Interviews

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

8507 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 10/11/2025. 645 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Laura Wandel  • Director of Playground

"I thought it would be interesting to take the viewpoint of the witness who feels torn"

Laura Wandel • Director of Playground

CANNES 2021: The Belgian filmmaker explains the immersive approach characterising her remarkable and incredibly intense first feature film, which was...  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Catherine Corsini  • Director of The Divide

“To consider oneself, to consider others and have some hope in the fact that people can talk to each other”

Catherine Corsini • Director of The Divide

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker discusses her at once funny and dramatic film unveiled in competition, which through fiction delves into a very agitated...  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Nathalie Álvarez Mesén  • Director of Clara Sola

“We have definitely raised the volume when it comes to addressing the patriarchal side of religion”

Nathalie Álvarez Mesén • Director of Clara Sola

CANNES 2021: The director shares some of her thoughts and memories from a journey that started years ago in both Costa Rica and Sweden  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Joachim Trier  • Director of The Worst Person in the World

“At the end of the day, all three of them feel like the worst person in the world; that’s my conclusion”

Joachim Trier • Director of The Worst Person in the World

CANNES 2021: The Norwegian director unpicks his seemingly cute, seemingly romantic comedy-drama  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

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

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