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.

 
Tallulah H Schwab, Crispin Glover • Director of and actor in Mr. K

“What is very important about the story is that it tells us about how people try to control and understand the world”

Tallulah H Schwab, Crispin Glover • Director of and actor in Mr. K

The director and star converse about their film and their mutual desire to let the audience interpret it for themselves  

16/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Platform

Edhem Fočo • Festival director, AJB DOC

“Since we are in the field all the time, we hear the people, and we feel their pulse”

Edhem Fočo • Festival director, AJB DOC

We sat down with the director of the Al Jazeera Balkans International Documentary Festival, which this year bears the motto "JUSTICE?" and focuses on Palestine  

13/09/2024 | AJB DOC 2024

Isabella Torre • Director of Basileia

"It was Aspromonte that inspired me: it is much more than a refuge of Mafia activity, which is what people usually know it for"

Isabella Torre • Director of Basileia

VENICE 2024: In the Italian director's feature debut, an archaeologist is searching for treasure in the rugged natural surroundings of the Calabrian...  

12/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Francesca Pirani • Director of Vakhim

"I don't reveal the events in advance; the viewer is by my side, as if it were all happening at that very moment"

Francesca Pirani • Director of Vakhim

VENEZIA 2024: The Italian director talks about her highly personal documentary, which follows the journey of a four-year-old boy who was adopted in Cambodia...  

12/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Quay Brothers • Directors of Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

"Schulz was a gift for the Polish language, because of his richness and the metaphors he used"

Quay Brothers • Directors of Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

VENICE 2024: The US directorial duo talk about their exploration of the themes dealt with in the mythopeic writings of great Polish author Bruno Schulz  

12/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman • Directors of Vittoria

“We didn’t know anything about adoption, Jasmine took us inside this vast and complex world”

Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman • Directors of Vittoria

VENICE 2024: The directorial duo told us about the making of their second feature film, which reconnects with a character from their debut movie to explore...  

11/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti Extra

Mladen Kovačević • Director of Possibility of Paradise

"There is a very loose connection to Dante in this film, to the Divine Comedy, which for me is the story of an existential crisis"

Mladen Kovačević • Director of Possibility of Paradise

VENICE 2024: The Serbian director paints the portrait of a diverse array of people in search of happiness on an idyllic island  

11/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Luciana Fina • Director of Sempre

"The Carnation Revolution constitutes perhaps the best moment in Portugal's history"

Luciana Fina • Director of Sempre

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks about her documentary, which revisits 25 April 1974 and bears witness to the process of building a new country  

11/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Fabrizio Ferraro • Director of Desert Suite

"It's a journey that's born of something we all feel, of the uncertainty inherent in changing our surroundings"

Fabrizio Ferraro • Director of Desert Suite

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks about his new film, in which a young man crosses Europe in search of a new Ithaca  

11/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Guillaume Senez • Director of A Missing Part

"I wanted to move towards something more lyrical, to find greater depth"

Guillaume Senez • Director of A Missing Part

The Belgian director is back with a new film, which sees him continuing to explore his favourite theme – parenthood – while relocating his work to Japan  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

Koya Kamura  • Director of Winter in Sokcho

"It’s not spectacular, it’s an intimate film"

Koya Kamura • Director of Winter in Sokcho

The French-Japanese director shares the adventure of his first feature film, which was shot in Korea and which stars Bella Kim and Roschdy Zem in lead roles  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Platform

Johanné Gómez Terrero • Director of Sugar Island

"Slavery and sugar are intrinsically linked"

Johanné Gómez Terrero • Director of Sugar Island

VENICE 2024: The Afro-diasporic director whisks the viewer away to the sugar-cane plantations where a young woman gets pregnant too early  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Mónica Taboada-Tapia • Director of Alma del desierto

"It was a terrible story, and I couldn't imagine it could happen in our century, on this planet"

Mónica Taboada-Tapia • Director of Alma del desierto

VENICE 2024: The Colombian director talks about her documentary around an elderly transgender woman who is struggling to obtain an ID document for herself  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Giuseppe Schillaci • Director of Bosco grande

"I wanted to make a film about the punk scene in Palermo, and he told me: 'I am the film'"

Giuseppe Schillaci • Director of Bosco grande

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks us through his documentary, focusing on Sergione, one of Palermo's main standard-bearers of the punk scene in the 1980s  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Philippe Reynaert • Senior consultant, Xanadu

“The public authorities’ responsibility today is to ensure the independence not of producers, but of productions”

Philippe Reynaert • Senior consultant, Xanadu

VENICE 2024: The expert unpacks key insights from the “A Reflection About the Future Purpose for Film and Audiovisual Policies” panel, held during the...  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Venice Production Bridge

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