Interviews

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

8471 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 08/10/2025. 651 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Liv Ullmann  • Main subject of A Road Less Travelled

“I was proud to do it – and even getting a toilet seat the size of a throne”

Liv Ullmann • Main subject of A Road Less Travelled

CANNES 2023: The celebrated Norwegian cinema legend is the main subject of an elaborate documentary about her life and work  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Cannes Classics

Justine Triet  • Director of Anatomy of a Fall

"The balance of her possible guilt and innocence hangs by a thread”

Justine Triet • Director of Anatomy of a Fall

CANNES 2023: The French filmmaker describes her new film, a successful journey into a very unique genre film  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Katell Quillévéré  • Director of Along Came Love

"I wanted to break the aesthetic codes of melodrama"

Katell Quillévéré • Director of Along Came Love

CANNES 2023: The director explains her approach to a 20-year period film in post-war France telling an atypical love story  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Cannes Première

Faouzi Bensaïdi  • Director of Deserts

“This is a film against close-ups”

Faouzi Bensaïdi • Director of Deserts

CANNES 2023: Wide open spaces are the clear protagonists in the Moroccan director's buddy movie-turned-love story  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Ramata-Toulaye Sy  • Director of Banel & Adama

"Everything had to follow Banel's emotional journey"

Ramata-Toulaye Sy • Director of Banel & Adama

CANNES 2023: The young filmmaker unveils the intentions of her first feature film, shot in Senegal and propelled directly into the festival's official...  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Molly Manning Walker  • Director of How to Have Sex

“Every single woman has gone through something similar, and we just don’t talk about it”

Molly Manning Walker • Director of How to Have Sex

CANNES 2023: Summer has never been more awkward, or felt more real, than in the British director’s film  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Kaouther Ben Hania  • Director of Four Daughters

"It was interesting to bring actors, like mirrors, face to face with real characters"

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of Four Daughters

CANNES 2023: The Tunisian director, in the running for the Palme d'Or for the first time, explains her unique approach, which blurs the line between...  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Nuri Bilge Ceylan  • Director of About Dry Grasses

"What neither time nor culture changes are the souls that are similar everywhere"

Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Director of About Dry Grasses

CANNES 2023: The Turkish filmmaker delivers some insights into his new film centered on a teacher feeling stuck in an isolated corner of Anatolia  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Ann Sirot & Raphael Balboni  • Directors of The (Ex)perience of Love

"If we were told that we’d have zero constraints for our next film... We'd go for it!"

Ann Sirot & Raphael Balboni • Directors of The (Ex)perience of Love

CANNES 2023: With this new film, the whimsical Brussels filmmaking duo confirms the hopes placed in their first feature, Madly in Life  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Iris Kaltenbäck  • Director of The Rapture

"I read a headline in the newspaper about this woman and made the film to understand her, without having answers"

Iris Kaltenbäck • Director of The Rapture

CANNES 2023: The French filmmaker discusses the topics, the making and the cast of her first feature, which follows a young midwife who embarks on a...  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics' Week

Bertrand Mandico  • Director of She Is Conann

"I wanted to tell a demonic story, a story of barbarity with a female twist"

Bertrand Mandico • Director of She Is Conann

CANNES 2023: The French filmmaker explains his total revisitation of the legend of Conan the Barbarian and his desire for a heroic fantasy film which veers...  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Amat Escalante  • Director of Lost in the Night

“The idea of this film is that we’re really all part of the problem”

Amat Escalante • Director of Lost in the Night

CANNES 2023: The acclaimed Mexican auteur returns with a dark story of hidden secrets  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Cannes Première

Rima Abdul-Malak  • French Minister of Culture

"Culture is becoming a political subject"

Rima Abdul-Malak • French Minister of Culture

CANNES 2023: The French Minister of Culture discussed the film industry and the challenges it is currently facing  

21/05/2023 | Cannes 2023

Stéphan Castang  • Director of Vincent Must Die

"Little by little, we advance towards the nightmare"

Stéphan Castang • Director of Vincent Must Die

CANNES 2023: The French filmmaker sheds light on his highly original first feature film revolving around a man who suddenly falls victim to incomprehensible...  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Paloma Sermon-Daï • Director of It’s Raining in the House

"The film was written as it was made"

Paloma Sermon-Daï • Director of It’s Raining in the House

CANNES 2023: The young Belgian filmmaker talks about her sensitive portrait of a brother and a sister who live their last adolescent summer in a Wallonian...  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

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