Interviews

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

8327 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 18/07/2025. 662 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Elene Naveriani  • Director of Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

“I hope her character is empowering for others”

Elene Naveriani • Director of Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

CANNES 2023: The Swiss-based director with Georgian origins speaks about their portrait of a mature woman that knows what she wants  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors' Fortnight

Claude Schmitz  • Director of The Other Laurens

"I wanted to make a film that was both a tribute and also critical and ironic"

Claude Schmitz • Director of The Other Laurens

CANNES 2023: The Belgian filmmaker talks about his meta and mischievous film noir that probes the end of patriarchy, and plays with gender codes and genres  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors' Fortnight

Martin Provost  • Director of Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe

"I have been at the heart of their lives for several periods”

Martin Provost • Director of Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe

CANNES 2023: The director explains why he has embarked on a long love story about the painter Pierre Bonnard and his partner Marthe  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Cannes Première

Rosine Mbakam  • Director of Mambar Pierrette

"Documentary filmmaking has allowed me to understand the way I wanted to make fiction films"

Rosine Mbakam • Director of Mambar Pierrette

CANNES 2023: The Belgium-based Cameroonian filmmaker talks about her film showing the daily life of a worker and mother who takes hold of her destiny  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors' Fortnight

Mohamed Kordofani  • Director of Goodbye Julia

"The friendship story in my film is a model for the political situation in Sudan, and for a possible reconciliation"

Mohamed Kordofani • Director of Goodbye Julia

CANNES 2023: The Sudanese director discusses his first feature, a film that strikes a balance between a political and cultural backdrop and a highly...  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

GoCritic! Interview: Ondřej Moravec  • Director of VR film Darkening

“People realize that VR work Darkening is not a game and that depression is a real topic”

GoCritic! Interview: Ondřej Moravec • Director of VR film Darkening

Ondřej Moravec's animated autobiographical VR documentary Darkening is an intimate exploration of the impact of mental illness and the struggle to find...  

23/05/2023 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2023

Liv Ullmann  • Main subject of A Road Less Travelled

“I was proud to do it – and even getting a toilet seat the size of a throne”

Liv Ullmann • Main subject of A Road Less Travelled

CANNES 2023: The celebrated Norwegian cinema legend is the main subject of an elaborate documentary about her life and work  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Cannes Classics

Justine Triet  • Director of Anatomy of a Fall

"The balance of her possible guilt and innocence hangs by a thread”

Justine Triet • Director of Anatomy of a Fall

CANNES 2023: The French filmmaker describes her new film, a successful journey into a very unique genre film  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Katell Quillévéré  • Director of Along Came Love

"I wanted to break the aesthetic codes of melodrama"

Katell Quillévéré • Director of Along Came Love

CANNES 2023: The director explains her approach to a 20-year period film in post-war France telling an atypical love story  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Cannes Première

Faouzi Bensaïdi  • Director of Deserts

“This is a film against close-ups”

Faouzi Bensaïdi • Director of Deserts

CANNES 2023: Wide open spaces are the clear protagonists in the Moroccan director's buddy movie-turned-love story  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Ramata-Toulaye Sy  • Director of Banel & Adama

"Everything had to follow Banel's emotional journey"

Ramata-Toulaye Sy • Director of Banel & Adama

CANNES 2023: The young filmmaker unveils the intentions of her first feature film, shot in Senegal and propelled directly into the festival's official...  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Molly Manning Walker  • Director of How to Have Sex

“Every single woman has gone through something similar, and we just don’t talk about it”

Molly Manning Walker • Director of How to Have Sex

CANNES 2023: Summer has never been more awkward, or felt more real, than in the British director’s film  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Kaouther Ben Hania  • Director of Four Daughters

"It was interesting to bring actors, like mirrors, face to face with real characters"

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of Four Daughters

CANNES 2023: The Tunisian director, in the running for the Palme d'Or for the first time, explains her unique approach, which blurs the line between...  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Nuri Bilge Ceylan  • Director of About Dry Grasses

"What neither time nor culture changes are the souls that are similar everywhere"

Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Director of About Dry Grasses

CANNES 2023: The Turkish filmmaker delivers some insights into his new film centered on a teacher feeling stuck in an isolated corner of Anatolia  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Ann Sirot & Raphael Balboni  • Directors of The (Ex)perience of Love

"If we were told that we’d have zero constraints for our next film... We'd go for it!"

Ann Sirot & Raphael Balboni • Directors of The (Ex)perience of Love

CANNES 2023: With this new film, the whimsical Brussels filmmaking duo confirms the hopes placed in their first feature, Madly in Life  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

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