Interviews

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

9025 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 17/09/2026. 606 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Noémie Merlant • Director of The Balconettes

“It’s like the city is screaming and falling apart at the same time”

Noémie Merlant • Director of The Balconettes

CANNES 2024: The French actress-writer-director breaks down her sophomore directorial feature, about three...  

22/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Midnight Screenings

"Shattering the stereotypical image of the butch female cop in a leather jacket"

Frédéric Mermoud • Director

After several acclaimed shorts, Swiss-born, French-based director Frédéric Mermoud has made an impressive...  

14/10/2010

Mehmet Can Mertoglu • Director

"I neither hate nor sympathise with the characters"

Mehmet Can Mertoglu • Director

CANNES 2016: Young Turkish filmmaker Mehmet Can Mertoglu talks about his debut feature, Albüm, which was...  

13/05/2016

Lorenz Merz • Director of Soul of a Beast

“My movies don’t just function on an intellectual level”

Lorenz Merz • Director of Soul of a Beast

The young Swiss director talks to us about his second feature, which is competing in the Locarno Film...  

06/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Valentin Merz • Director of De noche los gatos son pardos

"I wanted the actors and their characters to have enough space to explore their own desires"

Valentin Merz • Director of De noche los gatos son pardos

With his debut feature, the Swiss filmmaker brings us into a mysterious world of desire, revolt and lightness  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Linnea Merzagora • Project manager, Green Film

“Our goal was to simplify the process by developing a common framework for producers across Europe, built by the industry, for the industry”

Linnea Merzagora • Project manager, Green Film

We explore the landscape of sustainable animation through the ANiMPACT initiative, which recently entered...  

17/07/2026 | /Europe

Rocío Mesa • Director of Tobacco Barns

“I’m rural and psychedelic”

Rocío Mesa • Director of Tobacco Barns

In her first fiction feature, the filmmaker recreates her childhood and adolescence in southern Spain,...  

22/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | New Directors

Simón Mesa Soto • Director

“I wanted to show the vulnerability of the teenagers in such harsh conditions”

Simón Mesa Soto • Director

CANNES 2014: Cineuropa met up with Simón Mesa Soto, who directed the short film Leidi, winner of the...  

30/05/2014

Simón Mesa Soto • Director of A Poet

“This film shows the worst version of myself in 20 years’ time”

Simón Mesa Soto • Director of A Poet

CANNES 2025: The Colombian director delves into the artistic vocation and its inherent misfortunes  

24/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Piero Messina • Director

"My film is built on the power of suggestion and memory"

Piero Messina • Director

VENICE 2015: The debut film of Italian director Piero Messina, The Wait, is in competition at the Venice...  

07/09/2015

Piero Messina • Director of Another End

“Together, Gael and Renate were like the wind coming in and blowing things around”

Piero Messina • Director of Another End

BERLINALE 2024: The Italian director chatted with us about some of the stages involved in producing his...  

19/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

GoCritic! Interview: Šimon Mészáros • Director of Quantum Jump

“It’s a part of the story of what is real and what is not”

GoCritic! Interview: Šimon Mészáros • Director of Quantum Jump

The Slovak director and animator shares his artistic ideas behind the film and its dialogue with...  

28/07/2026 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2026

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Mártą Mészáros • Director

Kythera disembarks on Dutch soil

Péter Mészáros • Director

29/01/2007

Ilian Metev • Director

“My decision to move in a more fictional direction was primarily a moral one”

Ilian Metev • Director

LOCARNO 2017: Bulgaria's Ilian Metev talks about a drastic move in his career: switching from documentary...  

14/08/2017 | Lecce 2018

Grand Prix SIC - Cannes 2010

Janus Metz, director of Armadillo

Interview with the director of the film awarded with the Grand Prize (SIC) in Cannes.  

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