Interviews

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

7558 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 21/05/2024. 597 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Antoine Chevrollier • Director of Block Pass

"The only way for them to survive or to live is to get out"

Antoine Chevrollier • Director of Block Pass

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker spoke to us about his first feature film, which explores friendship, motocross and social determinism  

21/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Sergei Loznitsa • Director of The Invasion

"After finishing the film, I could see the face of the enemy in it in a way we had never seen before"

Sergei Loznitsa • Director of The Invasion

CANNES 2024: The Ukrainian filmmaker continues his country's chronicles and documents its struggle against the Russian invasion  

21/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Special Screenings

Boris Lojkine • Director of L’histoire de Souleymane

"The idea of a delivery boy on a bicycle seemed to be an incredible cinematic tool for capturing the energy of someone who is always on the move"

Boris Lojkine • Director of L’histoire de Souleymane

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker talks about his intense new film, set in the wake of an illegal immigrant in Paris, and awaiting the verdict on his asylum...  

21/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Rungano Nyoni, Susan Chardy • Director of and actress in On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

“It’s about how difficult it is to speak up”

Rungano Nyoni, Susan Chardy • Director of and actress in On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

CANNES 2024: The helmer and the star of this film, about a late uncle’s dark secrets coming to light, talk about being complicit in silence  

21/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Laetitia Dosch • Director of Dog on Trial

"You're always told that the stakes have to be clear, except that in life, it's never like that"

Laetitia Dosch • Director of Dog on Trial

CANNES 2024: The Franco-Swiss filmmaker explains why she has embarked on a film that is totally out of the ordinary, but highly masterful in its quirky...  

20/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Patricia Mazuy • Director of Visiting Hours

"We’re not familiar with the world of visiting rooms, where women are together but all alone"

Patricia Mazuy • Director of Visiting Hours

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker unpicks her film exploring the feelings which unfold between a rich upper-class woman and a working-class woman whose...  

20/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Louise Courvoisier • Director of Holy Cow

"Even if the social reality is difficult, that doesn't stop us from having lots of places of light and humour too"

Louise Courvoisier • Director of Holy Cow

CANNES 2024: The young French filmmaker recounts the genesis of her first feature, a refreshing coming-of-age film that plunges deep into the world of...  

20/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Christoph Gröner, Julia Weigl • Festival director/CEO/artistic co-director, and artistic co-director, Filmfest München

“We want to be perceived as the number-one platform for German filmmaking, both in Germany and internationally”

Christoph Gröner, Julia Weigl • Festival director/CEO/artistic co-director, and artistic co-director, Filmfest München

The artistic co-directors of the prominent Bavarian gathering offer a first glimpse of the upcoming edition of the festival, unspooling from 28 June-7 July  

20/05/2024 | Filmfest München 2024

Emanuel Pârvu • Director of Three Kilometres to the End of the World

"As a parent, you don't own your child, and the love is unconditional"

Emanuel Pârvu • Director of Three Kilometres to the End of the World

CANNES 2024: The Romanian director discusses his feature, in which a teenager's journey of self-discovery clashes with the traditional values upheld by his...  

19/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

Kostis Charamountanis • Director of Kyuka - Before Summer's End

"It is very healthy for filmmakers to experiment and find new ways to express a story"

Kostis Charamountanis • Director of Kyuka - Before Summer's End

CANNES 2024: The Greek director talks about his first feature, which follows a family sailing to a Greek island for their summer holidays and unexpectedly...  

19/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | ACID

Thierry de Peretti • Director of In His Own Image

"Film is an object that moves according to who is watching it"

Thierry de Peretti • Director of In His Own Image

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker deciphers his fascinating portrait of a woman and a group of friends caught up in the whirlwind of the Corsican...  

19/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Magnus von Horn • Director of The Girl with the Needle

“I decided to use this fear of mine and make a film out of it”

Magnus von Horn • Director of The Girl with the Needle

CANNES 2024: Taking the Danish child killings of the 1910s as his starting point, the Swedish helmer recreates a period Copenhagen inspired by collective memory  

19/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

Julien Colonna • Director of Le Royaume

"It’s important to show the machine of organised crime as one which results in death"

Julien Colonna • Director of Le Royaume

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker chatted with us about his first feature film, a fictional story about a father and a daughter on the run, which is...  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Paulo Carneiro • Director of Savanna and the Mountain

“Since I don't believe in conventional documentary anyway, I started to write the story as a fiction”

Paulo Carneiro • Director of Savanna and the Mountain

CANNES 2024: The Portuguese helmer breaks down his aesthetic concept and how he worked with the protagonists of his documentary-fiction hybrid  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Leonardo van Dijl • Director of Julie Keeps Quiet

“The challenge for me was to make the silence loud”

Leonardo van Dijl • Director of Julie Keeps Quiet

CANNES 2024: The director unpicks his first feature, an intimate portrait of a young tennis player who has to contend with her coach’s misfortunes as well...  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

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