Interviews

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

8439 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 12/09/2025. 654 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Marco Bellocchio • Director of Exterior Night

“I wouldn’t know how to make a good TikTok video”

Marco Bellocchio • Director of Exterior Night

CANNES 2022: The 82-year-old Italian helmer breaks down his multi-perspective take on the kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro in 1978  

25/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Cannes Première

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi • Director of Forever Young

"Even at the most tragic of times, we still manage to laugh"

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi • Director of Forever Young

CANNES 2022: The Italian-French filmmaker unveiled her mature work diving back into the universe of young student-actors at Patrice Chéreau’s Théâtre des...  

24/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition

Lionel Baier • Director of Continental Drift (South)

“Europe can only function if there is desire between peoples”

Lionel Baier • Director of Continental Drift (South)

CANNES 2022: The Swiss filmmaker talks about the third part of his tetralogy on the construction of Europe  

24/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Directors' Fortnight

Simon Rieth • Director of Summer Scars

“Power and fantasy are metaphors for the very strong relationship between love and hate”

Simon Rieth • Director of Summer Scars

CANNES 2022: The young French filmmaker talks to us about his first feature film, which skillfully blends realism and fantasy  

24/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Critics’ Week

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk • Director of Pamfir

“Even if we’re talking about absolute good, it always has a side effect”

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk • Director of Pamfir

CANNES 2022: We chatted to the Ukrainian director about the origins of his feature debut, the intriguing dialect its characters use, and its possible roots...  

24/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Directors’ Fortnight

Serge Bozon • Director of Don Juan

“This film lent itself to the idea of a Don Juan who would not be this figure of swaggering manhood, getting everything he wants”

Serge Bozon • Director of Don Juan

CANNES 2022: After presenting his new musical, the French filmmaker explains why he likes to venture into places that we wouldn’t expect of him  

23/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Cannes Première

Emmanuel Mouret • Director of Diary of a Fleeting Affair

"What interested me most was making this little affair look like a big affair"

Emmanuel Mouret • Director of Diary of a Fleeting Affair

CANNES 2022: The French filmmaker discussed love, affairs, desire and emotions, as well as the question of gender, while explaining his latest movie  

23/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Cannes Première

Davy Chou • Director of Return to Seoul

“I take great pleasure in helping filmmakers accomplish their vision, when I really admire their talent”

Davy Chou • Director of Return to Seoul

CANNES 2022: We met up with the French-Cambodian director, who has crafted an impressive and intimate feature around the topics of adoption and identity  

22/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard

Dominik Moll • Director of The Night of the 12th

"The main character needed to question his own attitude, as a man, towards women"

Dominik Moll • Director of The Night of the 12th

CANNES 2022: The French-German filmmaker’s new movie is an ensemble police investigation reflecting a frayed society and broken male-female relationships  

22/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Cannes Première

Clément Cogitore • Director of Sons of Ramses

"What motivates me is creating enigmas, but instead of trying to solve them, I explore them as fully as possible"

Clément Cogitore • Director of Sons of Ramses

CANNES 2022: The French filmmaker unveils a brilliantly directed, social, urban and nocturnal thriller about a real-fake medium  

21/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Critics’ Week

Philippe Faucon • Director of Harkis

"We don’t have goodies on one side and baddies on the other"

Philippe Faucon • Director of Harkis

CANNES 2022: The French filmmaker hits home once again with a film about local soldiers fighting for the French during the Algerian War  

21/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Directors’ Fortnight

Emmanuelle Nicot • Director of Love According to Dalva

“I wanted to tell the story of the aftermath, where the traumas lodge”

Emmanuelle Nicot • Director of Love According to Dalva

CANNES 2022: The Belgian filmmaker talked about her surprisingly luminous portrait of a little 12-year-old girl who will have to take back control of her...  

21/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Critics’ Week

Jan Gassmann • Director of 99 Moons

“My movies are never far away from me; I need to live what I’m writing”

Jan Gassmann • Director of 99 Moons

CANNES 2022: We talked to the Swiss director, whose latest feature tells the story of two very different people who are unable to live apart  

21/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | ACID

Hubert Toint and Mark Denessen • Producers, Ginger Pictures

“What matters to us is quality; we don’t want to limit ourselves to a medium, a genre or even a geographic area”

Hubert Toint and Mark Denessen • Producers, Ginger Pictures

We met up with two of the associates behind the inherently pan-European production company, a joint venture between Benelux and Scandinavia  

20/05/2022 | /Belgium/Denmark

Kerem Ayan  • Istanbul Film Festival

“Succesful Film Festival starts from the the programming”

Kerem Ayan • Istanbul Film Festival

Kerem Ayan, Deputy Director at Instanbul Film Festival, is currently in Cannes watching about 6 films per day  

19/05/2022 | Euro Film Fest

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