Interviews

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

8160 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 03/05/2025. 661 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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"It was important to try to use this story as a parable and give as little historical context as possible"
Giulia Amati • Director of Kristos, The Last ChildVENICE 2022: In the French-Italian director's documentary, Kristos is the last remaining child on a tiny...  
03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori
“Platforms carry the risk of homogenisation; we need to safeguard auteur cinema, research and experimentation”
Alessandro Amato • Producer, dispàrteThe young Italian producer spoke to us about the projects he’ll be bringing to the Croisette and the...  
11/05/2022 | Producers on the Move 2022/Italy
"I wanted this film to be a representation of reality, not a picture of it"
Stefano Amatucci  • DirectorNisimazine had a chance to talk to Italian director Stefano Amatucci, whose debut feature, Caina, had its...  
29/11/2016
“Our work is very much part of our daily life”
Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi  • DirectorsSAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Spanish directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi are taking their first turn behind...  
22/09/2017
“We need some tenderness to chase away our anxieties”
Gianni Amelio • DirectorMulti-award-winning director Gianni Amelio talks about his latest film, Holding Hands, fresh from its...  
24/04/2017
My generation is responsible for young people’s fragility
Gianni Amelio • DirectorThe director speaks about L'Intrepido, in competition at the Venice Film Festival. A film that divided critics  
05/09/2013
A journey into the memory of Camus
Gianni Amelio • DirectorThe First Man, FIPRESCI Award at the Toronto Film Festival 2011, makes its debut on Friday, April 20 in...  
17/04/2012
The China syndrome
Gianni Amelio • Director 

At the Venice Film Festival with The Missing Star07/09/2006
“I haven’t made a war film, but a film about war”
Gianni Amelio  • Director of BattlefieldVENICE 2024: The veteran Italian director helps us interpret his film about the arrival of the fatal...  
01/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition
“There are echoes of the present-day in my film about a homosexual poet’s trial in 1968”
Gianni Amelio • Director of Lord of the AntsVENICE 2022: In the Italian director’s eyes, the trial of Aldo Braibanti fifty years ago a is an...  
08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition
"I’m more naturally inclined to make thrillers"
Alejandro Amenábar  • DirectorSAN SEBASTIÁN 2015: Alejandro Amenábar has opened the San Sebastian Festival with Regression, an intense...  
18/09/2015
“Why can’t we go back to the emotions we felt at the cinema as children?”
Alejandro Amenábar • Director of La FortunaWe chatted with the Spanish filmmaker about to take San Sebastián by storm with his first TV series,...  
24/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Out of Competition
"Changing our minds is what makes us human"
Alejandro Amenábar  • Director of While at WarThe man behind smash hits such as The Others and Agora returns to historical period films with While at...  
22/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition
"The violence perpetrated against the film's protagonist is comparable with the brutality of the way the land is treated"
Marco Amenta • Director of AnnaVENICA 2023: The director discusses his film, which tells of the one-woman fight undertaken by a young...  
11/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori
"What interested me was the story of a woman fighting against powers stronger than she is"
Marco Amenta • Director of AnnaCineuropa met with Italian director Marco Amenta to talk about his project Anna, produced by Eurofilm and...  
21/10/2020 | Cinemed 2020 | Cinemed Meetings
“Film is interesting because it’s a window which lets us see inside characters’ minds”
Marco Amenta  • Director of Through the WavesThe Italian director speaks about his new movie, a psychological film noir which marks a total break from...  
30/09/2021 | Bif&st 2021

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