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.

 
Milad Tangshir • Director of Anywhere Anytime

“I wouldn’t just remake a timeless masterpiece – I’m not crazy”

Milad Tangshir • Director of Anywhere Anytime

VENICE 2024: The director explains how a regular bicycle can, for some people, mean the difference between survival or simply not making it  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Carolina Pavone  • Director of Almost Home

"I wanted to convey the feeling of fear that can grip you when you make the first move"

Carolina Pavone • Director of Almost Home

VENICE 2024: The former assistant director to Nanni Moretti reveals a few details about her feature debut, the story of a young musician who befriends a...  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Thomas Vinterberg • Director of Families Like Ours

“You could say that we inspired COVID, rather than the other way around”

Thomas Vinterberg • Director of Families Like Ours

VENICE 2024: The acclaimed director talks about his choice of subject, his creative process and whether there’s a Danish film wave still out there  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Alexandra Simpson • Director of No Sleep Till

“This wait for something bigger than you was something that I wanted to be palpable from the very beginning”

Alexandra Simpson • Director of No Sleep Till

VENICE 2024: The half-French, half-US filmmaker chats to us about hurricanes, Florida and finding the beauty in disaster  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Frédéric Farrucci  • Director of The Mohican

“I’ve always seen Corsica as a land of the Western”

Frédéric Farrucci • Director of The Mohican

VENICE 2024: The French filmmaker talks about the genre as a Trojan horse for a story told at a cracking pace and looking at the times, society, an island...  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti Extra

Luis Ortega • Director of Kill the Jockey

“When you take yourself too seriously, you fuck it all up”

Luis Ortega • Director of Kill the Jockey

VENICE 2024: In the Argentinian director’s film, life is dark, and that’s funny – as long as you don’t take it personally  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Bernhard Wenger • Director of Peacock

“I find passive main characters exciting – you rarely see them in films”

Bernhard Wenger • Director of Peacock

VENICE 2024: The Austrian helmer’s feature debut pokes fun at society’s excessive need for perfectly curated, albeit fake, personalities  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Andres Veiel • Director of Riefenstahl

“It is not just a finished life story, but a warning for the future”

Andres Veiel • Director of Riefenstahl

VENICE 2024: The German director discusses Leni Riefenstahl’s efforts to rewrite her own history while digging herself an even deeper grave  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Peter Kerekes  • Director of Wishing on a Star

“This film is not about sound or image; it’s about energy”

Peter Kerekes • Director of Wishing on a Star

VENICE 2024: Can spending your birthday under the right star constellation really help you reach your goals in life? The Slovak-Hungarian director tells us more  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Gianni Amelio  • Director of Battlefield

“I haven’t made a war film, but a film about war”

Gianni Amelio • Director of Battlefield

VENICE 2024: The veteran Italian director helps us interpret his film about the arrival of the fatal “Spanish flu” during the last year of the First World War  

01/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Anne-Sophie Bailly  • Director of My Everything

“In drama, humour is a kind of politeness towards the viewer”

Anne-Sophie Bailly • Director of My Everything

VENICE 2024: The French filmmaker evokes the mechanisms and influences of her parent-child duo film revolving around the question of disability and emancipation  

01/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño • Directors of Marco

“Sometimes, we don’t understand our main character, but we didn’t want to judge him or whitewash him”

Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño • Directors of Marco

VENICE 2024: The Basque helmers reveal their fascination for the real-life case underpinning their film, centring on a man who took lying to an...  

01/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Kohei Igarashi  • Director of Super Happy Forever

"Eternal happiness doesn't exist, but we are all looking for it nonetheless"

Kohei Igarashi • Director of Super Happy Forever

VENICE 2024: The Japanese director talks about his new film, which tells of the upheaval of unexpected grief and recalls the birth of a love affair at a...  

01/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Federica Di Giacomo e Chiara Francini  • Director and actress-producer of The Open Couple

"We wanted to figure out whether or not certain concepts would be called into question after 40 years"

Federica Di Giacomo e Chiara Francini • Director and actress-producer of The Open Couple

VENICE 2024: We chat about polyamory with the director and the producer of the documentary based on the 1983 play of the same name by Franca Rame and Dario Fo  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Amos Gitai • Director of Why War

“I would like to embrace the idea of the filmmaker or the artist as a healer”

Amos Gitai • Director of Why War

VENICE 2024: The Israeli director offers a kaleidoscopic film essay on war, fuelled by a historic exchange of letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

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