Interviews

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

7498 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 03/05/2024. 579 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Philippe Lesage • Director of Who by Fire

“I go where it hurts”

Philippe Lesage • Director of Who by Fire

BERLINALE 2024: The Canadian director explains how he took pleasure in misleading the viewer in his new film, where adults just can’t stop pretending  

22/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Generation

Andreas Dresen • Director of From Hilde, with Love

"I wanted to show resistance fighters in their ordinary lives, so that you can relate to them on the same level"

Andreas Dresen • Director of From Hilde, with Love

BERLINALE 2024: The German director discusses his newest, which follows a young woman who finds her place in the “Red Orchestra” resistance group and starts...  

22/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Eva Trobisch, Adrian Campean • Director and cinematographer of Ivo

“This documentary-like approach resulted from the connection between inside and outside”

Eva Trobisch, Adrian Campean • Director and cinematographer of Ivo

BERLINALE 2024: The filmmakers give us the low-down on their intimate and empathic social drama about a devoted caregiver  

22/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Encounters

Myriam El Hajj • Director of Diaries from Lebanon

“I was inside the events and living through them with my characters”

Myriam El Hajj • Director of Diaries from Lebanon

BERLINALE 2024: The director breaks down her portrait of the hardships that Lebanese society has gone through over the last few years  

22/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Katarina Stark  • Actress

"I like to work in different genres"

Katarina Stark • Actress

BERLINALE 2024: The German actress discusses her emerging career, the challenges she's already faced and the work she would like to do  

22/02/2024 | European Shooting Stars 2024

Costanza Quatriglio • Director of The Secret Drawer

“I cannot distinguish life from film; they are communicating vessels”

Costanza Quatriglio • Director of The Secret Drawer

BERLINALE 2024: The Italian helmer unpicks her personal and intense documentary inspired by her father  

22/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Forum

Andrei Cohn • Director of Holy Week

“My main character is pushed into a place where he becomes unable to distinguish between real and imaginary threats”

Andrei Cohn • Director of Holy Week

BERLINALE 2024: The director’s third picture, a loose adaptation of a novella by Ion Luca Caragiale, explores antisemitism in a Romanian village circa 1900  

22/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Forum

Anja Salomonowitz • Director of Sleeping with a Tiger

“A biography is always just an interpretation; my film doesn't claim to hold any truth”

Anja Salomonowitz • Director of Sleeping with a Tiger

BERLINALE 2024: The director’s unorthodox biopic of Maria Lassnig highlights her mesmerising pictures but also her empowering accomplishments  

22/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Forum

Michael Fetter Nathansky • Director of Every You Every Me

“My film is a love story, but it’s not about finding ‘the one’”

Michael Fetter Nathansky • Director of Every You Every Me

BERLINALE 2024: A person you love can have many different faces, as the German director proves in his new outing  

21/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Bruno Dumont • Director of The Empire

"It’s not by telling others how to behave that you educate them, people need to be enlightened"

Bruno Dumont • Director of The Empire

BERLINALE 2024: The French filmmaker revisits the sci-fi genre in his own unique style, exploring the inevitable porosity of Good and Evil  

20/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Lola Arias • Director of Reas

"It is a community that works in a utopian manner without being 'controlled' by patriarchy”

Lola Arias • Director of Reas

BERLINALE 2024: The Argentinian director talks about her fearless film that uses the musical genre to tell stories of violence and oppression, but also of...  

20/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Forum

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

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