Interviews

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

8295 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 05/07/2025. 650 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Mario Martone • Director of Fuori

“Every human being can feel trapped and only our imagination can free us”

Mario Martone • Director of Fuori

CANNES 2025: The Italian filmmaker tells us about his dive, through fiction, into the universe of cult writer Goliarda Sapienza and 1980 Rome  

23/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Kirill Serebrennikov • Director of The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

"I wanted to get a grasp of the collective system called Mengele – the people who helped him, protected him, funded him, hid him"

Kirill Serebrennikov • Director of The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

CANNES 2025: The Russian director in exile elaborates on his motivation to dissect a Nazi mind on screen and reveals behind-the-scenes production details  

23/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Cannes Première

Thierry Klifa • Director of The Richest Woman in the World

“This is the story of a girl who discovers that her mother is capable of love, even though she has never loved her”

Thierry Klifa • Director of The Richest Woman in the World

CANNES 2025: The French filmmaker talks about the origins and the stakes of his new feature, which fictionalises the Liliane Bettencourt case  

23/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Out of competition

Mayca Sanz • Producer of Face of Grace

“This film raises questions like: would people react the same way if she were a man?”

Mayca Sanz • Producer of Face of Grace

CANNES 2025: The Spanish producer discusses the project she is introducing, a first feature directed by Anna Martí and Laura Santos, about a 63-year-old...  

23/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

Émilie Dubois • Producer of Bergies

“Being part of Focus COPRO’ gives your project real legitimacy”

Émilie Dubois • Producer of Bergies

CANNES 2025: The French producer discusses the project she is introducing, a South African-French co-production directed by Dian Weys, whose short film...  

23/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

Belén Funes • Director of The Exiles

“The bonds of intimacy suffer if we can't talk about pain”

Belén Funes • Director of The Exiles

The Spanish director talks to us about her award-winning second feature film, in which she draws on her family experiences to explore themes of grief,...  

23/05/2025 | /Spain/Chile

Tarik Saleh • Director of Eagles of the Republic

"Some people think my film is a satire, but it really isn’t, it’s an enormous system which no-one is putting a stop to"

Tarik Saleh • Director of Eagles of the Republic

CANNES 2025: The Swedish filmmaker of Egyptian origin unpicks his captivating film noir, which is the third chapter of his Cairo-based trilogy  

22/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Anna Cazenave Cambet • Director of Love Me Tender

"I wanted a character combining incredible softness and sensitive vulnerability with righteousness and strength"

Anna Cazenave Cambet • Director of Love Me Tender

CANNES 2025: The French filmmaker reflects on what drew her to adapt Constance Debré’s book and bring it to the big screen, with Vicky Krieps in the lead role  

22/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Mara Prohaska Marković, Marko Grba Singh • Festival director and artistic director, Beldocs

“This year’s selection reflects our commitment to cinema as a form of resistance, reflection and awakening”

Mara Prohaska Marković, Marko Grba Singh • Festival director and artistic director, Beldocs

We sat down to talk to the executives of the Serbian festival about the 2025 edition, happening amidst extraordinary global and local circumstances  

22/05/2025 | Beldocs 2025

Akinola Davies Jr • Director of My Father's Shadow

"We wanted to make something that services us, our community and masculinity in general"

Akinola Davies Jr • Director of My Father's Shadow

CANNES 2025: The British-Nigerian filmmaker discusses his first feature, a film that is set over the course of one day, in which he plays with the concept...  

22/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Stéphane Demoustier • Director of The Great Arch

“He’s a mystery, very well-suited for a piece of cinema, I immediately thought”

Stéphane Demoustier • Director of The Great Arch

CANNES 2025: The French director talks about creating a monument to the unknown Danish creator of Paris’ Great Arch of la Défense  

21/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Guillermo Galoe • Director of Sleepless City

“In La Cañada, I felt a profound wound in people”

Guillermo Galoe • Director of Sleepless City

CANNES 2025: The Spanish director gives us the low-down on his film, shot in a slum on the outskirts of Madrid, in which a teenager stares out at a broken world  

21/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Sten-Kristian Saluveer • Head, Cannes Next

"The point for us in Cannes is not to talk about innovation, but to make it something you can feel and touch"

Sten-Kristian Saluveer • Head, Cannes Next

CANNES 2025: The expert discusses the platform, which has become a seismograph for the cultural shifts triggered by artificial intelligence, immersive...  

20/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

Hubert Charuel and Claude Le Pape • Director and co-screenwriters of Meteors

"Here, there’s a realisation of what we see and what we don’t see"

Hubert Charuel and Claude Le Pape • Director and co-screenwriters of Meteors

CANNES 2025: The filmmaker and his writing partner explain the ins and outs of a lovely film about friendship set in a French region which is part of the...  

20/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Óliver Laxe • Director of Sirât

"The solution is always to trust in the power of images — and in how they affect human metabolism"

Óliver Laxe • Director of Sirât

CANNES 2025: The Spanish filmmaker explains why his film was born to build a rite of passage for himself, and also invite the viewers to look inside themselves  

20/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

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