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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Valdimar Jóhannsson • Director of Lamb

“You can call Lamb a ‘genre film’, but for me, it’s a visual poem”

Valdimar Jóhannsson • Director of Lamb

CANNES 2021: The Icelandic director proves that, despite what we might think, we can never really control Mother Nature  

15/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes • Directors of The Tsugua Diaries

“The film was influenced by this feeling of having an alteration in the perception of time”

Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes • Directors of The Tsugua Diaries

CANNES 2021: The Portuguese filmmaking team discuss love and partnerships, the lack of joy in contemporary cinema, and the dilemmas of the COVID-19 era  

15/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Jonas Carpignano • Director of A Chiara

"This is a detailed, distinct study of the community I’ve been always part of"

Jonas Carpignano • Director of A Chiara

CANNES 2021: The Italian filmmaker discusses his latest film, which can be called a spin-off of his previous one, both set in the Calabrian commune of Gioia...  

15/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors' Fortnight

Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber • Director and writer of Evolution

"We wanted to talk about how trauma and memory work"

Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber • Director and writer of Evolution

CANNES 2021: The Hungarian director and screenwriter discuss their prodigious, experimental and impactful film in fragments, unveiled in the Cannes Premiere...  

14/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Cannes Premiere

Asghar Farhadi • Director of A Hero

“When people say, ‘You’re on TV,’ it means you’re on the side of the government”

Asghar Farhadi • Director of A Hero

CANNES 2021: The Iranian director, quite the hero himself, is back in his home country after his Spanish sojourn Everybody Knows  

14/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Mia Hansen-Løve • Director of Bergman Island

“You’d think his almighty presence would feel very intimidating, but to me it was the opposite”

Mia Hansen-Løve • Director of Bergman Island

CANNES 2021: Not just an homage to the mega-auteur of cinema and his mythical home, the French director’s film is also a homecoming of sorts for her  

14/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis • Directors of The Tale of King Crab

“The role of Luciano grew with our lead actor; he really became the character”

Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis • Directors of The Tale of King Crab

CANNES 2021: The Italian duo have presented their first feature film, set in a fictional 19th century, in the Directors’ Fortnight  

13/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Teodora Ana Mihai • Director of La Civil

"A mother whose daughter was kidnapped in Mexico told me: 'When I wake up in the morning I want to kill or die'"

Teodora Ana Mihai • Director of La Civil

CANNES 2021: The Belgian-Romanian director delved into the Mexican cauldron to direct her thrilling first feature, and now talks to us about it  

13/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre • Directors of Zero Fucks Given

"Our approach is artisanal, it’s an ongoing research process"

Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre • Directors of Zero Fucks Given

CANNES 2021: The directors look back on the ultra-modern loneliness they explored in their first feature film while working in Paris and Brussels  

13/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics’ Week

Eskil Vogt • Director of The Innocents

“Because children are still ‘unfinished’, they make for very interesting storytelling”

Eskil Vogt • Director of The Innocents

CANNES 2021: The Norwegian filmmaker tells us more about his chilling childhood tale, which he wrote and directed himself  

13/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Radu Muntean • Director of Întregalde

“I think heroes are very boring in cinema”

Radu Muntean • Director of Întregalde

CANNES 2021: The Romanian director takes quite a deviation from his usual urban dramas, as his seventh feature is set deep in the freezing Carpathian Mountains  

13/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Nadav Lapid • Director of Ahed’s Knee

“I’m not script-driven in the traditional way; the lead character is the existential melody of the film, the heart, the music”

Nadav Lapid • Director of Ahed’s Knee

CANNES 2021: The Israeli director discusses his formally bold new film, how a typical “Lapid” protagonist is born and the influence of rap music on his...  

13/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Sebastian Meise • Director of Great Freedom

"My film tells a story of tragic fate in an era where love is treated as crime"

Sebastian Meise • Director of Great Freedom

CANNES 2021: The Austrian director discusses homosexuality, post-war Germany and his film, one of the sensations in this year's Un Certain Regard  

13/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Achouackh Abakar • Director of and actress in Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

"The film is about a woman bravely taking her destiny into her own hands, but also about a country where women help each other"

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Achouackh Abakar • Director of and actress in Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

CANNES 2021: The Chadian director is back in the Palme d'Or competition with his new film, which follows a woman surmounting social and religious taboos  

13/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet • Director of Anaïs in Love

"It’s first and foremost a film about the power of desire"

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet • Director of Anaïs in Love

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker speaks about her first feature film, a fast-paced, existentialist comedy of manners unveiled in Critics’ Week  

12/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics' Week

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