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.

 
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

Karin Rywkind Segal  • Artistic director, Docaviv

"The ability to question and raise one's voice is crucial for democracy"

Karin Rywkind Segal • Artistic director, Docaviv

Docaviv's artistic director talked us through the festival's 23rd edition, unspooling from 1-10 July  

05/07/2021 | Docaviv 2021

Loïc Valceschini  • Acting artistic director, NIFFF

"These last few years, fantasy cinema has become a very productive incubator for young creation"

Loïc Valceschini • Acting artistic director, NIFFF

The acting artistic director of the innovating festival which defends fantasy cinema analyses its 20th edition  

02/07/2021 | NIFFF 2021

Alina Gorlova  • Director of This Rain Will Never Stop

“I wanted to create a dream, more than anything else”

Alina Gorlova • Director of This Rain Will Never Stop

In her IceDocs-winning film, the Ukrainian director shows the endless circle of conflict  

30/06/2021 | IceDocs 2021

Alessandro Grande  • Director of Regina

“The greater the problem for a young person, the stronger the relief is when it is resolved”

Alessandro Grande • Director of Regina

The director tells us about his feature debut, presented last November at the 38th Torino Film Festival and now winner of the Best Feature Debut award at...  

30/06/2021 | /Italy

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