Interviews

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

8602 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 23/01/2026. 639 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Jessica Hausner  • Director of Club Zero

“Every young generation has to change the world”

Jessica Hausner • Director of Club Zero

CANNES 2023: The Austrian director returns to the competition with a bleak but very colourful film about a wellness guru and her teenage followers  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Rodrigo Moreno  • Director of The Delinquents

"I had a totally free spirit in making this film"

Rodrigo Moreno • Director of The Delinquents

CANNES 2023: The Argentinian director unpicks his new film, which follows two bank employees that question the routine life they carry out and decide to do...  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Lillah Halla  • Director of Power Alley

"This film is not only a portrait of intolerance"

Lillah Halla • Director of Power Alley

CANNES 2023: The Brazilian filmmaker discusses her first feature, centred on a promising volleyball player who is faced with an unwanted pregnancy  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics' Week

Lisandro Alonso  • Director of Eureka

“I hope the film stays with the audience for a long time”

Lisandro Alonso • Director of Eureka

CANNES 2023: The Argentinian director talks about his film, one that you should enjoy without trying to understand too much about it  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Cannes Première

João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora  • Directors of The Buriti Flower

"We spent years together with this indigenous community in Brazil"

João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora • Directors of The Buriti Flower

CANNES 2023: The directing duo once again follows the indigineous Krahô people in the heart of the Brazilian forest, this time over three time periods of...  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Elene Naveriani  • Director of Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

“I hope her character is empowering for others”

Elene Naveriani • Director of Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

CANNES 2023: The Swiss-based director with Georgian origins speaks about their portrait of a mature woman that knows what she wants  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors' Fortnight

Claude Schmitz  • Director of The Other Laurens

"I wanted to make a film that was both a tribute and also critical and ironic"

Claude Schmitz • Director of The Other Laurens

CANNES 2023: The Belgian filmmaker talks about his meta and mischievous film noir that probes the end of patriarchy, and plays with gender codes and genres  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors' Fortnight

Martin Provost  • Director of Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe

"I have been at the heart of their lives for several periods”

Martin Provost • Director of Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe

CANNES 2023: The director explains why he has embarked on a long love story about the painter Pierre Bonnard and his partner Marthe  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Cannes Première

Rosine Mbakam  • Director of Mambar Pierrette

"Documentary filmmaking has allowed me to understand the way I wanted to make fiction films"

Rosine Mbakam • Director of Mambar Pierrette

CANNES 2023: The Belgium-based Cameroonian filmmaker talks about her film showing the daily life of a worker and mother who takes hold of her destiny  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors' Fortnight

Mohamed Kordofani  • Director of Goodbye Julia

"The friendship story in my film is a model for the political situation in Sudan, and for a possible reconciliation"

Mohamed Kordofani • Director of Goodbye Julia

CANNES 2023: The Sudanese director discusses his first feature, a film that strikes a balance between a political and cultural backdrop and a highly...  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

GoCritic! Interview: Ondřej Moravec  • Director of VR film Darkening

“People realize that VR work Darkening is not a game and that depression is a real topic”

GoCritic! Interview: Ondřej Moravec • Director of VR film Darkening

Ondřej Moravec's animated autobiographical VR documentary Darkening is an intimate exploration of the impact of mental illness and the struggle to find...  

23/05/2023 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2023

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

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