Interviews

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

7801 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 25/09/2024. 609 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Carine Tardieu  • Director of The Ties That Bind Us

"Once we’ve gone beyond certain levels of attachment, there’s no going back"

Carine Tardieu • Director of The Ties That Bind Us

VENICE 2024: Carine Tardieu explains the intricate story in her film about family ties which go beyond blood and the effect of the passing of time  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Martina Parenti and Massimo D’Anolfi • Directors of Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries

“It is so difficult to distribute documentaries that, at the end of the day, their length doesn’t make much difference”

Martina Parenti and Massimo D’Anolfi • Directors of Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries

VENICE 2024: Cineuropa talked with the duo of Italian directors who told us how their film came to be, what’s hidden behind its title, and what unites the...  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Vojtěch Strakatý • Director of After Party

“I was inspired by the women around me and felt characters like them weren’t adequately represented on screen”

Vojtěch Strakatý • Director of After Party

VENICE 2024: The emerging Czech director discusses the interplay between personal inspiration and fictional storytelling, and his approach to blending genres  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti Extra

Hind Meddeb  • Director of Sudan, Remember Us

"Sudanese people are very inspiring because they have a passion for freedom"

Hind Meddeb • Director of Sudan, Remember Us

VENICE 2024: The French director talks about her documentary about the oppression in the African country and the resistance of a group of politically and...  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Rusudan Glurjidze  • Director of The Antique

"We have more power than politicians: with our voices, we can deliver many messages"

Rusudan Glurjidze • Director of The Antique

VENICE 2024: The Georgian director talks about her film inspired by the illegal deportation of thousands of Georgians that took place in Russia in 2006  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Milad Tangshir • Director of Anywhere Anytime

“I wouldn’t just remake a timeless masterpiece – I’m not crazy”

Milad Tangshir • Director of Anywhere Anytime

VENICE 2024: The director explains how a regular bicycle can, for some people, mean the difference between survival or simply not making it  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Carolina Pavone  • Director of Almost Home

"I wanted to convey the feeling of fear that can grip you when you make the first move"

Carolina Pavone • Director of Almost Home

VENICE 2024: The former assistant director to Nanni Moretti reveals a few details about her feature debut, the story of a young musician who befriends a...  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Thomas Vinterberg • Director of Families Like Ours

“You could say that we inspired COVID, rather than the other way around”

Thomas Vinterberg • Director of Families Like Ours

VENICE 2024: The acclaimed director talks about his choice of subject, his creative process and whether there’s a Danish film wave still out there  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Alexandra Simpson • Director of No Sleep Till

“This wait for something bigger than you was something that I wanted to be palpable from the very beginning”

Alexandra Simpson • Director of No Sleep Till

VENICE 2024: The half-French, half-US filmmaker chats to us about hurricanes, Florida and finding the beauty in disaster  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Frédéric Farrucci  • Director of The Mohican

“I’ve always seen Corsica as a land of the Western”

Frédéric Farrucci • Director of The Mohican

VENICE 2024: The French filmmaker talks about the genre as a Trojan horse for a story told at a cracking pace and looking at the times, society, an island...  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti Extra

Luis Ortega • Director of Kill the Jockey

“When you take yourself too seriously, you fuck it all up”

Luis Ortega • Director of Kill the Jockey

VENICE 2024: In the Argentinian director’s film, life is dark, and that’s funny – as long as you don’t take it personally  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Bernhard Wenger • Director of Peacock

“I find passive main characters exciting – you rarely see them in films”

Bernhard Wenger • Director of Peacock

VENICE 2024: The Austrian helmer’s feature debut pokes fun at society’s excessive need for perfectly curated, albeit fake, personalities  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Andres Veiel • Director of Riefenstahl

“It is not just a finished life story, but a warning for the future”

Andres Veiel • Director of Riefenstahl

VENICE 2024: The German director discusses Leni Riefenstahl’s efforts to rewrite her own history while digging herself an even deeper grave  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Peter Kerekes  • Director of Wishing on a Star

“This film is not about sound or image; it’s about energy”

Peter Kerekes • Director of Wishing on a Star

VENICE 2024: Can spending your birthday under the right star constellation really help you reach your goals in life? The Slovak-Hungarian director tells us more  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Gianni Amelio  • Director of Battlefield

“I haven’t made a war film, but a film about war”

Gianni Amelio • Director of Battlefield

VENICE 2024: The veteran Italian director helps us interpret his film about the arrival of the fatal “Spanish flu” during the last year of the First World War  

01/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

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