Interviews

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

8385 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 31/08/2025. 655 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
László Nemes • Director of Orphan

“This backstory has haunted my family’s lives ever since it actually happened”

László Nemes • Director of Orphan

VENICE 2025: The Hungarian director found the main story and protagonist for his new film in his own family, but simultaneously drew on his own experiences...  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Nicolangelo Gelormini • Director of La Gioia

"More than being out of their comfort zone, the actors felt like they were allowed to extract something they had within themselves"

Nicolangelo Gelormini • Director of La Gioia

VENICE 2025: The Neapolitan director talks about his second feature, a dark fable about the forbidden relationship between a boy and his teacher  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Vladlena Sandu • Director of Memory

"We need to start talking about the rights of children in dictatorships and war zones"

Vladlena Sandu • Director of Memory

VENICE 2025: The Crimean-born, Chechen-raised director talks about her film, in which she wonders if it's possible to escape from the cycle of violence...  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Carolina Cavalli • Director of The Kidnapping of Arabella

“I like irony that borders on the absurd because it reflects human existence, how uncertain and contradictory it is"

Carolina Cavalli • Director of The Kidnapping of Arabella

VENICE 2025: We talked to the Italian director about non-places, the camp aesthetic and characters that reflect the confusion and disorientation of today  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Imran Perretta • Director of Ish

“I know exactly when I lost my innocence: it was when I was first dragged into the back of a police car”

Imran Perretta • Director of Ish

VENICE 2025: The British director shares the harsh personal resonance of his debut feature, whilst mulling the beauty of its outer-London locations  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Mihai Mincan • Director of Milk Teeth

“What I’ve tried to do is not make some kind of ‘autobiographical memory’ film, but rather convey a feeling of loneliness”

Mihai Mincan • Director of Milk Teeth

VENICE 2025: The Romanian director talks about blending historical reality, childhood memories and the weight of silence  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Valérie Donzelli • Director of At Work

“This film had to be honest”

Valérie Donzelli • Director of At Work

VENICE 2025: Freedom doesn’t come cheap in the French director’s new feature, but it’s still worth all the trouble  

30/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Jaume Claret Muxart • Director of Strange River

“It's an educational film: about desire and sexuality”

Jaume Claret Muxart • Director of Strange River

VENICE 2025: The debuting Catalan filmmaker talks to us about his first feature, shot on 16 mm while cycling along the Danube with his family, with sexual...  

30/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Tereza Nvotová • Director of Father

“What got me intrigued, even obsessed, was that moment when everything turns and you’re dropped into a parallel universe”

Tereza Nvotová • Director of Father

VENICE 2025: The Slovak director takes on a macabre subject, following a decent man and father into a spiral of horror, after a memory lapse changes his and...  

29/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Caroline Deruas Peano • Director of Stereo Girls

"I didn't want to have a bird's-eye view of adolescence, but to dive right into it"

Caroline Deruas Peano • Director of Stereo Girls

VENICE 2025: The French filmmaker explains her bold choices in her treatment of a story of teenage friendship that is as intensely joyful as it is terribly...  

29/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics' Week

Yegor Troyanovsky • Director of Cuba & Alaska

"My film is a portrait of friendship during wartime"

Yegor Troyanovsky • Director of Cuba & Alaska

The Ukrainian director reflects on the challenges of filming in an active war zone and the urgent need to preserve human connection through cinema  

29/08/2025 | Sarajevo 2025 | Documentary Competition

Dalija Dozet • Director of My Dad’s Lessons

"My idea was to explore what is left behind in the hundred hours of footage my father obsessively filmed"

Dalija Dozet • Director of My Dad’s Lessons

The Croatian director discusses her film, an intimate dialogue across time, as she uses the archive to reflect on memory, loss, and everything left unsaid  

29/08/2025 | Sarajevo 2025 | Documentary Competition

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of Mother

"I have always wanted to make Mother Teresa a punk icon"

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of Mother

VENICE 2025: We met up with the Macedonian-born, Belgian-based filmmaker to talk about her new film, an anti-biopic of Mother Teresa  

28/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Aleksandra Božović • Head of Industry, Montenegro Film Rendezvous

“We provide a kind of stability and enthusiasm to bring new life to European cinema”

Aleksandra Božović • Head of Industry, Montenegro Film Rendezvous

Cineuropa spoke to the industry head about the importance of exchange between the Montenegrin and broader European film industries  

28/08/2025 | /Montenegro

Renátó Olasz • Director of Stars of Little Importance

"My aim was to combine a poetic attitude with the rawness of reality"

Renátó Olasz • Director of Stars of Little Importance

Shot in stark black and white, the director's debut feature eschews traditional narrative structures in favour of mood, atmosphere and subtle gesture  

28/08/2025 | Sarajevo 2025 | Competition

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