Interviews

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

8235 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 24/05/2025. 667 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“I don’t feel comfortable in the virtual world”
Nuria Giménez • Director of My Mexican BretzelWith her first feature, My Mexican Bretzel, Nuria Giménez has garnered a sweep of awards at national and...  
11/12/2020 | /Spain
‘My films question the Italians’
Marco Tullio Giordana • DirectorThe cold-ish critical reception of Giordana’s Once You’re Born... in Cannes was compensated by its great...  
15/05/2005
"It's connected to the imagination of children - they do see things that grown-ups don't see"
Marco Tullio Giordana • Director of The Life ApartThe Italian director, also awarded a special Leopard at the Swiss festival, talks us through his fine new...  
19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition
“We absolutely have to adapt to the way the market is evolving”
Isabelle Giordano • Managing director, UniFranceWe chatted to Isabelle Giordano, the managing director of UniFrance, in the run-up to the Rendez-Vous with...  
16/01/2018
“We had hard-working and talented producers, all working for the sake of the film”
Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti  • Directors of SibelÇağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti, the directors of Sibel, talk to us about their feature, which...  
14/12/2018 | Cinémamed 2018
"Our main character is like Scheherazade in One Thousand and One Nights — she has to tell stories to survive"
Cağla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti • Directors of ConfidanteBERLINALE 2025: The Turkish-French directing duo discuss their new film, which follows a woman working in...  
26/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Panorama
"Juvenile detention centres are good for nothing"
Claudio Giovannesi  • DirectorCANNES 2016: Claudio Giovannesi’s teen love story Fiore was presented in the Directors’ Fortnight at the...  
18/05/2016
A Pasolini-inspired Alì, in between feelings and integration
Claudio Giovannesi • DirectorClaudio Giovannesi falls into fiction with Alì Blue Eyes, applauded by Rome’s International Film Festival...  
11/11/2012
Video - Brussels Film  Festival 2009
Claudio Giovannesi - DirectorItalian director presented La Casa Sulle Nuvole, which won the Special Jury Prize  
"Stories tell me how they want to be told"
Gipi  • DirectorVENICE 2018: Graphic novel author and director Gianni Alfonso Pacinotti, aka Gipi, is at Venice with his...  
01/09/2018 | Venice 2018 | Sconfini
"I wondered, in real life, what would happen to these characters after this story"
Delphine Girard  • Director of Through the NightVENICE 2023: The Belgian director's film revolves around an instance of sexual abuse, the ensuing...  
08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori
"I don’t film with a camera on my shoulder running around"
Elise Girard • DirectorUnveiled at Berlin, Strange Birds, the second feature film by Elise Girard, is being released today in...  
31/05/2017
"I wanted to show the end of mourning, and love returning"
Élise Girard  • Director of Sidonie in JapanVENICE 2023: The French filmmaker directs Isabelle Huppert in her third feature, portraying a trip to...  
05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori
Video interview - Cannes 2009
Hippolyte Girardot - director of Yuki and NinaHippolyte Girardot presented his film co-directed with Hiroshima-born Nobuhiro Suwa in the Directors'...  
"We live in the time where one click can ruin someone's life"
Dina Duma, Antonia Belazelkoska and Mia Giraud  • Director of and actresses in SisterhoodThe director of and the actresses in the Macedonian film, winner of the Special Jury Prize in the East of...  
30/08/2021 | Karlovy Vary 2021 | East of the West
"The subject of my work is this planet, which is not doing so well"
Jacques-Rémy Girerd  • DirectorThe founder of Studio Folimage, Jacques-Rémy Girerd, presented his latest film, Aunt Hilda!, at the Anima...  
10/03/2014

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