Liv Ullmann: “We Need Art, Because It Tells Us Who We Are”

29 January, 2026

Meeting Liv Ullmann in Berlin, on the very morning she was due to receive the European Film Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, felt like an unexpected privilege. The roundtable interview, attended by journalists from across Europe, carried a particular emotional weight for me – not only because of my long-standing admiration for her, but because something essential in the history of cinema seemed, quite literally, to take shape before my eyes.

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Journalist and film critic. Curator for some film festivals in Romania. At "Films in Frame" publishes interviews with both young and established filmmakers.