Interviews

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

7569 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 25/05/2024. 583 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Miguel Gomes • Director of Grand Tour

"My film is almost like a joke, about men being so cowardly and women being so determined"

Miguel Gomes • Director of Grand Tour

CANNES 2024: The Portuguese filmmaker talks about his new film, a travelogue drama about colonialism, social divides and love  

25/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

Ariane Labed • Director of September Says

"Unconditional love in the family can be a safe place, but at the same time it can become manipulation"

Ariane Labed • Director of September Says

CANNES 2024: The Greek-French actress has talked to us about her first feature as a director, a mysterious and haunting tale of two sisters raised by a...  

25/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Jean-Christophe Meurisse • Director of Plastic Guns

“My characters are disguising their actual lives and trying to step into different ones, even if it will eventually destroy them”

Jean-Christophe Meurisse • Director of Plastic Guns

CANNES 2024: Wannabe detectives and murderers without a conscience seek each other out in the French director’s film – and predictably, mayhem ensues  

25/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu • Directors of Jim’s Story

"It's a melodrama that isn't fabricated, but simply comes from life"

Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu • Directors of Jim’s Story

CANNES 2024: The French filmmakers explain how they came up with their loose and excellent adaptation of Pierric Bailly's novel of the same name  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Cannes Premiere

Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel • Directors of Eat The Night

"The characters fight with their own means against this ambient depression which assails an entire era"

Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel • Directors of Eat The Night

CANNES 2024: The French filmmakers talk about their second feature, a daring hybrid work with a whiff of the end of the world about it  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Alain Guiraudie • Director of Misericordia

“As I delved deeper into it, I rediscovered how the Catholic religion is anthropophagous”

Alain Guiraudie • Director of Misericordia

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker talks about his new film, a mixture of genres revolving around secrecy, forceful desire, crime and Christianity in a small...  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Cannes Première

Mahdi Fleifel • Director of To a Land Unknown

“I’m always intrigued by what it means to have no place where you belong”

Mahdi Fleifel • Director of To a Land Unknown

CANNES 2024: The Palestinian-Danish director takes on the melancholy of exile as two Palestinian cousins get stranded in Greece  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Jessica Palud • Director of Being Maria

"This young woman spoke out and reported things, but she wasn’t listened to"

Jessica Palud • Director of Being Maria

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker spoke to us about her movie charting the tragic fate of actress Maria Schneider, who was left traumatised after shooting...  

23/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Cannes Premiere

Gints Zilbalodis • Director of Flow

“Creating a sense of hand-made artistry was crucial”

Gints Zilbalodis • Director of Flow

CANNES 2024: We sat down with the renowned Latvian animation director to discuss apocalyptic floods and domestic animals  

23/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Maisam Ali • Director of In Retreat

“I was trying to do something like a painting or a haiku"

Maisam Ali • Director of In Retreat

CANNES 2024: The Indian filmmaker talks about the multifaceted meanings of home, belonging and portraying the region of Ladakh in his debut film  

23/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | ACID

Noémie Merlant • Director of The Balconettes

“It’s like the city is screaming and falling apart at the same time”

Noémie Merlant • Director of The Balconettes

CANNES 2024: The French actress-writer-director breaks down her sophomore directorial feature, about three girlfriends who reunite under the scorching...  

22/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Midnight Screenings

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 The Story of 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 The Story of 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

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