Interviews

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

8293 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 03/07/2025. 661 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Cédric Klapisch • Director of Colours of Time

"When we invent a story, we try to go where no one has gone before, which is the opposite of what AI does, which feeds on what has already been done"

Cédric Klapisch • Director of Colours of Time

CANNES 2025: The French director talks to us about his generous and accessible film, a family story that questions our relationship with progress and modernity  

24/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Out of Competition

Morad Mostafa • Director of Aisha Can't Fly Away

"I asked myself why, in Egyptian cinema, we don't have any films about non-Egyptians characters"

Morad Mostafa • Director of Aisha Can't Fly Away

CANNES 2025: The Egyptian filmmaker talked to us about the origins of his debut feature, centred on an African migrant in Cairo  

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

Francesco Sossai • Director of The Last One for the Road

“I wanted to experience another adventurous night by making this film”

Francesco Sossai • Director of The Last One for the Road

CANNES 2025: The Italian director discusses his new movie, through which he raises a glass to the men who drink  

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

Déni Oumar Pitsaev • Director of Imago

“The most Chechen aspect of the film is the sense of resilience – it’s about facing hardship without losing your humanity”

Déni Oumar Pitsaev • Director of Imago

CANNES 2025: The director discusses the long journey he embarked upon to make his documentary, exploring identity, family, resilience and Chechen culture  

24/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

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

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Directors of Young Mothers

"Babies added a documentary element to the shots, a permanent unknown"

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Directors of Young Mothers

CANNES 2025: The Belgian filmmakers talk about their new film, in which they change the narrative paradigm by daring to tell a choral story  

24/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Saeed Roustaee • Director of Woman and Child

"People haven't yet learned to be honest"

Saeed Roustaee • Director of Woman and Child

CANNES 2025: The Iranian filmmaker deciphers his multi-faceted film centred on a broken woman who opens her eyes, picks herself up and becomes a driving...  

24/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Alex Lutz • Director of Connemara

"Beyond their opposing social backgrounds, what stands in Hélène's and Christophe's way is perhaps above all a question of timing"

Alex Lutz • Director of Connemara

CANNES 2025: The French director and actor gives details about his fourth feature film, a social melodrama about the opposing spirits of two lovers  

23/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Cannes Première

Antony Cordier • Director of The Party's Over!

“I recognised myself in the main character, in his situation, his reactions, his complexes and his problems”

Antony Cordier • Director of The Party's Over!

CANNES 2025: The French director uses humour to talk about prejudices and privileges based on social classes in his latest satire  

23/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Director's Fortnight

Hlynur Pálmason • Director of The Love That Remains

“There’s a lot of beauty, and you really need to take care of it – it’s so easy to take things for granted”

Hlynur Pálmason • Director of The Love That Remains

CANNES 2025: The Icelandic director talks about his, in a way, very strange creative process  

23/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Cannes Première

Ben Vandendaele • Founder, FilmConnector

"FilmConnector is a platform that will allow you to never use Google Sheets again for your festival submission strategy"

Ben Vandendaele • Founder, FilmConnector

CANNES 2025: The expert has unveiled a bold new initiative born from the everyday frustrations of festival submissions and fragmented workflows  

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

Josef Kullengård • Head of Industry, Göteborg Film Festival

"The industry needs to go from not recognising what is going on around us to resisting the reality that has already started to happen"

Josef Kullengård • Head of Industry, Göteborg Film Festival

CANNES 2025: The expert shares his thoughts on this year’s Marché du Film and on the 12th edition of the Nostradamus Report, a document that takes the...  

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

Fred Burle, Géraldine Sprimont, Lionel Massol • Producers

“Dancing between creativity and finances is exactly what makes producers’ work so thrilling and interesting”

Fred Burle, Géraldine Sprimont, Lionel Massol • Producers

CANNES 2025: The producers from Germany, Belgium and France discuss their projects and their attendance at the festival through the EFP initiative Producers...  

23/05/2025 | Producers on the Move 2025

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

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