Interviews

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

9046 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/09/2026. 605 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Linda Mutawi • Producer, Fikra

"It’s everybody’s responsibility to grow the industry, and keep it evolving, moving and representing what we stand for in the world"

Linda Mutawi • Producer, Fikra

CANNES 2026: The producer reflected on the rapidly changing landscape of independent production and the growing funding challenges facing European cinema today  

27/05/2026 | Indie Producer Focus

Daniel Auteuil • Director of When the Night Falls

“I’m not just sitting around waiting for someone to come and get me”

Daniel Auteuil • Director of When the Night Falls

CANNES 2026: The French actor discusses his sixth feature film as a director and his sensory approach to cinema  

27/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Cannes Première

Rachel Lang • Director of Mata

“I wanted to make a spy film with a female lead, exploring the profession in its most practical sense, far removed from the James Bond-style characters”

Rachel Lang • Director of Mata

We sat down with the French filmmaker to discuss her third feature film, in which she returns to her signature style whilst venturing into new territory  

27/05/2026 | /France/Belgium

Agnès Jaoui • Director of Crescendo

“I wanted to create a dialogue between these worlds, which in real life sometimes struggle to communicate at all”

Agnès Jaoui • Director of Crescendo

CANNES 2026: The director and actor looks back on her first film written without Jean-Pierre Bacri, in which she imagines an opera production disrupted by...  

27/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Out of Competition

Anna Ramskogler-Witt • Artistic director, Doxumentale

“The current moment calls for a rethink and a genuine expansion of what non-fiction can be”

Anna Ramskogler-Witt • Artistic director, Doxumentale

The Berlin-based documentary festival’s artistic director discusses its imminent edition, its industry initiatives and its link to the German capital  

26/05/2026 | Doxumentale 2026

Rebecca De Pas • Project manager, Fondazione Prada Film Fund

“We want to support independent films with strong artistic ambition"

Rebecca De Pas • Project manager, Fondazione Prada Film Fund

CANNES 2026: The project manager outlines the philosophy of the new fund, its successful first call and the growing role of private players in financing...  

26/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Marché du Film

Viesturs Kairišs • Director of Ulya

"Everyone has an inner freak, and the film tries to understand how to let that inner freak live"

Viesturs Kairišs • Director of Ulya

CANNES 2026: The Latvian filmmaker talks about his biopic of basketball icon Uļjana Semjonova, both an intimate coming-of-age story and a poetic journey...  

26/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Un Certain Regard

Aina Clotet • Director of and actress in Alive

“The film is torn between two forces: fear and desire”

Aina Clotet • Director of and actress in Alive

CANNES 2026: The winner of the Rising Star Award talks about her debut as a feature-film director, her sense of humour, science and resilience  

26/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Critics’ Week

Louis Clichy • Director of Iron Boy

"At the age of forty, I realised that with 3D, I’d lost something along the way"

Louis Clichy • Director of Iron Boy

CANNES 2026: The French filmmaker discusses his autobiographical inspirations and the aesthetic choices that shaped his animated film  

26/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Un Certain Regard

Marco Nguyen, Simon Balteaux • Co-director and co-writer of Jim Queen

“The simple act of using humor on these topics today is, in itself, an act of activism”

Marco Nguyen, Simon Balteaux • Co-director and co-writer of Jim Queen

CANNES 2026: Two of the people behind the adult-oriented animated film spoke to us about the origins of the project and the deeper meanings behind its story  

26/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Midnight Screenings

Sompot Chidgasornpongse • Director of 9 Temples to Heaven

“It was almost like recreation for us – instead of going to a beachside hotel, we went to the temple”

Sompot Chidgasornpongse • Director of 9 Temples to Heaven

CANNES 2026: The Thai director picks apart his personal story about a family visiting nine Buddhist temples in order to gain merit for their grandmother  

26/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Directors’ Fortnight

Eivind Landsvik • Director of Low Expectations

“I still remember when I wrote the title on the first page of the script and was convinced that this film would never be made”

Eivind Landsvik • Director of Low Expectations

CANNES 2026: The Norwegian helmer shares his thoughts on his feature debut, which provides quite a warm reflection on the state of depression  

26/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Directors’ Fortnight

Tiago Guedes • Director of Aquí

“It’s all about creating an atmosphere and a situation that the actors can explore, where they trust you and you trust them”

Tiago Guedes • Director of Aquí

CANNES 2026: The Portuguese director sat down with us to unpick the secrets behind adapting a 900-page saga into a three-hour-20-minute film  

26/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Cannes Premiere

María Martínez Bayona • Director of The End of It

"If you are immortal, what can you be beyond immortal?"

María Martínez Bayona • Director of The End of It

CANNES 2026: The Spanish director reflects on mortality and the strange emptiness of a society where people can live forever but no longer know what it...  

25/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Cannes Première

Bertrand Mandico • Director of Roma Elastica

“I added another layer to the history of Rome”

Bertrand Mandico • Director of Roma Elastica

CANNES 2026: The French director explains how his Marion Cotillard-starrer is somehow a tribute to all of the different layers that make up Italian cinema...  

23/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Midnight Screenings

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