Interviews

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

8442 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 16/09/2025. 650 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Nicolas Wadimoff • Director of Who Is Still Alive

"I experienced for the first time what it is to be with someone who experience a genocide, which is different from a war"

Nicolas Wadimoff • Director of Who Is Still Alive

VENICE 2025: The Swiss director talks about his moving film, in which nine Palestinian refugees share their stories in minimalistic surroundings that...  

09/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of I Want Her Dead

"This film is like a cinematic reality show"

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of I Want Her Dead

VENICE 2025: The director reconnects with his Calabrian roots with his mix of reality, fiction and theatre, which tells of the feud within a family: his...  

09/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Claire Simon • Director of Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

"The advantage of this idea was being able to portray the youth of today and hear Annie Ernaux's text"

Claire Simon • Director of Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

VENICE 2025: The French director tells us about her new documentary, in which she explores the impact of the work penned by the author, about a group of...  

09/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Pedro Souto, João Monteiro • Artistic directors, MotelX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival

“It’s about building a community that shares not only a passion for the genre, but also the emotions that come with being there”

Pedro Souto, João Monteiro • Artistic directors, MotelX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival

The head honchos of Lisbon’s flagship fantastical festival talk about cinematic curation in the Portuguese context and about questioning the bounds of...  

09/09/2025 | /Portugal

Ana Cristina Barragán • Director of The Ivy

“Ivy is a plant that is beautiful but also toxic; that duality really interested me”

Ana Cristina Barragán • Director of The Ivy

VENICE 2025: The Ecuadorian director discusses the sensory approach, working with actors and the formal decisions behind her film  

09/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Roderick Warich • Director of Funeral Casino Blues

“I’m always in between: I want to make horror films and I want to make Tokyo Story

Roderick Warich • Director of Funeral Casino Blues

VENICE 2025: The German director unpicks his Bangkok-set movie, a noir-tinged thriller in which love is stronger than life  

08/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Akihiro Hata • Director of Grand Ciel

“My political reflections have always been my primary creative drive”

Akihiro Hata • Director of Grand Ciel

VENICE 2025: The Paris-based Japanese director discusses his social drama which morphs into a thriller, starring Damien Bonnard in the lead  

08/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Robyn Citizen • Director of Programming & Platform lead, Toronto International Film Festival

“TIFF remains a bridge between press, industry and audiences”

Robyn Citizen • Director of Programming & Platform lead, Toronto International Film Festival

TIFF’s director of Programming and lead programmer of Platform speaks about how the Canadian festival looks to the wider world while balancing boldness,...  

08/09/2025 | Toronto 2025

Leonardo Di Costanzo • Director of Elisa

"It’s the mystery of evil that resides in the ordinary that struck me in that story”

Leonardo Di Costanzo • Director of Elisa

VENICE 2025: The Italian director tells us what pushed him to tell the story of a normal woman who has committed a horrible crime and looks for a road to...  

08/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Ildikó Enyedi • Director of Silent Friend

“I wanted to show how quickly our gaze changes”

Ildikó Enyedi • Director of Silent Friend

VENICE 2025: The Hungarian director gives us the low-down on her new feature, which centres on a ginkgo tree in three different timelines  

08/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Virgilio Villoresi • Director of Orfeo

“I chose to adapt Poem Strip because it offered the opportunity to bring together all of the techniques I have refined over the years”

Virgilio Villoresi • Director of Orfeo

VENICE 2025: The debuting Italian director talks to us about his love of cinema, and about the personal memories that influenced his film  

08/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Andrea Di Stefano • Director of My Tennis Maestro

“I’ve always wondered why films about sports only ever talk about the winners”

Andrea Di Stefano • Director of My Tennis Maestro

VENICE 2025: We talked to the Italian director about his new film, starring Pierfrancesco Favino as a failed tennis player  

08/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Pietro Marcello • Director of Duse

“It may play out 100 years ago, but it says a lot about our current times”

Pietro Marcello • Director of Duse

VENICE 2025: The Italian director discusses how he intended to pay tribute to one of his country’s most legendary and highly celebrated actresses from the...  

06/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

“Just as people know the name Anne Frank, they should know the name Hind Rajab”

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

VENICE 2025: After her lengthy standing ovation, the Tunisian director talks to us about her one-room-shot reconstruction of the events surrounding the...  

06/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Oscar Hudson • Director of Straight Circle

“This film is about nowhere and also about everywhere”

Oscar Hudson • Director of Straight Circle

VENICE 2025: The British director breaks down his feature and talks about how he is unable to take serious things seriously  

06/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

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