Interviews

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

8323 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 17/07/2025. 660 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Yé Yé  • Director of H6

“I wanted to show the behaviour of the Chinese towards life, death and love”

Yé Yé • Director of H6

CANNES 2021: The Chinese-French director breaks down her new documentary film, which she shot in a large hospital in Shanghai  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Special Screenings

Enrico Chiesa, Isabelle Fauvel and Dieudonné Alaka • Coordinators and experts, OuiCoprod

“Professionals now know where to find projects from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific that are credible and pre-financed”

Enrico Chiesa, Isabelle Fauvel and Dieudonné Alaka • Coordinators and experts, OuiCoprod

CANNES 2021: The International Organisation of La Francophonie and the ACP (African States, Caribbean and Pacific Organisation) are launching the new...  

10/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Marché du Film

Niels Alberg  • Partner, Publikum

“Publikum can be used both for creative decision-making during the writing phase and in post-production”

Niels Alberg • Partner, Publikum

The Danish expert explained how Publikum can assist creators during the early-development stages and help them build their audience  

10/07/2021 | /Denmark

Clara Roquet  • Director of Libertad

“You can forge your own style of directing”

Clara Roquet • Director of Libertad

CANNES 2021: The screenwriter who has teamed up with filmmakers such as Jaime Rosales and Carlos Marqués-Marcet makes her feature-length directorial debut...  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics’ Week

Emmanuel Carrère  • Director of Between Two Worlds

“The film has a social aspect, but also a hitchcockian element”

Emmanuel Carrère • Director of Between Two Worlds

CANNES 2021: The famous novelist once again turned filmmaker decrypts his free adaptation of the book by Florence Aubenas, which opened the Directors’ Fortnight  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Vincent Le Port  • Director of Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer

“The viewer needs the necessary distance and space to reflect on what he sees”

Vincent Le Port • Director of Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer

CANNES 2021: The French director presents an intimate drama film about a young man struggling with his inner demons  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics’ Week

Constance Meyer  • Director of Robust

“I wanted to film these two bodies and tell the solitude of these two characters”

Constance Meyer • Director of Robust

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker discusses her first feature, presented in opening of the 60th Critics’ Week  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics' Week

Arthur Harari  • Director of Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

"I wanted to make a film that was bigger than me, that was beyond me"

Arthur Harari • Director of Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker explains the genesis of his extraordinary second feature, which was presented in the opening slot of the Un Certain Regard...  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Nikias Chryssos  • Director of A Pure Place

“I wanted to create a visual and musical experience that would drag the viewer into a different world”

Nikias Chryssos • Director of A Pure Place

The Greek-German director’s second feature, centring on a fictional sect, had its world premiere at this year's Filmfest München  

07/07/2021 | Filmfest München 2021

Mathieu Fournet • Director of European and International Affairs, CNC

“This Cannes Film Festival is for us the symbol of recovery”

Mathieu Fournet • Director of European and International Affairs, CNC

CANNES 2021: The director of European and international affairs of the French centre reflects on this singular year and on the event programme at the festival  

07/07/2021 | Cannes 2021

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović  • Director of Murina

“The water is a place where my character is free, but it’s also where she can spill some blood”

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović • Director of Murina

CANNES 2021: It’s a cruel summer lying in wait for teenager Julija in this Directors’ Fortnight title by the Dubrovnik-born filmmaker  

07/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Franka Potente  • Director of Home

“It's about people who don't have the luxury of building a facade around themselves”

Franka Potente • Director of Home

The actress's directorial debut is a German-French-Dutch-US co-production that will be released in German cinemas by the end of July  

07/07/2021 | /Germany/France/Netherlands/USA

Christian Krönes and Florian Weigensamer  • Directors of A Jewish Life

“We made this film because there is a new type of political leader taking over”

Christian Krönes and Florian Weigensamer • Directors of A Jewish Life

The Austrian directors unpick their latest Docaviv-screened documentary and the process behind making it together with two other helmers  

07/07/2021 | Docaviv 2021

Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova  • Directors of Women Do Cry

“This is not a normal film”

Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova • Directors of Women Do Cry

CANNES 2021: The women in this Un Certain Regard entry have a lot on their minds and have to learn to stop sweeping things under the carpet  

06/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Mark Cousins  • Director of The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

“We are all aliens from the planet Cinema”

Mark Cousins • Director of The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

CANNES 2021: With this and The Story of Film: A New Generation, the festival is giving the Northern Irish director the ultimate double bill this year  

06/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Cannes Classics

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