Berlin International Film Festival | 9 - 20 February

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Interviews

Andrzeij Wajda

Andrzej Wajda

Incredibly ­ for a film that has been seen by over six million people in Poland and is screening here as a special tribute to its director, who received a special lifetime achievement award from the Berlinale the other night ­ Pan Tadeusz has no publicist.

Viet Helmer

Viet Helmer

The multi award-winning Tuvalu, one of the buzz films of the Berlinale, was 10 years in the making, but its director never had any doubt that it would be worth the effort.

Auli Mantila

Auli Mantila

The director of Forum entry Geography Of Fear doesn't like having her personal space invaded. But Nick Roddick treads carefully and emerges enlightened and unscathed...

Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella

Despite coming to the end of a long and arduous press tour, the director of The Talented Mr Ripley is still only too happy to talk, as Nick Roddick discovers.

Leonardo di Caprio

Leonardo di Caprio

"But the truth is, Titanic was a real departure from the movies that I was doing. It was the type of film that I really wanted to try at least once, you know. And I'm glad I did to this day: it was an unbelievable experience. But it certainly doesn't affect how I treat roles."

Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson

The director of Oscar-hopeful Magnolia and champion of 'New Hollywood' talks to Nick Roddick about three-hour movies, Burt Reynolds and Tom Cruise.

Gong Li

Gong Li

This year's Jury President talks to Nick Roddick about Breaking The Silence, the impact of the Asian economic crisis and the problem of script censorship in China.

David Green

David Green

Nick Roddick talks to David Gordon Green, the young director of buzz Forum title George Washington, and finds that he has plenty to say for himself at 24.

Daniel Graig

Daniel Graig

Craig, who is one of this year's Shooting Stars and who won the Best Actor Award in Edinburgh in 1998, plays Ronald Blanche, a chef who works in Hotel Splendide.

Sento Takenori
Sento Takenori

Head of the recently formed Suncent CinemaWorks and producer of some of the most distinctive Japanese films of the past couple of years. Sento San intends to make something of an impact on Berlin

Ulrich Felsberg Ulrich Felsberg

Wim Wenders' Road Movies partner and the executive producer of Million Dollar Hotel tells Nick Roddick about the film, the future and the face of cinema to come...

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