Interviews

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

8721 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 13/03/2026. 634 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Elie Grappe • Director of Olga

"I wanted to explore the links between a geographical and an intimate frontier"

Elie Grappe • Director of Olga

CANNES 2021: The French director presented his first feature film in the Critics’ Week and won the SACD Prize  

19/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics' Week

Eva Husson • Director of Mothering Sunday

"Sex is part of the equation, but nudity is political"

Eva Husson • Director of Mothering Sunday

CANNES 2021: The French auteur talks to Cineuropa about putting a modern spin on the British period drama  

19/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Cannes Premiere

Sergei Loznitsa • Director of Babi Yar. Context

“These people were like dust underground and for 80 years, nothing was done about it”

Sergei Loznitsa • Director of Babi Yar. Context

CANNES 2021: The director turns his attention to a dark historical event that Europe has long tried to ignore and forget  

19/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Special Screenings

Arnaud Desplechin  • Director of Deception

“She’s defending the cause of women, all women, whilst he’s defending the cause of ‘each’ woman”

Arnaud Desplechin • Director of Deception

CANNES 2021: The French director finally adapts one of his greatest influences, American author Philip Roth, and we talk about all that, and more  

17/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Cannes Premiere

Ari Folman  • Director of Where Is Anne Frank

“I would never do an animation film for adults again”

Ari Folman • Director of Where Is Anne Frank

CANNES 2021: The Israeli director reveals how his mother helped him decide to make an animated adventure based on The Diary of Anne Frank  

17/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Out of Competition

CB Yi • Director of Moneyboys

“You have to love and accept yourself in the first place in order to be able to give love and respect to others in return”

CB Yi • Director of Moneyboys

CANNES 2021: The Taiwanese-Austrian director presents a drama about male prostitution in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes  

17/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Ildikó Enyedi  • Director of The Story of My Wife

“We have to accept and embrace the fact that we won’t find an answer”

Ildikó Enyedi • Director of The Story of My Wife

CANNES 2021: The Hungarian helmer talks to Cineuropa about her adaptation of Milán Füst’s novel, which is playing in competition  

17/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Samuel Benchetrit • Director of Love Songs for Tough Guys

“I think when we are in love, we go back to being children, we are vulnerable and insecure”

Samuel Benchetrit • Director of Love Songs for Tough Guys

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker has presented his new tragicomedy starring a series of notable actors from France and Belgium  

17/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Cannes Premiere

Rachel Lang  • Director of Our Men

"It’s a film about relationships, and the frustration involved in waiting"

Rachel Lang • Director of Our Men

CANNES 2021: The French director living in Brussels tell us more about her motivations for exploring the fragile state of Foreign Legion relationships with...  

17/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Simon Coulibaly Gillard  • Director of Aya

"I can leave a trace of what was there, before everything disappears"

Simon Coulibaly Gillard • Director of Aya

CANNES 2021: The young director discusses his unusual fiction film about a young girl hailing from an island off the Ivory Coast who is forced to abandon...  

17/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | ACID

Joachim Lafosse  • Director of The Restless

“The illness takes so much space in their relationship that they forget themselves in it”

Joachim Lafosse • Director of The Restless

CANNES 2021: The Belgian director tells us about his universal and heartbreaking reflection on the question of breakdown within the relationship  

17/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Julia Ducournau, Vincent Lindon  • Director of and actor in Titane

“For the first 25 minutes, you go: ‘Wait a minute, where am I?!’ And then, you just know – inside a love story”

Julia Ducournau, Vincent Lindon • Director of and actor in Titane

CANNES 2021: In her competition entry, the French director introduces the oddest pairing since The Shape of Water  

16/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

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

Privacy Policy