Exclusive Interviews with the Juries

Read all the interviews given by the members of the Feature Film Jury, as well as those with the Presidents of the Un Certain Regard, Cinéfondation and Short Film, and Caméra d’or Juries.

Jane Campion, Jury President: “Power is often a cover for vulnerability”
 

Carole Bouquet: “I have not lost the sense of wonder that I had as an actress starting out”

Sofia Coppola: “Music inspires me and influences my films. It breathes soul into them”

Leila Hatami: “When an actor makes a film without any artifice, there is less room for error”

Do-Yeon Jeon: “When I am acting, I don’t know in advance how I am going to react”

Willem Dafoe: “I like being the doer, not the person who is watching”

Gael Garcia Bernal: “Migration is the greatest adventure in life”

Jia Zhangke: “When I make a film, I try to be as sincere as possible”

Nicolas Winding Refn: “I’m not at all interested in perfection. What interests me is imperfection”

Pablo Trapero, President of the Un Certain Regard Jury: “What attracts me most in fiction is this really fuzzy boundary with reality”

Abbas Kiarostami, President of the Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury: “The quest for innovation has to take place in short films and in a director’s first films”

Nicole Garcia, President of the Caméra d’or Jury: ” The wonderful thing about the Caméra d’or is the emergence of a director.”