Interviews

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

8257 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 14/06/2025. 669 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Mara Prohaska Marković, Marko Grba Singh • Festival director and artistic director, Beldocs

“This year’s selection reflects our commitment to cinema as a form of resistance, reflection and awakening”

Mara Prohaska Marković, Marko Grba Singh • Festival director and artistic director, Beldocs

We sat down to talk to the executives of the Serbian festival about the 2025 edition, happening amidst extraordinary global and local circumstances  

22/05/2025 | Beldocs 2025

Akinola Davies Jr • Director of My Father's Shadow

"We wanted to make something that services us, our community and masculinity in general"

Akinola Davies Jr • Director of My Father's Shadow

CANNES 2025: The British-Nigerian filmmaker discusses his first feature, a film that is set over the course of one day, in which he plays with the concept...  

22/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Stéphane Demoustier • Director of The Great Arch

“He’s a mystery, very well-suited for a piece of cinema, I immediately thought”

Stéphane Demoustier • Director of The Great Arch

CANNES 2025: The French director talks about creating a monument to the unknown Danish creator of Paris’ Great Arch of la Défense  

21/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Guillermo Galoe • Director of Sleepless City

“In La Cañada, I felt a profound wound in people”

Guillermo Galoe • Director of Sleepless City

CANNES 2025: The Spanish director gives us the low-down on his film, shot in a slum on the outskirts of Madrid, in which a teenager stares out at a broken world  

21/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Sten-Kristian Saluveer • Head, Cannes Next

"The point for us in Cannes is not to talk about innovation, but to make it something you can feel and touch"

Sten-Kristian Saluveer • Head, Cannes Next

CANNES 2025: The expert discusses the platform, which has become a seismograph for the cultural shifts triggered by artificial intelligence, immersive...  

20/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

Hubert Charuel and Claude Le Pape • Director and co-screenwriters of Meteors

"Here, there’s a realisation of what we see and what we don’t see"

Hubert Charuel and Claude Le Pape • Director and co-screenwriters of Meteors

CANNES 2025: The filmmaker and his writing partner explain the ins and outs of a lovely film about friendship set in a French region which is part of the...  

20/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Óliver Laxe • Director of Sirât

"The solution is always to trust in the power of images — and in how they affect human metabolism"

Óliver Laxe • Director of Sirât

CANNES 2025: The Spanish filmmaker explains why his film was born to build a rite of passage for himself, and also invite the viewers to look inside themselves  

20/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Sergei Loznitsa • Director of Two Prosecutors

"It would be great if people from that time could watch my film"

Sergei Loznitsa • Director of Two Prosecutors

CANNES 2025: The Ukranian-born director discusses the novella that inspired his film, as well as the universal and the particular, the consequences of the...  

20/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Dominik Moll • Director of Case 137

“Can films change something, or do they only appeal to those who agree with what’s being shown?”

Dominik Moll • Director of Case 137

CANNES 2025: The French director takes on the Yellow Vest movement and the police brutality that ensued, and asks some uncomfortable questions  

20/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Chie Hayakawa • Director of Renoir

“What I tried to bring from myself was the myriad emotions I was experiencing that I was not able to put into words”

Chie Hayakawa • Director of Renoir

CANNES 2025: The Japanese director shares her thoughts about art, life and death, and describes how her movie parallels her own life journey  

20/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Hafsia Herzi • Director of The Little Sister

"What inspired me in the novel was the character of a young lesbian woman, a Muslim, at odds with her faith, who is searching for her identity"

Hafsia Herzi • Director of The Little Sister

CANNES 2025: The French filmmaker talks about why and how she adapted the novel by Fatima Daas, and what personal elements she brought to the film  

19/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Valéry Carnoy • Director of Wild Foxes

"I wanted a lot of nervousness, with just the right mix of violence and tenderness"

Valéry Carnoy • Director of Wild Foxes

CANNES 2025: The Belgian filmmaker explores subjects such as the injunction to be virile and the relationship with violence in his first feature film  

18/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Directors’ Fortnight

Pauline Loquès • Director of Nino

”I was interested in seeing how the banality of everyday life continues in an exceptional moment of a life"

Pauline Loquès • Director of Nino

CANNES 2025: The French filmmaker talks about the genesis of her first feature film and explains her quest to strike the right balance between a dramatic...  

18/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Kei Ishikawa • Director of A Pale View of Hills

“Right when we’re about to approach Mr Ishiguro, he goes and wins the Nobel Prize in Literature!”

Kei Ishikawa • Director of A Pale View of Hills

CANNES 2025: The Japanese director discusses the process of adapting the debut novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, the fruits of which have met with the author’s warm...  

18/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Alexe Poukine • Director of Kika

"In life, you can think you’re in a romantic comedy but then suddenly find yourself in a social drama, which you didn’t see coming"

Alexe Poukine • Director of Kika

CANNES 2025: The filmmaker chatted with us about her first fiction feature film, a comic drama inspiring laughs and tears about a woman in love and grieving  

17/05/2025 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

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