Interviews

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

7804 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 26/09/2024. 609 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

Pavlo Ostrikov • Director of U Are the Universe

“I’m not sure what the future holds for Ukrainian cinema, especially sci-fi”

Pavlo Ostrikov • Director of U Are the Universe

The Ukrainian director talks about blending sci-fi with an emotional love story, and his preference for practical effects over digital ones  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Dani Rosenberg • Director of Of Dogs and Men

“I felt the camera was sometimes like a shield against reality”

Dani Rosenberg • Director of Of Dogs and Men

VENICE 2024: The Israeli director explains how he came to make his response to the 7 October attack by Hamas, and shares a strong plea for the war’s cessation  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Jan-Willem van Ewijk • Director of Alpha.

"I was interested in the concept of one person dominating another, while nature dominates everybody"

Jan-Willem van Ewijk • Director of Alpha.

VENICE 2024: The Dutch director talks to us about his Europa Cinemas Label winner, in which the unresolved relationship between a father and son is...  

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

Ciro De Caro • Director of Taxi Monamour

"The encounter between these two people is like a taxi, which takes you from one place to another, and then down each of their individual paths"

Ciro De Caro • Director of Taxi Monamour

VENICE 2024: The Italian director has won the Audience Award with his story of two women belonging to two different worlds but who share the same thirst for...  

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

Pupi Avati • Director of American Backyard

“My movie is the cheapest of all the Italian films at the festival”

Pupi Avati • Director of American Backyard

VENICE 2024: Well into his seventh decade as a filmmaker, the Italian cinema adventurer’s career choice has brought both pain and joy  

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

Olha Zhurba • Director of Songs of Slow Burning Earth

“The war is already part of our daily lives, and we, as artists, can't do anything else but portray it”

Olha Zhurba • Director of Songs of Slow Burning Earth

VENICE 2024: The Ukrainian documentarian discusses how she depicts the long-term effects of the Russo-Ukrainian War on her people  

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

Marianna Brennand • Director of Manas

"I thought that through fiction I could build a story that was both delicate and deep"

Marianna Brennand • Director of Manas

VENICE 2024: The Brazilian filmmaker, winner of the GdA Director's Award, talks about her film set in a community in the Amazon where the sexual abuse of...  

07/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Francesca Comencini • Director of The Time It Takes

“Paying public but also private homage to my father involved walking through fire”

Francesca Comencini • Director of The Time It Takes

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talked to us about the courage that was necessary to evoke her relationship with her father, filmmaker Luigi Comencini,...  

07/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Nader Saeivar • Director of The Witness

“The new generation wants to win using forgiveness and beauty”

Nader Saeivar • Director of The Witness

VENICE 2024: The Iranian director explains how he intended to commemorate the women’s movement and its non-violent forms of protest  

07/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti Extra

Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza • Directors of Sicilian Letters

“This is a dark comedy about the narcissism and the vanity of a real fugitive boss”

Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza • Directors of Sicilian Letters

VENICE 2024: We talked with the duo of Italian directors about the creation of their singular grotesque comedy  

07/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Dag Johan Haugerud • Director of Love

“You can have ideas and ideals that you don't necessarily manage to live up to”

Dag Johan Haugerud • Director of Love

VENICE 2024: The Norwegian filmmaker dives into the different ways one can experience intimacy  

06/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Lawrence Valin • Director of Little Jaffna

"At a certain point, I wondered where my place was"

Lawrence Valin • Director of Little Jaffna

VENICE 2024: The French filmmaker chatted with us about his first feature film, a detective film blending western and Kollywood styles, and his desire to...  

06/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

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