Interviews

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

6995 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 27/05/2023. 649 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Catherine Breillat • Director of Last Summer

"Political correctness means not thinking things through"

Catherine Breillat • Director of Last Summer

CANNES 2023: As intense as ever, the French filmmaker offers some food for thought about her new film, which explores the love between a stepmother and her...  

27/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Mona Achache • Director of Little Girl Blue

“Seeing this deeply personal journey projected up on the big screen felt soothing”

Mona Achache • Director of Little Girl Blue

CANNES 2023: Thanks to this film, some very private parts of the director’s family story are now exposed for the world to see  

27/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Special Screenings

Monia Chokri • Director of The Nature of Love

“I didn't think I had to make the ultimate movie about love”

Monia Chokri • Director of The Nature of Love

CANNES 2023: The Canadian helmer homes in on topics such as the process of making a film about love, becoming more confident as a filmmaker, and her...  

27/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Delphine Deloget • Director of All To Play For

"What happens when society comes to judge our intimacy?”

Delphine Deloget • Director of All To Play For

CANNES 2023: The French filmmaker recounts the genesis of her first feature film, which follows a mother who is suddenly deprived of her youngest child  

26/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Erwan Le Duc  • Director of No Love Lost

"Navigating between emotion and humour is to allow yourself to be enveloped, it’s something akin to enchantment"

Erwan Le Duc • Director of No Love Lost

CANNES 2023: The filmmaker spoke about his second film, which tackles "serious" and "grave" subjects by totally dedramatizing them  

26/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Zoljargal Purevdash  • Director of If Only I Could Hibernate

“All the pain is being caused by men, but with education, we can fight against that”

Zoljargal Purevdash • Director of If Only I Could Hibernate

CANNES 2023: The first feature by the Mongolian director focuses on the difficult living conditions in the yurt district of Ulaanbaatar  

26/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Anna Novion  • Director of Marguerite’s Theorem

“I didn’t want to fall into a cliché or a caricature of the autistic maths genius”

Anna Novion • Director of Marguerite’s Theorem

CANNES 2023: The director proves that the very special world of elite-level mathematics can be a laughing matter, and even a romantic comedy  

26/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Special Screenings

Elias Belkeddar  • Director of The King of Algiers

“The idea was to bring Kitano into the world of Italian neorealism”

Elias Belkeddar • Director of The King of Algiers

CANNES 2023: The Franco-Algerian director proves that he loves his melancholic psychopaths, in this case played by Reda Kateb and Benoît Magimel  

26/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Midnight Screenings

Vladimir Perišić  • Director of Lost Country

“I am trying to dissect and diagnose the violence in Serbian society”

Vladimir Perišić • Director of Lost Country

CANNES 2023: The Serbian director returns to the Croisette with a film that has a strong personal dimension for him and an uncanny echo in the present...  

26/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Baloji  • Director of Omen

“Everything you can find in a family is a reflection of society”

Baloji • Director of Omen

CANNES 2023: The Belgian-Congolese director takes us on a unique trip through the traditions and beliefs of the Democratic Republic of Congo  

26/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra  • Directors of Légua

"We worked on the film through the idea of cycle: the cycle of seasons, the cycle of life, the cycle of nature..."

Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra • Directors of Légua

CANNES 2023: The Portuguese directing duo discuss the concept, the making and the social background of their new film, centred on a woman working in a...  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors' Fortnight

Felipe Gálvez  • Director of The Settlers

"What happens when a country decides to erase a page of its history?"

Felipe Gálvez • Director of The Settlers

CANNES 2023: The Chilean director tells us more about his first feature, which lifts the veil on the genocide of native people at the beginning of the 20th...  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Valérie Donzelli  • Director of Just the Two of Us

"I thought it would be fascinating to explore how this woman who’s also an idealist could allow herself to be trapped"

Valérie Donzelli • Director of Just the Two of Us

CANNES 2023: The French filmmaker discusses her new film, which unpicks the dynamics of control through the story of a couple  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Cannes Première

Jessica Hausner  • Director of Club Zero

“Every young generation has to change the world”

Jessica Hausner • Director of Club Zero

CANNES 2023: The Austrian director returns to the competition with a bleak but very colourful film about a wellness guru and her teenage followers  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Rodrigo Moreno  • Director of The Delinquents

"I had a totally free spirit in making this film"

Rodrigo Moreno • Director of The Delinquents

CANNES 2023: The Argentinian director Rodrigo Moreno unpicks his new film, which follows two bank employees that question the routine life they carry out...  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

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