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 18/03/2024. 584 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Martina Bleis • Head, Berlinale Co-Production Market

“We always aim to adjust and refresh our focus by bringing in new perspectives to our selection teams”

Martina Bleis • Head, Berlinale Co-Production Market

The woman at the helm of the Berlinale Co-Production Market shares some insights into this year’s selection process and the current co-production landscape  

13/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | EFM

Dennis Ruh • Director, European Film Market

“We, as the EFM, want to bring together the entire industry”

Dennis Ruh • Director, European Film Market

The EFM’s head honcho delves into the impact of artificial intelligence and the new trends in the market  

13/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | EFM

Barbara Rupik • Director of Cherub

“I’m interested in eyewitness stories: the spirituality of the storytellers and their genuine belief in all the supernatural elements”

Barbara Rupik • Director of Cherub

The up-and-coming Polish animator delves into her Eurimages-awarded first feature, which focuses on an angelic being who roams our world  

12/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | IFFR Pro

Igor Mirković • Director of Sweet Simona

“We wanted to prove that people, their desires and their need for love remain the same, despite all these changes in technology”

Igor Mirković • Director of Sweet Simona

The Croatian filmmaker delves into the desires, the technology and the motivations behind his sophomore fiction feature, which deals with the world of...  

08/02/2024 | /Croatia

Marcelo Gomes • Director of Portrait of a Certain Orient

“I want to talk about the human being in context, not about the context itself”

Marcelo Gomes • Director of Portrait of a Certain Orient

The Brazilian director breaks down his story of a migration process that takes his characters from Lebanon to Brazil  

07/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Big Screen Competition

Carlo Chatrian • Artistic director, Berlinale

“Films become political not just through their content, but also through the way they present challenging content with a certain form”

Carlo Chatrian • Artistic director, Berlinale

The Berlinale’s outgoing artistic director discusses the evolution of the programming, balancing vision and reality, and the festival's commitment to diversity  

06/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024

Nazira Abzalova, Karin Wegsjö • Directors of If Everyone Just Leaves

“If society doesn’t trust you, how can you trust it back?”

Nazira Abzalova, Karin Wegsjö • Directors of If Everyone Just Leaves

In their film, which won Göteborg’s Angelo Award, the directorial duo shows what happens to communities if everyone does indeed just leave  

06/02/2024 | Göteborg 2024

Lilian Hess • Director of Duchampiana

“Immersive media offer a really interesting opportunity to involve the body in the story”

Lilian Hess • Director of Duchampiana

The German artist and filmmaker explains her immersive project inspired by a Marcel Duchamp masterpiece, now awarded by Eurimages  

05/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | IFFR Pro

Lisa Gertsch • Director of Electric Fields

“I wanted to weave all these stories into one big cosmos through subtle connections”

Lisa Gertsch • Director of Electric Fields

The Swiss director discusses her Max Ophüls Prize-winning feature debut, an episodic and poetic movie shot in black and white  

05/02/2024 | Max Ophüls Prize 2024

Sophia Bösch • Director of Milk Teeth

“When the imagined world becomes real, that is an absolutely magical moment for me”

Sophia Bösch • Director of Milk Teeth

The Swiss-Swedish director unpicks her intriguing coming-of-age drama that unfolds in a mystical forest setting  

05/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Big Screen Competition

Jenni Luhta, Lauri Luhta • Directors of Moses

“Freud is not the most empathetic person in the world, but you do develop some empathy for him later on”

Jenni Luhta, Lauri Luhta • Directors of Moses

We got the low-down on this experimental film helmed by the directorial duo, in which Sigmund Freud meets Moses  

05/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Damien Hauser • Director of After the Long Rains

“My movies are better when I don’t have a lot of control”

Damien Hauser • Director of After the Long Rains

The Swiss-Kenyan director unpicks his third feature, in which the characters have to be practical about their dreams  

02/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Harbour

Ishan Shukla • Director of Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

“I wanted to be able to talk about politics and spirituality in a very open way, without pointing guns at anyone”

Ishan Shukla • Director of Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

The Indian director breaks down his exuberant and dystopian animation, also giving an insight into his cultural influences  

31/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Bright Future

Ulaa Salim  • Director of Eternal

"We’re all seeking something bigger than our own lives or bigger than ourselves"

Ulaa Salim • Director of Eternal

Revealed with Sons of Denmark, the Danish filmmaker returns with a hybrid work completely out of the ordinary, a film of love, action, and science-fiction  

30/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Big Screen Competition

Emilija Gašić • Director of 78 Days

“I appreciate it when films are watchable – when I want to revisit them and they don’t break my heart too much”

Emilija Gašić • Director of 78 Days

The Serbian director takes a trip back to 1999, but the question is: what’s reality and what’s fiction?  

30/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Bright Future

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