Interviews

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

8477 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 11/10/2025. 655 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Shahrbanoo Sadat  • Director of The Orphanage

“Some people feel I don’t talk enough about war and politics in my films”

Shahrbanoo Sadat • Director of The Orphanage

CANNES 2019: Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat breaks down The Orphanage, the second part of a planned pentalogy that began with the acclaimed Wolf and Sheep  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Artemio Benki  • Director of Solo

"I prefer a humanistic approach that comes out of honest curiosity"

Artemio Benki • Director of Solo

CANNES 2019: We caught up with Paris-born, Prague-based filmmaker Artemio Benki to find out more about his feature-length directorial debut, Solo  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | ACID

Tonje Hessen Schei • Director

"We have a technology here revolutionising our world"

Tonje Hessen Schei • Director

CANNES 2019: At the Marché du Film, documentary filmmaker Tonje Hessen Schei discusses the technologies that have helped her shape her work  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Marché du Film

Julie Brill • Corporate vice-president, Microsoft

"AI could help screenwriters and directors as they try to develop stories"

Julie Brill • Corporate vice-president, Microsoft

CANNES 2019: Julie Brill, corporate vice-president and General Counsel of Global Privacy & Regulatory Affairs deputy at Microsoft, discusses the strength of...  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Marché du Film

Andreas Horvath  • Director of Lillian

"‘We want to see what happens on the road,’ we said. Potential backers just shook their heads"

Andreas Horvath • Director of Lillian

CANNES 2019: We sat down with Austrian documentarian Andreas Horvath to unpick his fifth feature-length work, Lillian  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Claude Lelouch  • Director of The Best Years of a Life

“I have always regarded myself as an amateur”

Claude Lelouch • Director of The Best Years of a Life

CANNES 2019: We spoke to Claude Lelouch about his 49th film, The Best Years of a Life, in which he reunites the man and the woman from his 1966 Grand Prix...  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Out of Competition

Silvia Costa  • MEP and rapporteur for the Creative Europe – MEDIA programme

"We must wage the battle on the cultural level to ensure a future for the EU’s political strategy"

Silvia Costa • MEP and rapporteur for the Creative Europe – MEDIA programme

CANNES 2019: Cineuropa got the chance to meet Silvia Costa at the Cannes Film Festival, where she took stock of her two mandates at the European Parliament  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019

Cesar Diaz • Director of Our Mothers

"I didn’t want to give a history lesson, I wanted to give history a human form"

Cesar Diaz • Director of Our Mothers

CANNES 2019: We met with Cesar Diaz, the Guatemalan director now settled in Belgium, whose first film, Our Mothers, is being presented this year during...  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics’ Week

Diao Yinan • Director of The Wild Goose Lake

"I very much want to rely on the visual language, rather than on dialogues"

Diao Yinan • Director of The Wild Goose Lake

CANNES 2019: We met up with Chinese filmmaker Diao Yinan, who is participating for the first time in the Palme d'Or competition with his new film The Wild...  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Bruno Dumont • Director of Joan of Arc

"Joan of Arc represents the human side of what we all are"

Bruno Dumont • Director of Joan of Arc

CANNES 2019: We met up with French director Bruno Dumont, who is presenting his latest film, Joan of Arc, in Un Certain Regard  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Un Certain Regard

Pedro Almodóvar • Director of Pain & Glory

"I study each and every detail with a magnifying glass"

Pedro Almodóvar • Director of Pain & Glory

CANNES 2019: Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar spoke to the international press about his new film, Pain & Glory, in competition at Cannes  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Mounia Meddour  • Director of Papicha

"It’s important to speak about fashion because there is a masculine and a feminine side to it"

Mounia Meddour • Director of Papicha

CANNES 2019: Algerian helmer Mounia Meddour gives us the low-down on her feature debut, Papicha, screening in Un Certain Regard  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Un Certain Regard

Asif Kapadia  • Director of Diego Maradona

“Most people know the latter Maradona, when he was a beast”

Asif Kapadia • Director of Diego Maradona

CANNES 2019: We caught up with British director Asif Kapadia to discuss his insightful documentary Diego Maradona, screening out of competition  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Out of Competition

Christophe Honoré • Director of On A Magical Night

"She finds herself in a room overrun with men who want to speak on her behalf"

Christophe Honoré • Director of On A Magical Night

CANNES 2019: French filmmaker Christophe Honoré chatted with us about his funny and sophisticated movie On A Magical Night, screened within the Un Certain...  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Un Certain Regard

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne • Directors of Young Ahmed

"The child is more radical than the radicals"

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne • Directors of Young Ahmed

CANNES 2019: We met with the Dardenne brothers on the occasion of their 8th visit to the Cannes competition with yet another film, this time in the form of...  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

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