Interviews

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

8334 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 01/08/2025. 667 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 

Industry report - Animation

Xavier Rius Planas, Managing Director at Smartclip

Interviewed at the Cartoon Master in Murcia in April 2009, Rius explains the new forms of video-ads and the way it will be possible to generate revenues...  

“Choosing between the plague and cholera”

Nicolas Steil • Director

A tale of resistance and hiding during WWII in the mines of the Franco-Luxembourg border region. The French-language film is the directorial debut of...  

29/05/2009

Interview - European elections 2009

Gérard Onesta, Member of the European Parliament

Priorities for cinema for the next legislature: support to the distribution of films and authors' rights  

Interview - European elections 2009

Ruth Hieronymi, Member of the European Parliament

Priorities for cinema for the next legislature: authors' rights, MEDIA Mundus  

Interview - European elections 2009

Jacques Toubon, Member of the European Parliament

Priorities for cinema for the next legislature: reform of the European Institutions, regulation of the online distribution  

Interview - European elections 2009

Ignasi Guardans, ICAA Director

Priorities for cinema for the next legislature: organisation of the collecting societies  

Interview - European elections 2009

Gyula Hegyi, Member of the European Parliament

Priorities for cinema for the next legislature: safeguarding the European model for the support of cinema  

"An ideal raised to the status of an absolute becomes inhuman"

Michael Haneke • Director

The Austrian director reveals to journalists certain aspects of his method, whilst maintaining, much like his film, an element of mystery as to the possible...  

21/05/2009

Cannes 2009
Marco Bellocchio • Director

Cannes 2009 Marco Bellocchio • Director  

19/05/2009

“A very dark dream about guilt and sexuality”

Lars von Trier • Director

Cannes 2009 Lars von Trier • Director “A very dark dream about guilt and sexuality”  

18/05/2009

“Put a smile on our faces”

Cannes 2009
Ken Loach • Director

18/05/2009

"Prison as a metaphor for society"

Jacques Audiard • Director

Extracts from the press conference at the Cannes Film Festival 2009 where A Prophet won the Grand Prize a week later  

16/05/2009

"A passion for the real"

Andrea Arnold • Director

UK director analysed her realist approach at the press conference after the screening of her second feature, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival  

14/05/2009

Director of the Film Market

Jérôme Paillard

11/05/2009

Cannes 2009
Frédéric Delcor

Cannes 2009 Frédéric Delcor Center for Film and Audiovisual Arts - French Community of Belgium  

08/05/2009

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