Interviews

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

7565 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 24/05/2024. 586 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

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

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