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 13/09/2025. 651 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Mathieu Fournet • Director of European and International Affairs, CNC

"We’re optimistic that the crisis will begin to lift in the spring"

Mathieu Fournet • Director of European and International Affairs, CNC

Strategic European cultural assets, the AVMS Directive and expectations of change all form part of the CNC’s online "Independence in the Service of...  

20/01/2022 | /France

Thierry Michel • Director of Empire of Silence

"We can’t just stand back and watch forever, without saying or doing anything"

Thierry Michel • Director of Empire of Silence

The director uses his documentary to look back on 25 years of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the blind eye and deaf ear turned by the...  

19/01/2022 | /Belgium

Roberto Stabile • Head of International Relations, ANICA

“There’s a huge desire to get back to the relationship Italy and France enjoyed in the past”

Roberto Stabile • Head of International Relations, ANICA

On the occasion of De Rome à Paris, we discuss the various strategies in place to internationalise the Italian system  

14/01/2022 | /Italy/France

Roderik Smits • Film academic

“The question is to what extent film festivals with international appeal will continue to function as premiere events and provide a springboard for the distribution of high-profile films”

Roderik Smits • Film academic

The academic shared some key findings from his recent study titled European Film Festivals in Transition? Covid and Beyond  

13/01/2022 | /Europe

Ove Rishøj Jensen • Owner of Paradiddle Pictures and co-founder of DocCelerator

“People start shooting too early: you could label it as FOMO filmmaking”

Ove Rishøj Jensen • Owner of Paradiddle Pictures and co-founder of DocCelerator

We get the low-down on the new editions of the DocCelerator workshops, which will take place online in February, April and May  

12/01/2022 | /Denmark

Massimo Donati • Director of Diario di Spezie

“It was important for me to keep elements of film noir alive within a subversive structure”

Massimo Donati • Director of Diario di Spezie

The Italian writer-director speaks of the book-to-screen adaptation of this story exploring figurative art and the art of cooking  

03/01/2022 | /Italy

Juliette Le Baron and Alicia López Ríos • Project manager for International Development and project developer for the UK and Ireland, filmfriend

“The platform is dedicated to libraries – primarily, public and university ones”

Juliette Le Baron and Alicia López Ríos • Project manager for International Development and project developer for the UK and Ireland, filmfriend

During our conversation, we discovered how the filmfriend platform helps public and university libraries to build a vast film catalogue  

28/12/2021 | /Germany/Austria/Switzerland

Kacper Lisowski • Director of Judges Under Pressure

“I had to stay close to those faces”

Kacper Lisowski • Director of Judges Under Pressure

In his documentary, the Polish director shows people who, despite their government’s recent actions, refuse to be “muzzled”  

21/12/2021 | /Poland

Vincent Lowy and Raïssa Lahcine • Director and director of International Relations, École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière

“We don’t train directors, producers or editors, but we educate sound engineers and DoPs as well as other related technical roles”

Vincent Lowy and Raïssa Lahcine • Director and director of International Relations, École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière

Our conversation focused on the main opportunities offered to prospective students by the prestigious French film school  

20/12/2021 | /France

Pnina Blayer • Artistic Director, Haifa International Film Festival

“We’re still studying the online festival edition and we want to keep physical cinema but everything is so fragile, it’s difficult to plan”

Pnina Blayer • Artistic Director, Haifa International Film Festival

19/12/2021 | Euro Film Fest

Elise Jalladeau • General Director, Thessaloniki Film Festival

“We are working on different options to continue to use online platform, but not as a cinema or streaming platform”

Elise Jalladeau • General Director, Thessaloniki Film Festival

19/12/2021 | Euro Film Fest

Albert Wiederspiel • General Director, Filmfest Hamburg

“Festival and online can’t go really together - festival is about meeting people and experiencing the film together”

Albert Wiederspiel • General Director, Filmfest Hamburg

19/12/2021 | Euro Film Fest

Michel Hazanavicius • Director

“It’d be good if there were some cinema left”

Michel Hazanavicius • Director

Theatres, media chronology, platforms, Final Cut: we met with the Oscar-winning filmmaker, jury president at the 13th Les Arcs Film Festival  

17/12/2021 | Les Arcs 2021

Adeline Margueron • Distributor, Le Parc Distribution

“The secret is always knowing your territory, and what the audience demands”

Adeline Margueron • Distributor, Le Parc Distribution

The Liège-based outfit’s head of distribution talked through her work in distributing animated and family-orientated flicks in the French-speaking part of...  

15/12/2021 | /Belgium

Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier • Directors of The Velvet Queen

"We’re all sensitive to this type of beauty; we need it"

Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier • Directors of The Velvet Queen

We met with the duo who joined forces with writer Sylvain Tesson to create a moving and fascinating documentary, which was unveiled in Cannes and is now...  

15/12/2021 | Les Arcs 2021

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