Interviews

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

8443 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 18/09/2025. 647 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Jason Ryle  • Executive director, imagineNATIVE

“Programming is one of the most amazing, but also one of the most difficult, things about film-festival work”

Jason Ryle • Executive director, imagineNATIVE

The executive, artistic and managing director of the imagineNATIVE festival, Jason Ryle, talks about the submission and selection process, and the...  

20/05/2019 | Euro Film Fest

Guilhem Caillard | • Managing director, Cinemania

“Our funding system is a happy medium between US private and French public funding”

Guilhem Caillard | • Managing director, Cinemania

Guilhem Caillard talks about the organisation of side events, the financing of a film festival, programming and the use of social media to promote events  

20/05/2019 | Euro Film Fest

Anne Tallineau  • Executive director, Institut français

“We hope to give international audiences an idea of European values that are at the heart of European cinema”

Anne Tallineau • Executive director, Institut français

Anne Tallineau, executive director of the Institut français, talks about the aim and the work of the institute  

20/05/2019 | Euro Film Fest

René Louis Cacciuttolo • CEO, VRRoom

"Our goal is to meet many film festival programmers and organisers, producers and creators"

René Louis Cacciuttolo • CEO, VRRoom

CANNES 2019: We have met up with René Louis Cacciuttolo, CEO of VR-oriented media outlet VRRoom, at the innovation hub of the Marché du Film  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Marché du Film

Yohan Bouché  • CEO, Onirix

"We have to create a virtual cycle between venues, studios and viewers"

Yohan Bouché • CEO, Onirix

CANNES 2019: At the Marché du Film, Onirix CEO Yohan Bouché talks about advancing mass adoption of cinematic VR through premium and comfortable technology  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Marché du Film

Maciej Glowiak  • Project manager, Immersify

"It was great to be here and demonstrate our technologies"

Maciej Glowiak • Project manager, Immersify

CANNES 2019: We met up with Maciej Glowiak to talk about Immersify, a project providing cutting edge tools for the next generation of immersive media, at...  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Marché du Film

Bertrand Bonello  • Director of Zombi Child

"Films are also made for communicating with spirits"

Bertrand Bonello • Director of Zombi Child

CANNES 2019: French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello explains the thinking behind Zombi Child which was unveiled in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film...  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Hlynur Pálmason  • Director of A White, White Day

"I wanted to explore how it is to love and hate someone at the same time"

Hlynur Pálmason • Director of A White, White Day

CANNES 2019: Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason visits Cannes with his second feature A White, White Day, selected in the Critics' Week  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics' Week

Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts  • Directors of For Sama

"We wanted this to be the story of the people who were there"

Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts • Directors of For Sama

CANNES 2019: Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts discuss their documentary For Sama, selected as a Special Screening at the French festival after having...  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Special Screening

Jean-Yves Roubin  • Producer, Frakas Productions

"Genre cinema offers a lot of freedom in terms of form and discourse"

Jean-Yves Roubin • Producer, Frakas Productions

CANNES 2019: We met with Jean-Yves Roubin, founder of Frakas Productions, the co-producer of two films showcased in Cannes this year: Atlantics and Vivarium  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Marché du film

Ladj Ly  • Director of Les Misérables

"People tend to tell our story in our name"

Ladj Ly • Director of Les Misérables

CANNES 2019: We have met up with French director Ladj Ly, whose debut feature Les Misérables has been selected to compete for the Palme d'Or  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Levan Akin  • Director of And Then We Danced

“When it takes some four years to make a film, it needs to mean something”

Levan Akin • Director of And Then We Danced

CANNES 2019: With And Then We Danced, Swedish-Georgian director Levan Akin takes on his Eastern European roots with a vengeance  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Jessica Hausner • Director of Little Joe

“I try to describe the ambiguity of the way we perceive reality”

Jessica Hausner • Director of Little Joe

CANNES 2019: Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner tells us about her English-language film Little Joe, unveiled in competition in Cannes  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Mati Diop • Director of Atlantics

"My films draw inspiration from the absence of boundaries"

Mati Diop • Director of Atlantics

CANNES 2019: French filmmaker Mati Diop talks to us about her first feature film Atlantics, unveiled in competition in Cannes  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles  • Directors of Bacurau

“We wanted to make a kick-ass western adventure”

Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles • Directors of Bacurau

CANNES 2019: Cineuropa met up with Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, the directors of Bacurau, a film that defies any easy categorisation  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

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