Interviews

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

7796 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 23/09/2024. 604 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

“My collaborators are the victims of a slow form of torture”

Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

The Iranian director fills us in on the background to his Cannes-awarded film as well as on the current political situation in Iran  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

“I like female characters who, a bit like Hitchcock’s, are hiding something underneath”

Pia Marais • Director of Transamazonia

The South African-born director tells us about how she grappled with the paradoxes of the Amazon rainforest and her love for ambiguous female characters  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Samir • Director of The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class Into Foreigners

“A film can create playful and emotional connections to bring people's stories closer to others”

Samir • Director of The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class Into Foreigners

The Swiss director reveals his sources, and his visual and thematic approach to his film addressing the history of Italian migrants in Switzerland  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

Richard Hunter • Director of Foul Evil Deeds

“The goal was to avoid saying what I think is good or bad, or pointing a finger”

Richard Hunter • Director of Foul Evil Deeds

The British director breaks down how he employed a mix of static and home-video aesthetics to ask important moral questions in his new film  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Olga Korotko • Director of Crickets, It's Your Turn

“I mock the patriarchy and machismo, but there is nothing to laugh about”

Olga Korotko • Director of Crickets, It's Your Turn

The Dubai-based Kazakh director believes that toxic masculinity and sexism can be battled with reason instead of force  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Willy Hans • Director of Skill Issue

“I like working with actors in this age group because their approach is very intuitive”

Willy Hans • Director of Skill Issue

We met with the German director whose feature film follows a group of young people drifting through a hot summer’s day  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Ramon and Silvan Zürcher • Director and producer of The Sparrow in the Chimney

"We often associate destruction with something negative, but sometimes it’s necessary for something healthy to take root"

Ramon and Silvan Zürcher • Director and producer of The Sparrow in the Chimney

The Swiss duo expand on their artistic universe, their passion for still-life, and cinema as a means for experimenting with alternative family ties  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Iva Radivojević • Director of When the Phone Rang

“I couldn’t imagine this film in a digital format”

Iva Radivojević • Director of When the Phone Rang

The Yugoslavian-born director recalls the collapse of her native country in her newest film  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz • Directors of Eight Postcards from Utopia, Sleep #2

“Cinema can incorporate all kinds of things and still remain cinema”

Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz • Directors of Eight Postcards from Utopia, Sleep #2

The director and the philosopher discuss their approaches to cinema, exploring the use of archival material, and the interplay between advertising and ideology  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

Bruno Deville • Director of Endangered Species

“We're human beings in crisis, in a world in crisis, and we're all looking for meaning”

Bruno Deville • Director of Endangered Species

The Swiss-based Belgian director discusses climate change and midlife crises, and how they relate to his new six-episode series  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

Bálint Szimler • Director of Lesson Learned

“We wanted to capture the essence of being a child”

Bálint Szimler • Director of Lesson Learned

The Hungarian director, who grew up in the USA but moved back to Hungary at the age of nine, can relate to the feeling of being an outsider  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Kurdwin Ayub • Director of Moon

“You can find a sister in another country, find common ground and help each other, no matter where you come from”

Kurdwin Ayub • Director of Moon

With her new film, shot in Jordan, the Austrian filmmaker tells a cross-border story of women's solidarity  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Nina Vindum Rasmussen • Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science

"Increased transparency would strengthen the sustainability of the sector in the long run"

Nina Vindum Rasmussen • Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science

The scholar breaks down on one of her recent journal articles, which examines how screen workers interact with streaming data despite widespread secrecy  

14/08/2024 | /Europe

Miguel Llansó • Director of Infinite Summer

"I wanted to have poetry in this film"

Miguel Llansó • Director of Infinite Summer

The director tells us about his latest movie, in which everyone is ready for transition  

14/08/2024 | Fantasia 2024

Sara Fgaier • Director of Weightless

"The possibility of radically changing your life after a loss has to do with memory"

Sara Fgaier • Director of Weightless

The experienced editor and producer tells us about her debut feature as director and the connection between memories and cinema  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

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