Interviews

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

8226 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 23/05/2025. 660 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

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

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