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.

 
Blerta Basholli • Director of Dua

“Even if it’s during a conflict, you want to have these little moments where you feel normal”

Blerta Basholli • Director of Dua

CANNES 2026: The Kosovar-based director talks about not holding back from putting the personal on screen and finding a close-up subjectivity in her...  

19/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Critics’ Week

Avril Besson • Director of Marvelous Mornings

“Sexuality and gender are not at all the same subject, and can have different consequences on the way you approach intimacy”

Avril Besson • Director of Marvelous Mornings

CANNES 2026: The French director speaks about the collaboration with her two lead actors and about having one’s life actively inspire the creation of a film  

19/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Special Screenings

Rodrigo Sorogoyen • Director of The Beloved

“In our lives, we tell ourselves a story”

Rodrigo Sorogoyen • Director of The Beloved

CANNES 2026: The Spanish filmmaker discusses his new film, which blends life and cinema, starring Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo  

18/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Competition

Asghar Farhadi • Director of Parallel Tales

"It was important for me to bring together different worlds of creation"

Asghar Farhadi • Director of Parallel Tales

CANNES 2026: The Iranian director talks about his second French-language film, featuring an ensemble led by Isabelle Huppert and loosely inspired by...  

17/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Competition

Pierre Le Gall • Director of Flesh and Fuel

“I really liked the idea of filming an environment that could bring together two themes I love in cinema: time and love”

Pierre Le Gall • Director of Flesh and Fuel

CANNES 2026: The French filmmaker discusses the genesis of his debut feature, a surprising story of tenderness and an anti-road movie  

17/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Critics’ Week

Marine Atlan • Director of La Gradiva

"The film explores the idea of arriving in a land which gradually consumes all the characters"

Marine Atlan • Director of La Gradiva

CANNES 2026: The French director shares the genesis of her first feature, which is an ensemble film shot in Naples and centred around a class of high school...  

17/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Critics’ Week

Lila Pinell • Director of Shana

“The character is always on the move; she’s always full of surprises”

Lila Pinell • Director of Shana

CANNES 2026: The French filmmaker talks about her second feature, part of her ongoing commitment to exploring reality through the lens of tragicomedy, once...  

17/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Directors’ Fortnight

Marion Le Corroller • Director of Species

“When I found out it was a condition where you sweat blood, I thought it was brilliant"

Marion Le Corroller • Director of Species

CANNES 2026: The filmmaker explains her fascination with the genre of politicised body horror, which she explores in a radical way in her debut feature film  

17/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Midnight Screenings

Valentina Maurel • Director of Forever Your Maternal Animal

“I still resist the idea that fiction is there to depict a linear path”

Valentina Maurel • Director of Forever Your Maternal Animal

CANNES 2026: We talked with the filmmaker who continues to put Costa Rica on the map of arthouse cinema, as she takes us on the journey of a young woman...  

16/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Un Certain Regard

Manuela Martelli • Director of The Meltdown

“Both Chile and Germany have a very clear moment in their history when they started to regain their democracy”

Manuela Martelli • Director of The Meltdown

CANNES 2026: The director of 1976 discusses the political and interpersonal stakes in her sophomore feature  

16/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Un Certain Regard

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet • Director of A Woman’s Life

“What interests me is the intensity, the depth, the human dimension, the very heart of intimacy”

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet • Director of A Woman’s Life

CANNES 2026: The director explains why it was so important to her to make a film centred on a woman in her fifties, exploring all the different facets of...  

16/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Competition

Diego Luna • Director of Ashes

“I believe cinema is, by definition, political; there’s no way around it”

Diego Luna • Director of Ashes

CANNES 2026: The Mexican actor and director discusses the concepts of migration and identity, reflecting on political cinema and the collaborative nature of...  

16/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Special Screenings

Paweł Pawlikowski • Director of Fatherland

“They’re put up against a divided Germany that, on one hand, is very crude and, on the other, is also crude but a bit more interesting”

Paweł Pawlikowski • Director of Fatherland

CANNES 2026: The Polish director shares some reflections on his new work, focused on the return of Thomas Mann from his US exile to post-war Germany(s)  

16/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Competition

Jorge Thielen Armand • Director of Death Has No Master

“Instead of a hero searching for freedom, you get characters descending into darkness”

Jorge Thielen Armand • Director of Death Has No Master

CANNES 2026: The Caracas-born director breaks down his Asia Argento-starring thriller, which draws on many different genres  

15/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Directors’ Fortnight

Vincent Garenq • Director of Forsaken

“We wanted to make a film that reflects France, featuring actors from different backgrounds and with different beliefs, centred on the values of liberty, equality and fraternity”

Vincent Garenq • Director of Forsaken

CANNES 2026: The French director discusses the political significance of his film, as well as the importance of telling Samuel Paty’s story to a young audience  

15/05/2026 | Cannes 2026 | Out of Competition

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