Interviews

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

8509 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 13/11/2025. 642 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Damien Hauser • Director of Memory of Princess Mumbi

"Compared to when I used it in the movie, the AI ​​has improved a lot and it's even a little scary"

Damien Hauser • Director of Memory of Princess Mumbi

VENICE 2025: The Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker whisks us off to the year 2093, on the trail of a director who has to make a documentary about a devastating war, if...  

04/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World

"I try to tell the story of Lebanon today and its ups and downs through the story of a couple with two different worldviews"

Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World

VENICE 2025: The Lebanese director talks to us about his debut fiction feature, a love story set against the backdrop of a deeply scarred country, Lebanon  

04/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Lucrecia Martel • Director of Landmarks

“When you think of lands that are taken from indigenous people, you think of raw materials – but there is also the beauty itself that is stolen”

Lucrecia Martel • Director of Landmarks

VENICE 2025: The Argentinian director discusses her first documentary film, which was 15 years in the making  

04/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Maryam Touzani • Director of Calle Málaga

“There was a richness that I felt growing up, and I wanted to pay tribute to this community”

Maryam Touzani • Director of Calle Málaga

VENICE 2025: The director of The Blue Caftan speaks about bringing to the screen the unique beauty and complexity of her home city of Tangier  

03/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Venezia Spotlight

Stephan Komandarev • Director of Made in EU

“We were promised a bright future, but we ended up on the periphery of the periphery”

Stephan Komandarev • Director of Made in EU

VENICE 2025: The Bulgarian helmer elaborates on the sociopolitical message behind his latest feature, while also sharing insights into the development of...  

02/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Venezia Spotlight

Laura Samani • Director of A Year of School

"Men and women don’t speak the same language"

Laura Samani • Director of A Year of School

VENICE 2025: The Italian director tells us about her new film, which centres on a 19-year-old Swedish girl who finds herself being the only girl in an...  

02/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Nastia Korkia • Director of Short Summer

"The film was born from a need to reflect on what was happening in my country"

Nastia Korkia • Director of Short Summer

VENICE 2025: The director of Russian heritage talks about her feature debut, in which a little girl who is spending a quiet summer with her grandparents...  

02/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Yanis Koussim • Director of Roqia

“I write about my wounds”

Yanis Koussim • Director of Roqia

VENICE 2025: The Algerian director takes on his country’s trauma and delivers a personal horror story  

02/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Anders Thomas Jensen  • Director of The Last Viking

“I’m the only Danish director making films with Mads Mikkelsen who won’t get Oscar-nominated”

Anders Thomas Jensen • Director of The Last Viking

VENICE 2025: The filmmaker explains how, for his new feature, he tried to return to some basics in his storytelling  

02/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth  • Directors of Broken English

“We sat down with Marianne and told her that when we work on something, we don’t know what it’s going to be”

Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth • Directors of Broken English

VENICE 2025: The directorial duo discuss their film about British cultural icon Marianne Faithfull and how they wanted to avoid turning it into an obituary  

02/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

François Ozon • Director of The Stranger

"I like characters who are a bit mysterious, with an inner life"

François Ozon • Director of The Stranger

VENICE 2025: The French filmmaker discusses his adaptation of Albert Camus's famous novel, how he approached the opacity of the main character and...  

01/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Gianfranco Rosi  • Director of Below the Clouds

“Shooting in black and white has helped me to tell the story of a different Naples from the one in our imagination”

Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Below the Clouds

VENICE 2025: The Italian director tells us about his documentary, a journey through space, time and memory, between what Naples has been and what it could be  

01/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Šarūnas Bartas • Director of Laguna

"Everything we do is art"

Šarūnas Bartas • Director of Laguna

VENICE 2025: The Lithuanian director talks to us about his reflection on the circle of life and of nature  

01/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Evi Kalogiropoulou • Director of Gorgonà

“You have to fight for your power”

Evi Kalogiropoulou • Director of Gorgonà

VENICE 2025: It’s time for revenge, and societal change, in the Greek director’s feature debut  

01/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

László Nemes • Director of Orphan

“This backstory has haunted my family’s lives ever since it actually happened”

László Nemes • Director of Orphan

VENICE 2025: The Hungarian director found the main story and protagonist for his new film in his own family, but simultaneously drew on his own experiences...  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

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