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.

 
Jessica Sarah Rinland • Director of Collective Monologue

“A collective monologue can exist between humans and animals or between workers and institutions”

Jessica Sarah Rinland • Director of Collective Monologue

The Argentinean-British director talks about her interest in ecology and museum conservation, her relationship with her protagonists and her artistic references  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Edgar Pêra • Director of Telepathic Letters

“Lovecraft’s idea of alien gods that are indifferent to humanity mirrors the way AI can be seen”

Edgar Pêra • Director of Telepathic Letters

The pioneering Portuguese filmmaker discusses blending the worlds of Fernando Pessoa and HP Lovecraft, surreal imagery and the implications of AI in the...  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

Ala Eddine Slim • Director of Agora

“I think the world is divided into two categories: the oppressors and the oppressed”

Ala Eddine Slim • Director of Agora

With his third feature, the Tunisian director expands on the political themes of liberation and resistance through animal dreams  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Laurynas Bareiša • Director of Drowning Dry

“I’m not preaching, because I’m aware of my own limitations, but I want to show what the reality is”

Laurynas Bareiša • Director of Drowning Dry

We met up with the Lithuanian director, whose second feature tells the story of two sisters trying to rebuild their lives after a terrible accident  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Gürcan Keltek • Director of New Dawn Fades

“There is an element of psychogeography in all of my films”

Gürcan Keltek • Director of New Dawn Fades

The Turkish director discusses the creative evolution of his new movie, addressing the shift from documentary to fiction and the interplay of esoteric...  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Marco Tullio Giordana • Director of The Life Apart

"It's connected to the imagination of children - they do see things that grown-ups don't see"

Marco Tullio Giordana • Director of The Life Apart

The Italian director, also awarded a special Leopard at the Swiss festival, talks us through his fine new film, a family melodrama that spirals into magic...  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

Adele Tulli • Director of Real

“What interests me is understanding what is happening in our lives”

Adele Tulli • Director of Real

The Italian director tells us about the genesis of her film, but also about the relationship, at once cathartic and perverse, that our society has with new...  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Maxime Jean-Baptiste • Director of Listen to the Voices

“Fiction allowed us to distance ourselves from tragedy, so that reality didn’t overwhelm us”

Maxime Jean-Baptiste • Director of Listen to the Voices

The young filmmaker from French Guiana tells us about his closeness with his characters, how to represent violence and elaborate his own traumas  

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

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

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