Interviews

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

7457 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 19/03/2024. 584 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Matthias Glasner • Director of Dying

“I’m not very judgemental: I think human beings are allowed to be the way they are”

Matthias Glasner • Director of Dying

BERLINALE 2024: The German director enlightens us on how love, music and hope intertwine in his dark dramedy starring Lars Eidinger and Corinna Harfouch  

20/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Soleen Yusef • Director of Winners

“Children should be able to speak their own language and tell their own stories”

Soleen Yusef • Director of Winners

BERLINALE 2024: The German-Kurdish writer-director zooms in on the unifying power of football in her new children’s film  

20/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Generation

Dāvis Sīmanis • Director of Maria’s Silence

“We have to remember the catastrophes in history so that we don’t make the same mistakes again”

Dāvis Sīmanis • Director of Maria’s Silence

BERLINALE 2024: The Latvian director discusses his exploration of Soviet Russia and the fate of its Baltic citizens, particularly that of real-life actress...  

20/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Forum

Bruce LaBruce • Director of The Visitor

“My films allow people to see that there's nothing inherently evil or shameful about sex or porn”

Bruce LaBruce • Director of The Visitor

BERLINALE 2024: The Canadian director adapts Pasolini’s Theorem as a modern piece on immigration, the paranoia revolving around a white exodus, and...  

20/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Piero Messina • Director of Another End

“Together, Gael and Renate were like the wind coming in and blowing things around”

Piero Messina • Director of Another End

BERLINALE 2024: The Italian director chatted with us about some of the stages involved in producing his second work, which is a dystopic sentimental drama  

19/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Carmen Jaquier & Jan Gassmann • Directors of Paradises of Diane

"You have to accept the complexity of all these characters and their many different viewpoints"

Carmen Jaquier & Jan Gassmann • Directors of Paradises of Diane

BERLINALE 2024: The Swiss directors chatted with us about their first collaboration as a directorial duo and about the importance of showing walks of life...  

19/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Ruth Beckermann • Director of Favoriten

“We project a future onto these children that may not materialise, but that's what cinema is all about”

Ruth Beckermann • Director of Favoriten

BERLINALE 2024: The Austrian filmmaker showcases a difficult reality in her new documentary, in which she portrays a class of children in Vienna’s biggest...  

19/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Encounters

Aslı Özarslan • Director of Elbow

“There is this young generation looking for answers and reclaiming their power; I have hope for them”

Aslı Özarslan • Director of Elbow

BERLINALE 2024: A young runaway learns some harsh truths, and breaks free, in this film based on the novel by Fatma Aydemir  

18/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Generation

Anthony Schatteman • Director of Young Hearts

"It wasn’t so much a children’s film I wanted to make as a family film, like the ones I grew up with"

Anthony Schatteman • Director of Young Hearts

BERLINALE 2024: We met with the young Flemish filmmaker, who’s presenting his debut feature film, a sensitive coming-of-age tale about a boy who discovers love  

18/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Generation

Levan Akin  • Director of Crossing

"This film is my tribute to solidarity and my love letter to Istanbul"

Levan Akin • Director of Crossing

BERLINALE 2024: The Swedish filmmaker discusses his new film, which follows a Georgian teacher who travels to Istanbul to search for her trans niece  

17/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Nicolas Philibert • Director of Averroes & Rosa Parks

"These conversations go beyond the psychiatry setting, because we all share the same fears and anxieties"

Nicolas Philibert • Director of Averroes & Rosa Parks

BERLINALE 2024: The French documentary-maker tells us why and how he immersed himself in a psychiatric hospital, getting as close as possible to the...  

17/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Berlinale Special

Sasha Nathwani • Director of Last Swim

“We wanted to show the energy of the summer”

Sasha Nathwani • Director of Last Swim

BERLINALE 2024: The sun is high, but the shadows are growing longer in this film swinging between moments of laughter and bouts of melancholy  

16/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Generation

Mascha Halberstad • Director of Fox and Hare Save the Forest

“Children should be taken seriously”

Mascha Halberstad • Director of Fox and Hare Save the Forest

BERLINALE 2024: The Dutch director breaks down her new film, in which weird twists abound and Apocalypse Now references run wild  

16/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Generation

Farshad Hashemi • Director of Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others

“I can’t predict the future, but I know this is just the beginning”

Farshad Hashemi • Director of Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others

The winner of Göteborg’s Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award plays with fact and fiction in his debut film, which sees a woman opening up her home to a...  

14/02/2024 | Göteborg 2024

Carlos Muguiro • Director, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola

"Our work with institutions is regular, totally naturalised, from day one”

Carlos Muguiro • Director, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola

The director of the Basque film school explains its postgraduate programmes, as well as the selection process and its scholarship requirements  

13/02/2024 | /Spain

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