Interviews

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

8246 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/05/2025. 671 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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"Cinema is a crazy business"

Rachid Bouchareb • Director

Meeting with a committed and humanist director, who has unveiled with much talent an ignored period of...  

20/09/2006

"Opening a chapter of history"

Rachid Bouchareb • Director

Rachid Bouchareb • Indigènes Best Actor in Cannes  

25/05/2006

Yohan Bouché  • CEO, Onirix

"We have to create a virtual cycle between venues, studios and viewers"

Yohan Bouché • CEO, Onirix

CANNES 2019: At the Marché du Film, Onirix CEO Yohan Bouché talks about advancing mass adoption of...  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Marché du Film

Emilie Boucheteil • Director of Audience and Engagement, Art Explora

"Everything we organise is for and with audiences, and here we’re preparing content of tomorrow to which we want to give audiences access"

Emilie Boucheteil • Director of Audience and Engagement, Art Explora

CANNES 2025: With a career spanning cinema and cultural networks, the expert has been instrumental in...  

27/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

Emilie Boucheteil  • Director of Cinema Department Institut français

We work daily with the international sales agents because we buy film rights for public screenings so it’s non-commercial but it is still a deal

Emilie Boucheteil • Director of Cinema Department Institut français

Emilie Boucheteil describes the role of the cinema department at the Institut français  

23/02/2020 | Euro Film Fest

"Doing everything ourselves, taking risks and persuading"

Peter Bouckaert • Producer

MMG Film & TV Production look back at the financing phase and launch strategy for Ben X  

19/03/2008

"Doing everything ourselves, taking risks and persuading"

Peter Bouckaert • Producer

21/09/2007

Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma • Directors of Year of the Shark

"As soon as we started writing films, we realised that everything took us back to the places of our childhood"

Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma • Directors of Year of the Shark

The French directors took us behind the scenes of their third feature film and shared their passion for...  

12/07/2022 | NIFFF 2022

Antoinette Boulat  • Director of My Night

“I never thought of casting as an endgame”

Antoinette Boulat • Director of My Night

VENICE 2021: The French casting director tells us about fulfilling a lifelong dream by calling the shots...  

16/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti Extra

Fyzal Boulifa • Director of Lynn + Lucy

“Lynn's tragedy is that she finds self-esteem and an identity in the worst possible place”

Fyzal Boulifa • Director of Lynn + Lucy

British filmmaker Fyzal Boulifa impresses with his first feature, Lynn + Lucy, with which he is competing...  

25/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | New Directors

Stijn Bouma • Director

“I was overwhelmed by the idea of involuntary memory”

Stijn Bouma • Director

We caught up with Stijn Bouma to find out more about his short film Regained Memory, selected for the...  

28/06/2018 | Future Frames 2018

Stijn Bouma • Director of The Hunt for Meral O.

“I realised that as a society, we hadn’t understood what had happened at all: the devastation of lives”

Stijn Bouma • Director of The Hunt for Meral O.

The Dutch filmmaker explains why he wanted to transpose into fiction the dramatic, Kafkaesque story that...  

19/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Nathalie Bourdon • Director, Distribution and Market Development, National Film Board of Canada

“Europe is a natural partner for us”

Nathalie Bourdon • Director, Distribution and Market Development, National Film Board of Canada

The executive talked to us about the National Film Board of Canada’s work on backing non-fiction and...  

18/04/2025 | /Canada

Pascale Bourgaux  • Director of Hawar, Our Banished Children

"In times of war, the female body is a battlefield"

Pascale Bourgaux • Director of Hawar, Our Banished Children

We met with the Belgian journalist and filmmaker to discuss her shock documentary, revolving around a...  

07/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

Cédric Bourgeois • Director of Krump

"I’m happy to have been able to take risks with this film"

Cédric Bourgeois • Director of Krump

The young Belgian filmmaker chatted with us about his first feature film, a hopeless comedy following the...  

01/07/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet  • Director of Anaïs in Love

"It’s first and foremost a film about the power of desire"

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet • Director of Anaïs in Love

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker speaks about her first feature film, a fast-paced, existentialist comedy...  

12/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics' Week

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