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Mateo Ybarra • Director of Summer Camp

"I love observing conversations and people’s exchanges"

Mateo Ybarra • Director of Summer Camp

The director explains why he’s fascinated by groups and by the utopias which unfold within fleeting communities whose members all learn from one another  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Bright Future

José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

“A lot of it was about the everyday life of fascism and the small things, not the big picture”

José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

The Portuguese director spoke to us about relationships of power and how his new film has taken on fresh relevance today in light of unsettling political...  

07/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Enrique Buleo • Director of Still Life with Ghosts

“I’m interested in demystifying this absurd world we live in”

Enrique Buleo • Director of Still Life with Ghosts

The Spanish filmmaker makes his feature film debut with a collection of stories featuring beings from this world and others  

07/02/2025 | /Spain/Serbia

Alexandra Makarová • Director of Perla

“It might be difficult to have sympathy for Perla because people grow up with this mother figure that’s always caring and loving”

Alexandra Makarová • Director of Perla

The Austrian director unpicks her portrait of a woman and mother, detailing her inspiration and how her own background influenced the script  

06/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Eileen Byrne • Director of The Mariana Trench

“For me, making films means touching people”

Eileen Byrne • Director of The Mariana Trench

The Luxembourgish director discusses her first feature, based on Jasmin Schreiber’s best-selling novel, as well as its characters, its portrayal of grief...  

06/02/2025 | /Luxembourg/Italy/Austria

Noëlle Bastin, Baptiste Bogaert • Directors of Vitrival – The Most Beautiful Village in the World

"It was important for us to interfere as little as possible with our fiction in the way people really live"

Noëlle Bastin, Baptiste Bogaert • Directors of Vitrival – The Most Beautiful Village in the World

We talked to the filmmaking duo about their new film, its anchor in reality and their work with non-professional actors  

06/02/2025 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

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